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5 days ago · Eight years after Sound Transit 3 was approved by voters in 2016, Sound Transit is still trying to figure out where exactly to put a new station near the Chinatown-International District as part of the Ballard Link Extension (BLE). After the agency published the Draft West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions Draft Environmental Impact Statement in …
Seattle Transit Blog – Covering Transit and Land Use in the Greater ...
Nov 8, 2024 · I hear there’s an election today. This article will be updated as results come in. King County’s results will be on the county site or state site (other counties are also on the state site); the first batch usually comes around 8:15pm.The STB Election Committee made some endorsements on local transit and land use issues. Earlier today, the Urbanist reviewed what’s at stake in local and ...
Seattle Transportation Levy Passes – Seattle Transit Blog
5 days ago · On November 5th, Seattle voters passed the $1.55 billion 2024 Seattle Transportation Levy.. Transportation Levy Project Examples Transportation Levy Overview. The transportation levy spends money in the following 10 categories (with …
2022 – Seattle Transit Blog
Sound Transit is getting more serious about an East Link starter line until the defective plinths delaying the lake crossing can be replaced. We earlier covered Claudia Balducci’s original proposal and Sherwin Lee’s plea for good transfers.The delay of the lake crossing has cascading impacts on the Lynnwood extension, which will finish …
RapidRide Future and Prioritization – Seattle Transit Blog
Jul 23, 2024 · Following major cuts to RapidRide expansions due to budget constraints posed by the pandemic, the King County Council asked Metro in 2021 to, among other things, produce a “RapidRide prioritization plan” by the middle of this year. Metro published its plan on June 28, in which it chooses the next RapidRide lines to build as …
2021 – Seattle Transit Blog
Dec 28, 2021 · From the Governor’s blog:. Gov. Jay Inslee’s 2022 supplemental budget proposes significant funding to reduce poverty, increase housing and resources for homeless individuals, expand K-12 learning supports, invest in clean transportation and green economy, decarbonize buildings, and protect salmon habitat.. The governor released his budget in Olympia on Thursday and was joined by David ...
Community Transit Restructure – 2024 and Beyond
Sep 13, 2024 · Around Bothell, Community Transit will be deleting existing Route 105 with service supplanted by Swift Green Line and extending existing 30 minute peak / hourly weekend Route 120 to UW Bothell/ Cascadia.. Route 106, 120, 121 changes CT System map of Mill Creek and Bothell. There is also the new Route 121 and adjusting Route 106‘s hours though continuing with hourly frequency.
Thoughts on the Starter Line – Seattle Transit Blog
Apr 28, 2024 · The Link 2 Line opened yesterday with eight new stations on the Eastside from South Bellevue to Redmond Technology. Mike Lindblom and David Kroman in the Seattle Times have extensive coverage of the ceremony, ride experiences, and community reaction. Lindblom’s pre-launch list of the goods and bads of each station area is still useful as a guide. ...
Open Thread 23 – Seattle Transit Blog
Nov 4, 2023 · West Coast courts prohibit removing homeless people if there aren’t enough shelter beds for them. A Phoenix court orders the city to dismantle a homeless encampment it calls a “public nuisance ($)“. The city responds with hotel rooms and shelter beds — …
A single downtown tunnel is completely possible and provides the …
Mar 21, 2023 · It’s perpendicular, but serves the same Caltrain-downtown trips that the old route used to. The T and N used to come out of the Market Street tunnel and make a big U around Embarcadero to get to 4th and King, where the new tracks start (the N still does this).