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Sunday Movie: Pike Place Market With and Without Cars Pike Place Market with cars in 2022, and without cars in 2025. (Juan Rodriguez) Cars were removed from Pike Place in April due to a building construction project blocking a lane. They were supposed…

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New Post: Friday Roundtable: Boren Ave Route Idea seattletransitblog.com/2025/08/01/f...

New Post: Metro and Seattle Streetcar fares increasing on Sept. 1 seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/31/m...

New Post: Midweek Roundup: early Christmas gift seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/30/m...

Movies: Melbourne & Auckland Liveability in Melbourne, Australia. (CityNerd) The Seattle waterfront streetcars in 1982-2005 came from Melbourne. When an Australian friend who’d grown up in Melbourne visited, I took him o…

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Bellevue Arts Fair The Bellevue Arts Fair is this weekend if you’re looking for something to do. It’s a large free annual festival of artists’ booths and other artsy activities. It started Friday an…

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Friday Roundtable: Seafair Festival Weekend Transit The annual Seafair Festival Weekend is next week on August 1-3 at Genesee Park. Festivities include an air show, hydroplane races, and a classic car show. Event organizers are encouraging attendees…

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Midweek Roundup: transit to avoid traffic Elections 2025: Ballots are out for the August 8 Primary Election. Guides & Endorsements: WA Voters’ Guide (official), The Urbanist, Transportation for Washington, Progressive Voters Guid…

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New Post: Beyond the Freeway Edge: Center-Running BRT for Seattle’s suburbs seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/22/b...

Sunday Movie: Evanston Express & Empty Northwest Coast Why the Chicago L’s Evanston Express line isn’t really an express. (Car Free Keith) Why the Washington and Oregon coast has no large cities. (Geography by Geoff) This is an open thread.

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New Post: Friday Roundtable: Beacon Hill Safety Project seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/18/f...

New Post: Ridership Patterns for RapidRide G Line seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/17/r...

Midweek Roundup: beat the heat Transportation: How to beat the heat by taking Metro to cooling centers (Metro Matters). Community Transit recommends a few transit-accessible boba tea shops (CT). The Harrell administration quietl…

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New Post: Accelerated Federal Way Opening seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/13/a...

Sunday Movie: Trams! A love letter to trams. (Not Just Bikes) Trams in this sense mean surface light rail with transit-lane priority on arterials, like Link on MLK, or the MAX Blue Line outside downtown. Not stuck in c…

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Sunday Movie: Trams! A love letter to trams. (Not Just Bikes) Trams in this sense mean surface light rail with transit-lane priority on arterials, like Link on MLK, or the MAX Blue Line outside downtown. Not stuck in c…

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New Post: Race the L8 seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/12/r...

Friday Roundtable: Everett 4th Festival On the Fourth of July, Everett has a downtown parade, a festival at a waterfront park, fireworks in the evening — and two bus shuttles running every 5 minutes. I used it as an excuse to check…

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New Post: South Link Connections Phase 3 Proposal seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/10/s...

Midweek Roundup: Crosslake Update Local Transit News: Sound Transit’s new blog series, Crosslake Update, will provide monthly check-ins on the 2 Line’s connection to Seattle (The Platform). Additional coverage by The Se…

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Sunday Movie: The 30% Housing-Cost Metric The metric that housing should cost 30% of income is not based on any scientific estimate of people’s total living expenses. (Radical Planning) Instead it has an arbitrary history, and has ev…

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Friday Roundtable: Metro Trolley Wire Map While most people looking at the sky today are hoping to see fireworks, I prefer to look at overhead trolleybus wires. The map below outlines the location of all trolleybus wires in Seattle. This d…

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New Post: 4th of July Transit Service seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/03/4...

New Post: Midweek Roundup: fancy new trains seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/02/m...

New Post: A Bus Network for Access Above Demand seattletransitblog.com/2025/07/01/a...

Add Bus Service to First Avenue Ryan Parker had a recent editorial about adding bus service on First Avenue. I completely agree. There are many options and issues to consider. Center Running with Normal Buses Many of you are fami…

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Sunday Movie: Freeway River Restoration Turning an elevated freeway back into a river in Seoul. (Not Just Bikes) This is an open thread.

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New Post: Route 255 to downtown Seattle seattletransitblog.com/2025/06/28/r...

Friday Roundtable: Des Moines Trail A new trail segment has opened connecting the first two phases of the Lake to Sound Trail in Des Moines and SeaTac, as reported by Mara Mellits in the Seattle Times. The Times article has a map of …

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New Post: Fix the L8: Long W8s seattletransitblog.com/2025/06/26/f...