State Patrol crackdown on HOV violators snares more than 1,700 drivers in Puget Sound area
The State Patrol spent last week emphasizing HOV rules, with a team of troopers dispatched to enforce them across King, northern Pierce and South Snohomish...
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Former SDOT director Goran Sparrman takes job with private construction and engineering firm
Goran Sparrman was recently hired as a vice president and business development officer for HNTB, a massive Kansas City-based engineering and construction firm. He will...
Feds slot $100 million for Lynnwood light rail, but the money still isn’t secured
Sound Transit must still sign a formal grant agreement with the Federal Transit Administration before the agency can access the money, or the $100 million...
Sound Transit can keep collecting car-tab taxes as judge tosses lawsuit
Pierce County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Nelson took almost no time to issue her decision, and gave little rationale for her choice. She did, however,...
The region’s toughest red-light camera busted drivers 24,000 times last year
One red-light traffic camera in Des Moines gives out more than six times as many tickets as the busiest camera in Seattle. It’s the most...
First Avenue streetcar construction costs rise to $252M, long-awaited report finds
"We now know the real numbers on what this is going to cost and it's tens of millions more than what anyone was ever told,"...
The $930 million Move Seattle levy shortfalls are clearer, but the solutions aren’t
The Seattle Department of Transportation acknowledged problems with the levy in April, but they'd festered internally for about a year before that, a citizen oversight...
Driver alert: Seattle’s Third Avenue has new restrictions
The change is meant to help mitigate the upcoming traffic disaster when the Alaskan Way Viaduct shuts down. About 100,000 people board or get off...
Richard Russell was a jokester who complained about work, but Sea-Tac plane heist still baffles friends
A week after Richard Russell stole a Horizon plane from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed it on Ketron Island, there are few hints about why he...