Shortly after Seattle and Metro finally got together to make bus-rail transfers adequate at Mt. Baker, the City of Lynnwood has now relented to make transfers at their Transit Center a little less arduous: Route 196 began serving two new stops on 196th Street at 48th Avenue in Lynnwood [Tuesday]. The stops are near the Fred Meyer complex [...]
Matt Yglesias had a great short post on why passenger-miles-travelled is a poor metric for measuring the greenness of a mass transit system: The whole idea of trying to talk about which city’s mass transit system is greenest in terms of emissions per passenger-mile is terribly flawed. Just think of it in terms of cars. Driving [...]
Tomorrow, from 5 to 7 PM, at Greenwood Public Library, SDOT is hosting an open house to discuss a program of bus stop improvement and consolidation on Greenwood between 87th St and 105th St. Similar to the recent Ballard stop consolidation and improvements, this program arises from SDOT’s Bridging the Gap funding for small transit [...]
I was all set to slay Sound Transit for leasing 103 parking spaces in Edmonds for $150 per month each, following a news cycle of recriminations over high operating costs. Park-and-rides are necessary evils, good money after bad, and all that. But when I sat down and worked out the numbers, I found that it [...]
Next Thursday, Bellevue will host an open house and scoping meeting on its newly-launched Downtown Livability initiative (.pdf), which is expected to address a range of topics, from building height limits to street-level pedestrian amenities. While the City is still in the early stages of pre-scoping, there’s a fairly comprehensive list of analysis areas online (including [...]
Metro asks riders to help speed up RapidRide. PubliCola rounds up last week’s zoning meetings, with more fireworks than usual. Pierce Transit measure seems to be dead. State rail planning workshops overflowing; new session Nov. 29th in Seattle. Please RSVP. Report from the Federal Way light rail open house. Mayor McGinn’s office considering ads around [...]
As part of partnership more than a year in the making, on Thursday the Sound Transit board approved $2 million in funding to study rail transit connecting downtown to Ballard. This is joined by up to $800,000 from the City of Seattle. Sound Transit’s funding will go to study of modes in exclusive right of [...]
Whenever I tell someone I work for Super Glue Corporation they almost always reply, “HOW FUN!” and I say, “YEP, IT IS” Super Glue products are fun; the people who use them are fun and even our employees are fun! … Super Glue Corporation employees enjoy being creative! This was very evident at our “Spooky [...]
Now there is a doctor for your car. Cars get less efficient as they age. The FD-47 Fuel Doctor is a device that conditions the electrical system of your vehicle to be more efficient. When the electrical system is working better, the … Continue reading →