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Traffic clogs 42nd Street in Manhattan. New York City plans charge a toll to drivers entering the busiest stretches of Manhattan and spend the money on transit. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

New York City plans to toll its roadways. Could Seattle be next? | Ask An Expert

In our latest Traffic Lab Ask An Expert Q&A, we talked with Samuel I. Schwartz, a transportation consultant who helped develop New York City's congestion pricing plan.

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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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Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s thorny transportation issues, spotlights promising approaches to easing gridlock, and helps readers find the best ways to get around.

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A RapidRide King County Metro Bus drives into Seattle as snow falls Monday February 11, 2019. 209301

King County to consider offering free Metro bus rides during snow emergencies

Roads

UPDATE ON BERTHA–TUNNEL BORING MACHINE – SEATTLE – 091814
Workers at the entrance to the Highway 99 tunnel are installing steel ReBar and building forms to create a corbel that will support a concrete ledge and the northbound road deck.

We take a look at what work is progressing on the Highway 99 tunnel and it’s stuck tunnel boring machine called Bertha.

Missing evidence: Judge finds that tunnel contractors threw away pipe fragments that Bertha hit

Getting Around

Max Loring rides a LimeBike on the Burke-Gilman Trail through the University District in Seattle Wednesday, May 2, 2018.
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