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Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff meets with a management coach, who is paid $550 per hour, to help him get along better with his employees.

August 17, 2018 at 6:00 am

A $550-per-hour coach is helping Sound Transit’s chief get along with his employees

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff was hired for his get-things-done style, but employees have complained about his communication style. Enter Andrea Luoma of Port Angeles,...

August 15, 2018 at 3:36 pm

Free tourist buses now ply Seattle’s hectic waterfront

Lost on the waterfront? Tourists and commuters along Seattle's Alaskan Way can now take a free bus past the construction barricades and cab queues, all...

The escalator taking riders up and out of the University Station is packed with visitors to the extension on the first-day from the new Capitol Hill Station to the UW.

U Link launch day for Sound Transit’s light-rail from Capitol Hill station to the University Station at Husky Stadium on Sat. March 19, 2016

August 13, 2018 at 11:09 am

Sound Transit light-rail riders frustrated Monday morning by failed UW Station escalators

One rider reported that at least 200 people were waiting to leave the 90-foot-deep boarding station in what is at least the fourth major outage...

The Ballard Bridge opens to let a sand and gravel barge with a pusher tug through.

August 10, 2018 at 1:17 pm

Why the Ballard Bridge and its steel neighbors need cool-water baths in the summertime

Seattle's steel drawbridges will be tested, measured and watered more often in summertime, after August heat caused a 76-minute traffic shutdown at the Ballard Bridge...

The future 2024 light-rail line from the Angle Lake Light Rail Station in SeaTac (at left) to the future Federal Way Link Light Rail Station (which will start at the end of the track at far right in photo) is being ravaged by construction and land inflation – so that the $2.1 billion estimate will rise more than 20 percent. This adds another complication to the federal foot-dragging, in which Federal Way’s odds are fading to get $500 million in grants proposed in the pipeline. It may also cause the prospects to reach Tacoma by 2030 to get dimmer. Shot Thursday, July 26, 2018.

July 26, 2018 at 3:29 pm

Soaring land and construction costs push light-rail line to Federal Way over $2.5 billion

The $2.09 billion cost estimate has jumped by $460 million to $2.55 billion, executives reported at a board meeting Thursday. That’s a 22 percent spike.

The E Line RapidRide bus southbound on Aurora on its way to downtown Seattle. Amazon will contribute $1.5 million to increase public transit capacity this fall. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times, file)

July 26, 2018 at 10:20 am

Amazon gives $1.5 million to ease overcrowding on public transit to South Lake Union

The e-commerce giant’s money will allow 22 more trips daily that can haul 1,700 people, King County Metro Transit says.

July 20, 2018 at 4:47 pm

Hit-and-run charge filed against driver in Rainier Avenue cyclist’s death

Chrystal Barber is accused of driving into the bicycle lane along southbound Rainier Avenue South and striking cyclist Aaron Hayden.

A bus pulls out off the Convention Place Station in Seattle near the Washington State Convention Center (near top of frame, left of center) Monday, March 26, 2018.

The Seattle City Council is expected to soon vote on expanding the Convention Center one block to the north in what is now Metro’s bus base, Convention Place Station. That means all the buses that drop off thousands of Metro riders every day, and is accessed by it’s own ramp from the express lanes, will be demolished to allow the Convention Center to expand. The supporters of the expansion say it is needed to accommodate more money-making conventions.

July 20, 2018 at 6:00 am

Downtown Seattle bus station permanently closed. Here’s where to find the buses

With the closure of Convention Place Station, bus riders will instead use Ninth Avenue, where Metro Transit has installed new rain shelters, a northbound red...

July 17, 2018 at 7:38 pm

Bicyclist injured in Rainier Avenue hit-and-run dies

A bicyclist critically injured in weekend hit-and-run accident has died; King County Sheriff’s Office arrests woman, 51, who says she was driving.

The elevated portion of the new offramp under construction from northbound Highway 99 to the future South Dearborn Street is at center-right of frame (concrete road). Left of the offramp is the northbound Highway 99 tunnel entrance. This view of road construction and downtown Seattle is just north of the Colorado Avenue South overpass.
Shot Tuesday, January 2, 2018. 204720

July 17, 2018 at 6:23 pm

Tolling plan for Seattle’s Highway 99 tunnel cruises ahead

The cost will vary by time of day, with a proposed minimum of $1 overnights and weekends. Drivers can use the tunnel for free the...