King County considers canceling transit worker raises amid pandemic
Amalgamated Transit Union ratified a three-year labor contract with 10% total raises in April, but King County Executive Dow Constantine wants to halt the pay...
Mike Lindblom
Staff reporter Mike Lindblom covers transportation for The Seattle Times.
Second Metro bus driver, ‘godfather of the North Base,’ dies of coronavirus
Mike Winkler, 71, died June 17 after several weeks fighting the disease, said Karla Mestl, his domestic partner.
Washington State Supreme Court hears arguments over car-tab tax cuts
A King County judge in February largely upheld the initiative but kept it on hold while the lawsuit seeking to overturn the measure was being...
SDOT plans new cables and carbon wraps to keep West Seattle Bridge standing
Rapidly-accelerating shear cracks, concentrated in four areas, caused city structures director Matt Donahue to close the bridge March 23.
West Seattle’s low bridge opens to general traffic late at night
Opening the bridge to all traffic overnight is a prelude to adding other groups to daytime crossings this fall, subject to automated camera enforcement.
Sound Transit needs better early planning to avoid cost overruns, audit finds
Zeroing in on change orders that amend construction contracts, the auditor found many of those orders were addressing mistakes that might have been avoided.
West Seattle Bridge can be fixed, SDOT says. But should it be?
The Seattle Department of Transportation also set a goal to dramatically slash driving in southwest Seattle to avoid congestion in residential neighborhoods.
A ‘missing link’ of future Burke-Gilman Trail, found in Ballard
People are beginning to walk, run and roll on a future Burke-Gilman Trail segment in Ballard, following two decades of plans and disputes over where...
What it's like to work near the cracked West Seattle Bridge VIEW
Traffic on West Marginal Way Southwest has nearly tripled, from 9,800 to 26,900 daily vehicles, since the West Seattle Bridge closed in March.