Highway 99 tunnel tolls could range from $1 to $2.25, depending on time of day
The state wants to keep tolls as low as possible to keep drivers from peeling off and entering snarled Seattle streets, while still raising enough...
Mike Lindblom
Staff reporter Mike Lindblom covers transportation for The Seattle Times.
Homeless hurt most by Metro’s fare-enforcement program, new King County audit says
“Transit cannot determine whether its model of fare enforcement makes sense, in terms of costs or outcomes, or identify ways to improve it,” a new...
Delay of Seattle’s Fourth Avenue bike lane disappoints cycling advocates
Cycling supporters say Mayor Jenny Durkan’s new administration is breaking past promises by postponing Fourth Avenue and Pike-Pine bike lanes.
Sound Transit says stalled escalators might be used as stairs — under rare circumstances
Transit managers suggested a more flexible policy in response to the March 16 incident at UW Station, when both downward escalators from the mezzanine to...
Sound Transit settlement will subsidize Uber and Lyft rides to Mercer Island transit center
Mercer Island will spend up to $226,900 in taxpayer funds to provide discounted Uber and Lyft rides from its wooded neighborhoods to the island’s often-packed...
Seattle’s Highway 99 tunnel could open to traffic in October
The road decks are finished, so final utility work and safety tests remain until the Highway 99 tunnel opens this fall.
Viaduct rubble can fill Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle City Council decides
City Council members were convinced preserving the Battery Street Tunnel, for future park or other use, would cost tens of millions of dollars.
Gun-control rally, viaduct closure and sign replacements to complicate weekend traffic
The Alaskan Way Viaduct will undergo its routine and maybe its last semiannual inspection, scheduled from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m....
New federal budget would likely keep money flowing to Lynnwood light rail
The budget bill in Congress keeps funding available for huge transit projects, such as a $1.2 billion contribution for Sound Transit's Northgate-to-Lynwood line to serve...