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  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Tim Eyman's Anti-Tolling Initiative Ruined by Sneak Attack on Light Rail

    ​Last week, Tim Eyman sent around a post I did back in July on his anti-tolling initiative. "Liberal Seattle Weekly's supportive editorial on I-1125 worth rereading," he wrote in his e-mail blast. Hey, thanks, Tim! Just one thing: I won't be voting for the measure thanks to a sneaky and potent ... More >>

  • Food

    October 26, 2011

    A Little Raskin: Amtrak's Fork in the Railroad

    Tom Douglas helps the embattled train system improve its meals.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Amtrak Dining Overhaul Includes Vegan Noodles and Tom Douglas' Salmon

    ​The menus, china, and other dining memorabilia showcased aboard Amtrak's exhibit train, which rolled into town this weekend, are easy fodder for romantics who glamorize earlier generations of dining on the rails. But Amtrak executives and frequent riders say the current decade may represent t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 2, 2011

    Hollow Earth Radio's Magma Fest: Traveling Light Rail Show

    ​The menus, china, and other dining memorabilia showcased aboard Amtrak's exhibit train, which rolled into town this weekend, are easy fodder for romantics who glamorize earlier generations of dining on the rails. But Amtrak executives and frequent riders say the current decade may represent t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Tiki Bob's Calms Down

    ​The Watering Hole: Tiki Bob's Cantina, 166 South King Street, PIONEER SQUARE The Atmosphere: Tiki Bob's, which bills itself as "the number one night club beach party in Seattle," is like what island-themed dances in teen TV dramas look like, only with approximately five bajillion pieces of a ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2010

    Sound Transit's Misleading Environmental Claims

    The agency celebrates light rail's first anniversary with more obfuscation.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Sound Transit's Claims About Light Rail's Environmental Benefits Are More Than a Little Dubious

    ​The Central Link light rail line is one-year-old today. And, like any parent who sees their toddler's ability to hold his head upright as a sign of genius, Sound Transit seems to be heavily overestimating Link's accomplishments. On the colorful, free, round-trip ticket the agency handed out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Mike McGinn's Even More Inclusive 520 Scheme Revealed

    The mayor wants to accommodate all classes of 520 bridge users.​As the Times and others are reporting, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn continues to fight for light rail on the planned replacement of State Route 520 (the Evergreen Point Bridge). A new report he commissioned, separate from the state's ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    End of the Line

    Nickels’ mission may be over, but “accomplished” is a stretch.

  • Film

    September 16, 2009

    PICK Somers Town: An Adorable Boy Lost in the Big (Not So Bad) City

    Nickels’ mission may be over, but “accomplished” is a stretch.

  • News

    July 29, 2009

    Stuff White People Like: Light Rail

    Caucasians are flocking to Seattle’s new train.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Scamming the Rails

    ​It was inevitable that cheaters would find a way to ride light rail for free, "fare enforcement officers" or no. One method gleaned from a cheapskate rider: bus transfers. Even though you can't transfer for free from light rail to busses, you can do so from busses to light rail (at least unt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Off the Rails: The Demographic Puzzle of Light Rail

    Look at this picture of riders on the number 42 bus today, which travels along Martin Luther King Way, right alongside light rail. Then look at the picture after the jump of light rail riders yesterday. Notice something different? The bus riders are virtually all minorities. Light rail's are not. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Light Rail: Running Often (But Far Away)

    The pros and cons of light rail was made crystal clear to me this morning as I walked down to catch a bus on a route that will shortly no longer exist. Con: The nearest light rail station is further away from me than my bus stop, which is right down the street from my house. A lot of people are in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Sound Transit Photo of the Week: Beacon Hill Station Art

    A few months ago, Sound Transit's Photo of the Week featured the chandelier preparations for the Mt. Baker light rail station. This week, it's the Beacon Hill station's artwork (date stamp included!). "Space Forms" is the jellyfish-esque suspended artwork installation by local artist Dan Corson, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Should Cars or Light Rail Get Signal Priority in Downtown Bellevue?

