Last Tuesday, we had one last chance to preserve bus service that gets hundreds of thousands of people to work, school, and services each day. But we fell short. Some will say that this result is a stark reminder that we need more progressive funding sources for...

We've been working for a long time to keep buses on the streets in King County. Now all of those efforts - from our years advocating in the state legislature for a sustainable funding source for transit, to our months working with the county to find the best possible...

Earth Day is April 22nd. For the next two weeks (April 14th – 30th), Earthshare Washington is hosting the Earth Day Corporate Challenge to encourage local companies to collectively raise $50,000 and volunteer 1,000 hours for environmental causes. Transportation...

The 2014 short legislative session was a quiet and mostly uneventful tale for transportation. Despite the desire of the governor and house to pass a comprehensive transportation bill, the cantankerous state senate did not take up the task, and a comprehensive...

Update, 4/9: Mayor Ed Murray has asked the Youth Commission to take down the video because it violates City of Seattle ethics rules. The video creators plan to remove the commission's logo and repost it. We will update this post with the correct link when it is...

Songs of Willow Frost is the new novel by bestselling author, Jamie Ford. Like his first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost explores historic Seattle, but this time it's the Depression era instead of World War II. "Twelve-year-old...

This the first post in a series about how bus cuts will affect people in King County. College students are among the groups that will be hit hardest if King County Metro is forced to make cuts. A significant percentage of college students in our region (46% of...

Do you want better ways to communicate with your local transit agency? The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is sponsoring a study to explore the use of web-based feedback to improve transit service. As part of the study, researchers are interested in understanding...

This the first post in a series about how bus cuts will affect people in King County. Alex Rouse is graduate student and Seattle sports fan who uses King County Metro as her primary form of transportation. Here is what she had to say about what the bus means to her...