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New Post: Midweek Roundup: The Shoup Doctrine
Midweek Roundup: The Shoup Doctrine
Local Transit News: Election season is ramping up: here’s how the two candidates for King County Executive differ on the future of light rail (The Seattle Times, $) King County Councilmember …
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New Post: Ridership Patterns for King County Metro Route 75 seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/13/r...
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New Post: Sunday Movie: Melbourne
Sunday Movie: Melbourne
Holiday service Monday, October 13: Metro, Sound Transit, Community Transit, Pierce Transit, Seattle Streetcars, Vashon and West Seattle water taxis, and the Washington State Ferries are on regular…
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks to advocacy from @nondriver.bsky.social and many others, SDOT and WSDOT have implemented short term improvements to make Judkins Park station easier to access. Long term improvements are in the works, but still a few years away.
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 9d
New Post: Judkins Park Station Access Improvements seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/06/j...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 7d
New Post: Midweek Roundup: Community Crossroads
Midweek Roundup: Community Crossroads
Tonight, 6-8pm: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is hosting “Community Crossroads” at El Centro de la Raza in Beacon Hill. The event will feature a panel discussion and community engagement…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 7d
New Post: ST Express 2026 restructure
ST Express 2026 restructure
Sound Transit released its 2026 service plan proposal with an ST Express restructure and survey for feedback until November 7th. Last week ST previewed the changes in a Rider Experience and Operati…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 8d
New Post: Sound Transit Proposes Night Owl Service seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/06/s...
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New Post: Judkins Park Station Access Improvements seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/06/j...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 10d
New Post: Sunday Movie: Trails Near Link
Sunday Movie: Trails Near Link
Bob (bobco85) ranks every Link station on its access to a regional bicycle trail. His focus is on biking and regional trails, so he doesn’t mention some smaller trails and parks that are with…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 11d
New Post: We Are Here Because No One Will Make A Decision seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/04/w...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 12d
New Post: Friday Roundtable: Union Street Bus Lane seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/03/f...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 13d
New Post: Ridership Patterns for Sound Transit Route 522 seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/02/r...
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New Post: Midweek Roundup: traditional system
Midweek Roundup: traditional system
Next Wednesday, October 8, 6-8pm: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is hosting “Community Crossroads” at El Centro de la Raza in Beacon Hill. The event will feature a panel discussion and …
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 16d
New Post: Ridership Patterns for King County Metro Route 5 seattletransitblog.com/2025/09/29/r...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 17d
New Post: Sunday Movie: Walking at Pike Place Market & to School
Sunday Movie: Walking at Pike Place Market & to School
CityNerd on the Pike Place and Pike Street pedestrianizations, interviewed by Kenji López-Alt. (CityNerd) Why Americans don’t walk to school anymore. It’s about the sidewalks. (Evan Edi…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 19d
New Post: Friday Roundtable: Week Without Driving seattletransitblog.com/2025/09/26/f...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 21d
New Post: Midweek Roundup: controversial amendments
Midweek Roundup: controversial amendments
Local Transit News: Construction of RapidRide I is set to begin this fall (Metro Matters). After ventilation issues shut down light rail multiple times ($) over the past week, Sound Transit’s have …
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 24d
New Post: Sunday Movie: Copenhagen & Canadian Maritimes
Sunday Movie: Copenhagen & Canadian Maritimes
Copenhagen’s automated metro has been running for 20 years. (dronthego) It has 4 lines, each running every 3-6 minutes and operating 24/7. Ridership is an average of 344,000 per day. Two line…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 26d
New Post: Friday Roundtable: Sounder Turns 25 seattletransitblog.com/2025/09/19/f...
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · 28d
New Post: Midweek Roundup: growth, gains, and greatness
Midweek Roundup: growth, gains, and greatness
Local Transit News: Sound Transit Outlines Promising Everett Link Cost Reductions, Bleaker Seattle News (The Urbanist). STB article in the works. Seattle eyes electric cargo bikes for greener deliv…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · Sep 14
New Post: Sunday Movie: SLU and the L8
Sunday Movie: SLU and the L8
CityNerd looks at South Lake Union, its walkability and bicycle lanes, the notoriously unreliable route 8, the wide stroads, and Big Tech’s hidden motives for “colonizing” downtow…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · Sep 13
New Post: Fixing Stride 3
Fixing Stride 3
Sound Transit is in the early stages of building Stride 3, a new bus rapid transit service. It will run along SR-522 and Northeast 145th Street between Bothell and Shoreline South/148th Station. Ad…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · Sep 12
New Post: Friday Roundtable: Ecotopia Transit
Friday Roundtable: Ecotopia Transit
Excerpts from the 1975 novel Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Twenty years earlier in 1955, California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the US to form a sustainable environmentalist utopia. Since…
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · Sep 12
New Post: ST Rider Experience Meeting 9/4
ST Rider Experience Meeting 9/4
I was going to Uwajimaya on September 4th for a routine shopping trip. I got off a 14 bus at Union Station, when right in front of me was a sign for a Sound Transit board meeting. So I went inside …
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Seattle Transit Blog @seattletransitblog.com · Sep 10
New Post: Midweek Roundup: historic test
Midweek Roundup: historic test
Bruce Englehardt (photographer, wikipedian, and former STB contributor) posted photos of Sound Transit’s historic live test 2 Line across Lake Washington. More photos (The Seattle Times, $) a…
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