Kirk Hovenkotter
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Director of Transportation Choices Coalition | Not short for Kirkleton
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councilmember-amr.bsky.social
Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
This is big news: Sound Transit is proposing to launch a new overnight ST Express network, once Federal Way and East Link are both fully operational.

There would be three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SeaTac-Seattle, and Redmond-Seattle. Headways are still TBD, but expected to be around 30 min.
Overnight Service Proposal
Purpose & Goals
• Provide overnight bus service along Link lines and
core ST Express network.
• Serve riders and destinations with continuous or nontraditional need, such as hospitals and the airport.
• Combined with Metro’s late-night network, 85% of
Link station areas would be served all day and all
night.
Service Proposal
• Three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SEA-Seattle,
and Redmond-Seattle
• Service from approx. midnight to 5 a.m., 7 days/wk;
could also support Link maintenance window expansion
• Headways: 15-60min
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The man. The myth. The inspiration! 🙏🏻

More to come soon!
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Seattle transit riders are tearing themselves up over the 77 day wait until Federal Way Link opens
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goldy.horsesass.org
This got me thinking. Turns out Sound Transit relies on the MVET for 9.3% of its $4.4 billion of revenue in 2025, compared to only 1.4% from fares. That means car tab evasion is almost certainly costing ST far more revenue than fare evasion.
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I was today years old when I found out that in ‘93, SF voters passed Proposition AA, requiring their Mayor, Councilmember, & City staff to take transit 2 days a week.

So metal @sftru.bsky.social 🤘🏻
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
This morning @councilmember-amr.bsky.social called for the council's transportation committee to pursue some type of formal inquiry into the decision to rule out additional bus lanes on Denny Way's most congested blocks to get the Route 8 out of traffic.
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alexis4seattle.bsky.social
Today is the 1 year anniversary of the G Line opening. It feels like yesterday I ran out of my apartment to take this video! (The G stands for giddy because I was so excited)

Frequent transit is necessary for an accessible city that’s serious about its climate goals. Let’s make that a reality.
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Bug Doug Hausladen at YIMBYtown to do it!
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Modern, BAR, & Pepe? Plus there’s some cool parking garages
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
Seattle's long in-person public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan has officially kicked off.

First comments were from @ceceliablack.bsky.social: "As you're going through this Comp Plan, I would really hope you ask yourself what you would do if you were disabled tomorrow and you couldn't drive."
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sound-transit.bsky.social
A world first: trains under power are now running across the I-90 floating bridge ⚡

Last night marked a big milestone for the 2 Line’s Crosslake Connection - hear more from Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine on this historic evening for transit and the entire Central Puget Sound!
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sounderbruce.bsky.social
The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge!
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So I’m bringing champagne to the East Portal Viewpoint. Who’s joining?
typewriteralley.bsky.social
BREAKING: Sound Transit expects to conduct its first LIVE WIRE test on the I-90 bridge TONIGHT, at around 11pm.

"A single light rail vehicle will travel at incremental speeds between 10 and 55 mph to test power systems between Mercer Island and Judkins Park stations, including the I-90 bridge."
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
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It’s almost like we opened a huge transit expansion & passed major funding for bus service shortly before 2017