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Transportation

Happening Now: Sound Transit and Metro Integration Meeting

Local elects are meeting right now at University of Washington Station to talk about a new approach to integrated transit services throughout the Puget...

Car2Go takes over RideScout, a big win for dynamic urban mobility

A lot of the talk these days is about rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft when it comes to private urban mobility services while other...

Tweets of the Day: 2nd Avenue Bikeway

https://twitter.com/OfficeofMayor/status/509013473754243072 https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/508977315846828033 https://twitter.com/seabikeblog/status/509028750747377665 https://twitter.com/RebeccaBikes/status/508969452478541824 https://twitter.com/zachshan/status/509003653810638848 https://twitter.com/RebeccaBikes/status/508982737215049729 https://twitter.com/GordonWerner/status/508980457115893760 https://twitter.com/CascadeAnne/status/509003764335149056

Sunday Video: Get On Your Bike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtCpJTWpBh8 We always keep our eye out for dramatic and fun advertisements, especially when they come to bikes! And boy, does this deliver. Happy Sunday.

StopInfo Feature in OneBusAway Helps Visually-Impaired Riders Locate Stops

Image: (left) Where to access StopInfo within the OneBusAway iOS Application. (right) StopInfo's information screen. Many people rely heavily on visual cues to navigate their environments....

Comment of the Day: Boring Charts

One of The Urbanist's contributors made a very good suggestion to Sound Transit last week: @SoundTransit Please bring back these tunnel boring charts for the current tunneling...

University Link is 87.2% done, and Northgate isn’t far behind

As of July 30, Sound Transit's University Link Extension project was 87.2% complete, up 2.6% from our last update. And the Northgate Link Extension project (formerly...

Pronto Set for a Rainy Start

  Pronto Cycle Share, previously working under the name of Puget Sound Bike Share (PSBS), has secured sponsorships, station locations, and is set to launch...