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A typical congested morning commute south of the Bothell-Everett Highway along Interstate 405 displays $10 maximum tolls in the Express Toll Lanes. A new shoulder lane for northbound drivers between Highway 527 and Interstate 5 reduced afternoon travel times in its first week of operation. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times) — A typical congested morning commute south of the Bothell-Everett Highway along Interstate 405 displays $10 maximum tolls in the Express Toll Lanes. These commuters are headed toward Bellevue in this photo taken in January 2017. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

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Wed. March 20, 2019. UW student Vanessa Link cruising up a sidewalk ramp in Pioneer Square while taking a downtown tour with her motorized wheelchair to demonstrate the challenges of being wheelchair bound. 209628

Ask An Expert: Here’s what it’s like to get around Seattle for some people who use a wheelchair

Do you have a long commute? Here’s an illustrated look at one man’s Seattle-to-Skagit trek

GirlTrek’s co-founder and COO Vanessa Garrison, left, at GirlTrek’s second annual #StressProtest in Estes Park, Colorado, a weekend of radical self-care for Black women that hosted more than 400 attendees.

Ask an expert: How can Seattle make neighborhoods more accessible to walking?

Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Cory Crocker is a volunteer advocate for the U District community who has helped orchestrate a set of recommendations for how they envision mobility in the neighborhood working when the new light rail station opens in 2021. He’s standing with a growth model of the U-District on University Ave. 207958

Transfers at Husky Stadium were ‘horrendous,’ for some users. So the community devised a plan.

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Transit

Traffic flies past a Dick’s Drive-In in Kent, located at 24220 Pacific Highway South, as patrons start to line up for a noontime meal Wednesday May 8, 2019.

Dick’s hamburgers wins a deluxe break from Sound Transit in Kent, WA. 210209

Dick’s Drive-In in Kent should not become a train maintenance base, Sound Transit committee says

Roads

New signs on I-90 warn drivers of traffic backups at Highway 18 interchange

The two signs alert drivers to slow or stopped vehicles ahead in the right lane as heavy traffic exiting onto Highway 18 backs up onto the freeway.

Getting Around

A pilot project that built a bike lane along 108th Avenue NE in downtown Bellevue is now permanent. 210329

‘This works’: Downtown Bellevue bike lanes will stay put, more lanes planned

Technology

Postal Service tests mail shipments on self-driving trucks

TuSimple says a safety engineer and a driver will be on board to monitor the trucks during the two-week pilot program.