Politics
Metro drivers' wages threaten bus service
King County Metro officials have raised bus driver pay dramatically while neglecting some promised service increases. Now, the wages threaten to cut into existing service.
Michael Ennis
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Seattle & King County
'Road diets' will make future traffic congestion worse
Studies show that roadways with fewer than 20,000 vehicles a day do not suffer, but an arterial like Nickerson is projected to be at 29,456 by 2030. We're trading away future capacity.
Sound Transit's (un)progress report on light rail
Light rail costs $7.13 per trip and a quarter of the time it's late, argues a critic of the system.
Politics
Want a transportation system that works? Vanpools.
For an efficient way to move people and protect the environment, vanpools greatly outperform all other transit modes. Let's do the numbers.
Politics
Sound Transit ridership is up, and down
Transit demand should continue to fall through the year, owing to fuel prices and high unemployment. But the demand for new transit taxes, based on last year's rise in usage, will not go away.