Sound Transit Begins Replacing Aging Escalators, Starting with Chinatown Station
Elevators and escalators at the Chinatown station will all be new by 2026 following phased replacements.
Sound Transit officials have approved the first phase of...
Sound Transit To Launch Digital Assistant and Accessible Wayfinding Tools Late This Fall
Sound Transit plans to deliver the first phases of two passenger-facing technologies late this fall. A new digital assistant tool will launch on mobile...
Sound Transit To Buy New Buses for Stride BRT, But Some Could Be Lemons
Sound Transit plans a mix of articulated and double-decker buses for Stride, all of which will be battery-electric.
Sound Transit is poised to move forward...
Sunday Video: Camera Enforcement as Lifesaving Technology
Traffic camera enforcement technology isn’t popular among motorists, but there’s a lot of upsides to camera enforcement of traffic regulations, such as speed limits....
Let the Robots Write the Ordinance
Planners have a lot to wrestle with as ChatGPT comes to code drafting.
“In the era of rapid urbanization and evolving urban landscapes, the development...
Sound Transit Plans Real-Time Arrival Soft Launch for Light Rail
Real-time arrival information may be coming to Link light rail in the next month or so, sorta. Sound Transit has begun testing of a...
The Urbanist Podcast: An Automation Discussion [Not] Brought 2 U by Chatbots
When Ray pitched the idea to me of doing an episode on automation, the first thing I thought was, of course. Automation, in no...
New “Digital Assistant” and Other Passenger-Facing Technology Ahead for Sound Transit
Sound Transit unveiled plans for a new "digital assistant" and passenger-facing technology program last week. The agency wants to build a single tool that...