Republicans Seek To Pin Seattle with Bertha Cost Overruns
The tunnel boring machine known as Bertha broke though the tunnel wall in Uptown at 11.40am on Tuesday (April 4th), completing its tunneling work and...
Is It Time To Put Lander Street Back On Hold?
In 2008, Seattle transportation officials made a tough decision: divert money that was previously allocated for a major corridor improvement project to another area...
WSCC Addition Illustrates The Difficulty Of Mitigating Freeway Trenches
At the first public benefits hearing of the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition, Seattle Design Commissioners danced around a tough truth: planning good public...
Sunday Video: 360 Degree View Of The SR-99 Tunnel
Love it or hate it, the SR-99 tunnel project is rapidly coming to completion after some traumatic fits and starts. Bertha, the sole tunnel...
Seattle Times Is Epically Wrong On Alleviating Traffic Jams
The Seattle Times Editorial Board (STEB) publishing bad transportation ideas is hardly a surprise, but, even for them, Sunday's editorial took their trolling and scapegoating to a...
Monday’s Traffic Meltdown Showed Downtown Freeways are Brittle
Monday was quite the ordeal. Around 10am a propane truck got into a collision and rolled over blocking an interchange between I-90 and I-5 near Downtown. Propane being...
The Beginnings Of A Post-Viaduct Aurora Ave N
While we've been deeply critical and reasonably skeptical about many aspects of the Viaduct replacement boondoggle, the best pieces of the flawed project to...
Sunday Video: Diverging Diamond Interchange Comes To Washington
The Washington State Department of Transportation has announced that they are planning on introducing the first Diverging Diamond Intersection (DDI) on I-5 at Marvin Road...