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Starting August 29, King County Metro and Sound Transit will be revising routes on the Eastside. These changes are primarily due to the full 2 Line opening in March 2026. Overall, this restructure is focused on reducing redundant service with the 2 Line while improving frequency and reliability. The Fall 2026 restructure also includes routes … Continue reading "Fall 2026 Service Change: East King…
Transportation: More headlines after the break. Land Use & Housing: This is an Open Thread.
Earlier today, Brent White wrote the 500,000th comment on a Seattle Transit Blog article. Seattle Transit Blog wouldn’t be the same without you: our readers and commenters. Thank you for reading and discussing the latest transit news, route proposals, and ridership data with us since 2007. To celebrate this milestone and the incredible community that … Continue reading "Join us for Seattle Transit…
Starting August 29, King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Pierce Transit will be making changes to bus routes in south King County and Pierce County. Most of these changes are in response to the Federal Link Link Extension that opened in December 2025. Service changes in east and north King County will be discussed in … Continue reading "Fall 2026 Service Change: Pierce County and South King…
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, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Peterborough, and Trois-Rivières at 200 mph. It’s currently in planning. Toronto-Montreal … Continue reading "Sunday Movie:…
At the Sound Transit Board System Expansion Committee meeting on Thursday, the agency shared a series of updates on the upcoming West Seattle Link Extension. The grand opening for the 3.9 mile extension from SODO to Alaska Junction has slipped from 2032 to 2035. This delay is due to longer than expected construction time for … Continue reading "Friday Roundtable: West Seattle Link Update"
Correction, 8/12 11:30am: We retract the previous statement about a train derailing and have updated the paragraph below with a comment from Sound Transit. We regret this error. After someone crashed their car into a barrier and pushed it onto the tracks along MLK Way on Monday evening, a southbound train attempted to use the … Continue reading "Midweek Roundup: ban rental junk fees"
King County Metro has shared an updated high-level design of the RapidRide R Line and is asking the community for feedback. The R Line will travel between Rainier Beach station and downtown Seattle on Rainier Ave when it opens in 2032. First envisioned in the 2015 Levy to Move Seattle, work on this route was … Continue reading "RapidRide R Line Project Update"
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.
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 until January. Currently three temporary bus stops have been established on adjacent streets: Sound … Continue reading "Bellevue Transit Center Bus…
