Nathan Dickey

New Post: We Are Here Because No One Will Make A Decision seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/04/w...

If I streamed playing video games on twitch and talking policy, would y’all watch?

Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Live from a source inside the I-90 bridge:

Freeboard displacement tests at 0mph & 10mph, as well as cathodic protection, both passed!

Goodnight and congratulations, @sound-transit.bsky.social!

I hope to wake up to hear you made it to 55!

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…

New Post: Fixing Stride 3

I'm tuned into the Bainbridge Island planning commission, where a "public participation meeting" is being held on the 625 Winslow Way project.

Nearly every single commenter is speaking against building any affordable housing project on this site, regardless of how many units are included.

Speeding Up Routes 3 and 4 By KIAN NAEEMI The Harborview Medical Center area is a bottleneck afflicted with crushing traffic. Multiple roads funnel traffic east into James Street, where traffic then struggles onto I-5. At th…

New Post: Speeding Up Routes 3 and 4

New Post: Sound Transit Completes Live Wire Test on Floating Bridge seattletransitblog.com/2025/09/09/s...

Sunday Boring Movies Was hyperloop a scam? The Cascadia high-speed rail study compared hyperloop to other modes. (CityNerd) The Vegas Loop, which does exist, is unbelievably impractical and gets few riders. Ray rides i…

New Post: Sunday Boring Movies

Drawings of 190 foot light rail cars with more open gangways

Here at the Sound Transit board's rider experience committee meeting where the agency will be presenting the latest draft design concepts for its Series 3 light rail vehicles.

What's being presented are cars double the length of the current LRVs, expected to increase passenger capacity by 5-12%.

This intersection is so much better than it was when I first moved to Seattle it is insane. Thank you @spottnik.bsky.social for pushing for what I assume were contentious decisions here. Hope the whole of Rainier/MLK can see this level of improvement and more soon.

Yesterday at the Sound Transit Board meeting, I questioned the necessity of an additional tunnel downtown—from CID Station to Westlake—so we could save money and better tackle the agency's financial challenges.

I’m fully committed to delivering the light rail network our region deserves.

Sometimes I think about a Beacon Hill that isn’t cut off from Pioneer Square and the Stadiums by the interstate and its ramps.

Fall 2025 Service Change The Fall Service Change is upon us and most of the transit agencies in Puget Sound have updates to their network. These changes will take effect over the next few weeks, starting as soon as tomorro…

New Post: Fall 2025 Service Change

New Post: Federal Way Link to open on Dec. 6 seattletransitblog.com/2025/08/28/f...

The hottest interview in modern times.

New Post: Ridership Patterns for Link 1 Line seattletransitblog.com/2025/08/25/r...

New Post: Friday Roundtable: Seattle Street Railways in 1896 seattletransitblog.com/2025/08/08/f...

In an alternate reality, separated by ~8k votes in 2023:

Councilmembers Ron Davis, Maren Costa, Andrew Lewis, Alex Hudson, and Tammy Morales celebrate passing Alt 5 comp plan. Sara Nelson and Cathy Moore, sidelined, complain to each other about civility.

Even-year elections when?

In Medellín, Colombia, the creation of “green corridors” has lowered temperatures by 4°C in certain areas and encouraged the return of biodiversity.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

As if not showing up wasn’t bad enough, on the #Seattle Housing Committee agenda that Sara Nelson skipped yesterday? Mayor Harrell’s proposal to protect Seattleites from predatory home buying and bring the city in alignment with state law. Anyway, vote Dionne Foster #NomoreNelson

Seems like this is where the “future of the Democratic party” conversations should start

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

Age distribution of voters in New York City mayoral elections Includes 2025 mail ballots processed through Thursday morning 2025 Democratic primary The largest bloc goes in order from 18-24, then 25-29, then 30-34.

Wow. The single biggest voting bloc in the NYC mayoral primary was 18-24 year olds.

I’m not sure that has ever happened anywhere.

(📸 Vote Hub US via NYT)

Loved the fact that Katie Wilson gave comment today for the comp plan, with her child in her arms.

We need that energy. And more of it!

New Post: Brainstorming Fixes for ST3 seattletransitblog.com/2025/06/23/b...

New Post: Fix the L8: Route 8 Bus Lanes seattletransitblog.com/2025/06/23/f...

“The initiative took effect at the beginning of 2021, with the implementation of a 0.1% sales tax in King County.“