Over the past two decades, the City of Seattle, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Port of Seattle, ...

Was hyperloop a scam? The Cascadia high-speed rail study compared hyperloop to other modes. (CityNerd) The Vegas Loop, which ...

Bruce Englehardt (photographer, wikipedian, and former STB contributor) posted photos of Sound Transit’s historic live test 2 Line across Lake Washington. More photos (The Seattle Times, $) ...

I was going to Uwajimaya on September 4th for a routine shopping trip. I got off a 14 bus at Union Station, when right in front of me was a sign for a Sound Transit board meeting. So I went inside ...

CityNerd looks at South Lake Union, its walkability and bicycle lanes, the notoriously unreliable route 8, the wide stroads, and Big Tech’s hidden motives for “colonizing” ...

By KIAN NAEEMI The Harborview Medical Center area is a bottleneck afflicted with crushing traffic. Multiple roads funnel traffic east into James Street, where traffic then struggles onto I-5. At ...

Sound Transit is in the early stages of building Stride 3, a new bus rapid transit service. It will run along SR-522 and Northeast 145th Street between Bothell and Shoreline South/148th Station.

Biking the new Seattle waterfront and East Marginal Way with Greg Spotts, former SDOT director. (Best Side Cycling) Biking the Vancouver Seawall Trail. (City Beautiful) It goes 28 km (17 miles) around ...

Excerpts from the 1975 novel Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Twenty years earlier in 1955, California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the US to form a sustainable environmentalist utopia.

A tale of two cities. Redmond city planning led to massive TOD around Downtown Redmond and Overlake Village stations, and expedited the Link planning. (Yet Another Urbanist) ...

The first ever bus routes. (The Tim Traveler) Hint: They’re in France and have to do with Blaise Pascal. Three good things about Metro buses and ST Express by a visitor. (Trains are Awesome) ...

Recent Transportation Headlines at The Urbanist: ...