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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...

Transit riders enter and exit a King County Metro RapidRide B on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 in the Bellevue neighborhood of Crossroads. Since 2010, this area registered the biggest increase in bus commuting in King County.

August 6, 2018 at 2:42 pm

King County Metro named nation’s top public transportation agency

The American Public Transportation Association picked Metro for the honor based on 12 criteria, including safety, efficiency, maintenance and financial management.

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.

A streetcar picks up passengers on Broadway, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. SDOT undersold the future costs of operating the new streetcar route, which is under construction.

July 25, 2018 at 5:54 pm

Seattle has ordered streetcars much bigger and heavier than the old ones — but is that a problem?

The city of Seattle has known since last year that there could be problems with how its new streetcars will fit into existing facilities. But...

A streetcar sits idle while its operator is on break at the S. Jackson St. terminus, with utility construction in progress for the new streetcar route in the background, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. SDOT undersold the future costs of operating the new streetcar route, which is under construction. 205610

July 24, 2018 at 3:17 pm

Seattle’s new streetcars may be too big to fit tracks, maintenance barn, mayor’s office says

The Seattle Department of Transportation ordered 10 new streetcars in the fall, at a cost of $52 million, as it planned to link the two...

An Atkinson Construction worker sprays water to control the dust as a Liebherr 950 tunnel excavator machine removes dirt from the top of Sound Transit’s tunnel under downtown Bellevue. The Tunnel is approximately one-third mile long, over 27 feet high and 34 feet wide. The tunnel broke through under Bellevue City Hall late this week. The length of the tunnel runs directly under 110th Avenue Northeast. The tunnel took about 15 months to complete using the Sequential Excavation Method and broke through five months faster than projected. The East Link of light rail is due to open in 2023.
Photographed on July 20, 2018. 207101

July 20, 2018 at 8:29 pm

An early look at the Bellevue light-rail tunnel

Employees and machines from Atkinson Construction finished digging Sound Transit’s future light-rail tunnel in Bellevue this week from East Main Street to Bellevue Downtown Station...

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...

An Amtrak train derailed and fell off of a bridge and onto Interstate 5 near Mounts Road between Lakewood and Olympia Washington Monday December 19, 2017.

July 10, 2018 at 3:25 pm

‘Everybody hated that curve’: Amtrak engineer told of worries before December crash south of Tacoma

National safety board calls out the “diffusion of responsibility” by four rail agencies that didn’t challenge an unsafe curve design of the track near DuPont...

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