Midweek Roundup: busiest summer

Seattle Transit Blog 8/19 12:00A Nathan Dickey

Transportation: SDOT is proposing to scale back Pike Place s pedestrianization pilot this winter; the Seattle Street Alliance proposes an alternative (The Urbanist). Another round of WSLE station area design surveys by SDOT is open , closing on...

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Seattle Transit Blog 8/18 5:13A Michael Smith

Pierce Transit Route 500 bus manually edited to show 500000 comments! on the headsign. Earlier today, Brent White wrote the 500,000th comment on a Seattle Transit Blog article. Seattle Transit Blog...

Fall 2026 Service Change: Pierce County and South King County

Seattle Transit Blog 8/17 2:38A Michael Smith

Pierce Transit Route 500 and Sound Transit Route 574 at Federal Way Downtown station. Starting August 29, King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Pierce Transit will be making changes to bus routes in...

Sunday Movie: Seattle Difference & Density Politics

Seattle Transit Blog 8/16 12:00A Mike Orr

Seattle is the opposite of every other US city. (Safety First) Is urbanism inherently left wing? (Oh the Urbanity!) (Warning: The end contains a Canadian rant on US policies.) The Alto high-speed rail mentioned in the video will connect Toronto,...

Midweek Roundup: off the rails, again

Seattle Transit Blog 8/12 2:35A Michael Smith

Someone crashed their car into a barrier on MLK Way and pushed it into the trackway. (SDOT Traffic Camera via William Holland on Bluesky ) On Monday evening, Link experienced its second derailment this month . After someone crashed their car into...

Sunday Movie: DC Streetcar & Small Apartments

Seattle Transit Blog 8/9 12:00A Mike Orr

Why the DC Streetcar failed. (Climate and Transit) Why small studio apartments are proliferating. Seattle is mentioned twice. (Stewart Hicks) Musical interlude: Crazy Downtown by Allan Sherman, 1965. This is an open thread.

Bellevue Transit Center Bus Relocations

Seattle Transit Blog 8/8 10:35A Mike Orr

The eastern half of Bellevue Transit Center is closed for Stride S1 and S2 construction, so several bus stops are relocated to adjacent streets. The current phase will last until October. Then the western half of the transit center will close...

Friday Roundtable: Celebrate Lake Washington Boulevard

Seattle Transit Blog 8/7 3:00A Michael Smith

Seattleites walk, run, and roll along Lake Washington Boulevard. (Michael Smith) Over the past three months, thousands of Seattleites have enjoyed a car-free section of Lake Washington Boulevard (LWB)...

August 2026 Primary Election

Seattle Transit Blog 8/5 8:30A Nathan Dickey

Preliminary first-count results released yesterday. Coverage by KUOW , by The Urbanist , by The Stranger , and by The Seattle Times ($). King County s results are here (PDF) ; statewide results are accessible here . First-drop preliminary results...

Midweek Roundup: August Adventures

Seattle Transit Blog 8/5 8:03A Nathan Dickey

First-drop election results after the headlines. Service changes are coming at the end of August! Summary articles are in the works. Headlines: Op-Ed: Federal Transportation Policy Is Growing Unhinged Under Trump (The Urbanist) Full Ballard Link...

Derailed train shuts down Link service downtown

Seattle Transit Blog 8/2 7:52A Michael Smith

Derailed Link train at CID station last night. (Gene Pencil via Cortana on Bluesky ) Late last night, an empty Link train derailed while turning around using the pocket track at International...

Sunday Movie: Amsterdam’s War on Cars

Seattle Transit Blog 8/2 12:00A Mike Orr

In 2019 Amsterdam committed to removing 10,000 street parking spaces in 5 years to make a more liveable city, repurposing the space for sidewalks, bike lanes, and transit. Local residents were enthusiastic after they were removed. Now Amsterdam...

Midweek Roundup: go it alone

Seattle Transit Blog 7/29 12:00A Nathan Dickey

A battery bus served Kitsap Transit s Route 220 in early July ( Zack Heistand ). Kitsap Transit is steadily electrifying its bus fleet. Cartoonist Brett Hamil still thinks about the driver who drove...

Sound Transit addresses recent post-World Cup service disruptions

Seattle Transit Blog 7/28 12:16A Sherwin Lee

Lines for the Link shuttle at Capitol Hill during the 7/9 disruption, by Nick Sattele (Bluesky) Since smashing ridership records following its blockbuster round-the-clock service during the FIFA World...

Sunday Movie: Manila Jeepneys & London Bike Paths

Seattle Transit Blog 7/26 12:00A Mike Orr

Manila s jeepneys and emerging metro rail network. (Evan Edinger) Evan Edinger and Not Just Bikes tour London s bike path network. They compare it to a decade ago and to The Netherlands. Musical interlude: Via con Me (It s Wonderful) . 1950s Rome...