    As you may know, there's a bit of a tussle over whether to run East Link light rail trains on or beneath the surface of downtown Bellevue. And the tussle has revealed this whammy: light rail trains would not have signal priority in downtown Bellevue, meaning they could end up waiting, like glorified ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Have You Ever Ridden the Sound Transit Lunch Bus?

    As a subscriber to Sound Transit's e-mail information services ("provided to you at no charge by Sound Transit"!), I get the occasional notice about the agency's Lunch Bus. It sounds essentially like an adult field trip, and is described in alternately dryly informative and breathless, travel brochu ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2008

    Station Break

    Sound Transit makes a bet on voters' light-rail delusions.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Food for Thought, re: Light Rail

    Sound Transit makes a bet on voters' light-rail delusions.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Transit Face-Off: An Easy Winner

    Sound Transit makes a bet on voters' light-rail delusions.

  • Music

    June 25, 2008

    Seattle Über Alles

    This could be a great city, if only we’d get out of its way.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Seattle Uber Alles

    This could be a great city, if only we’d get out of its way.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Ex-Transpo Chief Skeptical About Light Rail

    This could be a great city, if only we’d get out of its way.

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    Beacon Hill Doesn't Deserve its Light Rail Station

    This could be a great city, if only we’d get out of its way.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    Time to Put a Fork in Amtrak?

    This could be a great city, if only we’d get out of its way.

  • News

    July 3, 2002

    Tunnel Vision

    City Council hands over transit tunnel.

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    Ballot congestion

    Politicians may ask the voters for $20 billion in new taxes.

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Miles to go

    Should Seattle give the monorail a chance?

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    News Clips— Railroaded?

    Should Seattle give the monorail a chance?

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Slow Train Coming

    Will light rail actually save transit commuters time?

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    Zombie train

    Sound Transit's light rail may look dead, but somehow it keeps on living.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Mayor Nice redux?

    King County Council member Greg Nickels leads on primary night in the mayor's race.

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Campaign cocktail

    A stiff shot for the voting public.

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Tunnel traffic

    The debate over light rail's effect on traffic gets noisier but no clearer.

  • News

    August 22, 2001

    Fifth face off

    Incumbent King County Council member Dwight Pelz faces a vigorous challenge from activist Mark Wheeler.

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    One track mind

    Incumbent King County Council member Dwight Pelz faces a vigorous challenge from activist Mark Wheeler.

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Staying on track

    Monorail route from Ballard to West Seattle is explored.

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Sound Transit: more sour news

    Monorail route from Ballard to West Seattle is explored.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    Council: Unsound logic

    Monorail route from Ballard to West Seattle is explored.

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    This time, with feeling

    A billion dollars in the hole, Sound Transit assures the public that the worst is over.

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    Transit pickle

    Why is Ron Sims using Metro to rescue light rail?

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    The little engine that can't

    Seattle's most neglected landmark, King Street Station, sits crumbling in the middle of downtown's boom.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Nickeled and damned?

    County Council member and mayoral hopeful Greg Nickels bets the farm on Sound Transit's shaky finances.

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Firing up light rail

    Sims and Schell get into line and a Sound Transit "consensus" is born.

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    Tied to the rails

    Ron Sims and Paul Schell are trying to save us from the worst of Sound Transit. But they're getting run over.

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    In Singapore the trains got built on time

    Ron Sims and Paul Schell are trying to save us from the worst of Sound Transit. But they're getting run over.

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    Downtown showdown

    Seattle's business interests ask: Should we drop light rail?

  • News

    June 16, 1999

    Train to nowhere

    Seattle's business interests ask: Should we drop light rail?

  • News

    February 10, 1999

    Schell, Sims selling surface solution

    Seattle's business interests ask: Should we drop light rail?

  • News

    October 7, 1998

    Die, Olympics, die!

    Seattle's business interests ask: Should we drop light rail?

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