New Post: Friday Roundtable: 2025 Ridership Data seattletransitblog.com/2026/05/01/f...

I think the Seattle Art Museum should face an actual backlash for erasing the queer identities of artists while trying to maintain its flagship status in an incredibly queer city.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

In Olympia, Intercity Transit is launching a redesigned network next week. The new network includes Thurston County’s first permanent BRT-style route, 130 new stops, and 25 new routes (that replace 16 current routes). seattletransitblog.com/2026/04/27/h...

It is embarrassing to watch the rest of the world innovate while we struggle to fund basic transit grants and fight off freight interference. We are making a choice to be a second-class nation in transportation. It’s time to choose differently. www.governing.com/in-the-weeds...

Just for context, Coexist is melting down over the mayors office announcing a return to the very successful 2021 Bike Weekends program under Mayor Durkan.

I think this description can be shortened to max thinks this is "degenerate art" The capacity to recognize that art you dislike still has artistic value and that all art has some level of moral value is important if you want to avoid reactionary modes of thought

People are literally moving to Issaquah so their kids have safe places to bike but as a city we still apparently aren't sure if we should build safer streets. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

We should celebrate every Earth Day by announcing bus lanes

"It seems that reliability, not frequency, is the No. 8’s problem", wrote @fchi.bsky.social when Route 8's frequency was improved from 30min to 15min. "Will the extra No. 8 buses help, or will they just stack up 2 and 3 deep during rush hour?" 19 years later, SDOT is finally going to Fix the L8.

New Post: Seattle Rallies to Save Ballard Rail seattletransitblog.com/2026/04/20/s...

In response to Sound Transit considering a truncated Ballard Link extension, hundreds of Seattleites marched from Ballard to Smith Cove. “Save Ballard rail, don’t stop short” they shouted along the walk. Full story: seattletransitblog.com/2026/04/20/s...

fremont bridge when?

Incorrect wayfinding signs are a growing pain for Seattle’s transit system and should be corrected as soon as possible. Incorrect signs are, at best, confusing and, at worst, a barrier to using transit. seattletransitblog.com/2026/04/17/f...

Seattle might actually leading the pack when it comes to planning transportation for World Cup attendees.

I like that photos like this show that population growth does not automatically equal traffic-geddon

The Seattle Times forgot to give Katie Wilson an intensely flattering front page retrospective on her first 100 days, I wonder what is different about this administration.

In-depth, detailed interview with Interim CEO @tiffanimc.bsky.social about where SSHD is at — “Despite all of the interest in Vienna’s social housing, there’s really only one American city that is seriously seeking to copy this model whole cloth.” www.remappingdebate.org/article/soci...

The Mayor's Office just confirmed with me that the plan is for Bicycle Weekend closures to start around 7pm Friday night and extend through Monday morning. The days of one sunset ride along an open Lake Washington Boulevard per weekend look to be in the past.

Redmond is a model for suburban development near a Link station.

Intercity bus routes are an often overlooked part of our transit system. In WA, most routes are run by private operators. WSDOT subsides a few essential routes, including a new route opening this Spring between Spokane and Pasco, via Moses Lake. seattletransitblog.com/2026/04/10/f...

Northbound MLK Way is down to one lane near Dawson St. During rush hour, this causes a traffic jam that can be measured in miles. 0.0 miles, to be exact.

This is so, so well-articulated.

It has to be demoralizing to be preparing your testimony for Monday, asking for your neighborhood to be downzoned, and then read the Mayor is set to quadruple the plan you oppose.

Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine just announced that 205,000 riders boarded trains on the opening day of the Crosslake Connection, a number that's second only to the Super Bowl Parade.

Finally, a Sound Transit station naming scheme that gives the proper respect due to the dozens of downtowns and city centers served by Link light rail's 2 lines. I can't shake the feeling they forgot one but... Nah must be my imagination. I think that's all of them.

Oh my god. The Klondike Gold Rush park is appealing the Pioneer Square Preservation Board's decision to allow a piece of artwork in front of King Street Station, intended to highlight the art gallery on the third floor. They actually want "other board approved changes" made recently looked at too.

It is so wild for a Governor to continue to pretend county and city bridges don't exist, even though the inability to fund maintenance on those facilities is baked into state policy. WA has WAY more than 80 bridges that are more than 80 years old.

Just got off a standing-room-only eastbound 2-Line train which remained standing-room-only heading to Bellevue. Impressively fast adoption.

How it started vs how it went vs how it soon will have had gone vs how it’s going

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

The new Yesler Way protected bike lane is OPEN. This is a new protected connection for people biking and scooting between the Waterfront and Seattle Ferry Terminal to Seattle's downtown bike network. Our crews sent us some photos. Info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...

New Post: TCC Light Rail Town Halls

Sound Transit’s first ever overnight ST Express route is underway!

No Kings only trains

New Post: Crosslake Link Starts! seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/27/c...

New Post: A sneak peek at the Crosslake Connection seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/27/a...

New Post: MASS Coalition Letter to Mayor Wilson seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/26/m...

New Post: Crosslake Connection: 50 Years in the Making seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/23/c...

6 days until we can ride light rail on a floating bridge, 6 years until we can ride a red trolleybus on Rainier Ave.

Would you like: West Seattle Link or South Kirkland-Issaquah. Seattle Center or Smith Cove. Or option three: everybody gets a stub.

The TLDR of the last 80 years of transportation policy.

The first freeway median Link stations open on 3/28 in Judkins Park and Mercer Island. I-90 and its ramps consume a lot of Judkins Park station’s walkshed. SDOT, WSDOT, ST, and Metro have worked to make accessing the station easier and safer for people walking, biking, and taking transit.

New Post: Judkins Park Station Access Guide seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/16/j...

The most obvious idea in Seattle city-making history is working. Surprise, surprise.

New Post: Friday Roundtable: cherry blossom season seattletransitblog.com/2026/03/13/f...

A great way to stop the proliferation of non-historic elements would be to ban (or heavily toll) any car manufactured after 1970…

This one’s for the dreamers, the ones who aren’t afraid to say “why not” when they say it can’t be done. We dare to dream of a better, more fair, more just, and more prosperous state. And then we work. Like. Hell. #waleg

While 60% of the Seattle Transit Measure funds more daily transit service, it also invests in building better access to transit. Here's an example: new bus stop improvements, built in-house by SDOT crews, serving Route 65 in Lake City and Routes 124 and 125 in Delridge.

What's notable to me about these challenges to #waleg incumbents (Sabio-Howell taking on Pedersen, Ron Davis taking on Gerry Pollet, Rep. Cindy Ryu taking on her seatmate Sen. Jesse Salomon, etc) is these are well-connected political insiders mounting the challenges. Not radical outsiders.