Traffic Lab

Traffic Lab
The new Highway 99 tunnel is scheduled to open in early February. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
The new Highway 99 tunnel is scheduled to open in early February.

How can drivers get to downtown during the viaduct closure? We answer that question and more

We asked for your questions, and more than 600 readers responded. This is the second in a series of Q&As based on those questions.

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

Honggang Li installs a solar-powered device along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake Forest Park Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Li is part of University of Washington team that is testing an app-based system where bicyclists and motorists receive phone alerts when their paths converge at an intersection. 208428

Can an app help avoid bike-car collisions on the Burke-Gilman Trail? UW students are testing it

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

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff speaks to the media about work being done so that light rail trains can travel over the I-90 floating bridge (in background) Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Light rail trains will begin running over the middle lanes of the I-90 floating bridge in 2023. Building light rail across a floating bridge is a world’s first achievement. Innovative engineering has created a track bridge that will compensate for six ranges of lake motion. When the trains start running, it will take about a minute to cross the floating bridge. Construction on the floating bridge is part of the East Link project that will extend light rail 14 miles from downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue and the Overlake area of Redmond via I-90, with 10 new stations. Drivers will not see work being done until around 2019 because the work being done now is underneath the bridge, in the floating pontoons that hold up the bridge. After the pontoons are retrofitted with one million feet of cables, tracks will be laid.

Sound Transit CEO Rogoff in line for $16,000 performance bonus

Roads

Got a question about the viaduct and new Highway 99 tunnel? Ask Seattle Times reporters in a live Q&A

On Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m., Traffic Lab reporters Mike Lindblom and Michelle Baruchman will answer your questions about the old viaduct and new tunnel in a Facebook Live Q&A.

Getting Around

Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Traffic story about numbers of riders, car drivers and bike commuters in the downtown core. This is looking south down 3rd Ave. in downtown Seattle. 208702

How did you commute in 2017? Read how you stack up with other Seattle commuters

Technology

Hailing the future taxi: Drone-car mashup model takes flight

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A scale model of a flying drone-car drove and hovered across an Amsterdam exhibition hall Tuesday, providing a glimpse of what could be the future of urban mobility. The "Pop.Up Next" prototype drone, being developed by aviation giant Airbus, automaker Audi and the Italdesign design house is made up of three separate...  VIEW