As the average number of miles driven by Americans heads into its eighth year of decline, a new report from U.S. PIRG Education Fund, finds that the slowdown in driving is likely to continue. Major demographic shifts are likely to depress driving levels for decades,...

  It’s time to Save Metro. Funding for Metro has been a series of stopgap, temporary, or volatile measures for as long as most of us can remember. Metro depends heavily on revenues from sales tax, which plummeted with the recession, and we’ve been struggling...

On this gorgeous spring day, a day when our mountain is "out," I am pleased to announce (a little later than planned) the spring, 2013, Books on the Bus selection: Bruce Barcott's love letter to Tahoma, The Measure of a Mountain. Here's a taste from the first chapter....

If the beautiful spring weather we’ve been having isn’t enough to make you want to ditch your keys and grab your helmet, May is Bike Month! Whether you are a regular bike commuter or it’s your first time on two wheels, there are plenty of activities across the region....

Think traffic is bad now?  It's going to be far worse when tens of thousands of bus riders in the central Puget Sound see their buses cut, forcing them back into a car to drive to work. And worse than traffic, what about the thousands of Washingtonians who will no...

Late last week, King County Executive Dow Constantine signed an executive order to further integrate regional transit planning and operations in the Puget Sound. Transportation Choices welcomes this news and continues to appreciate Executive Constantine’s leadership...

There’s been a lot of focus on current legislative bills designed to provide more – and more flexible –revenue options for local transportation needs. However, recently we’ve been intrigued by an interesting idea for raising revenue that hasn’t yet made it to the...

Mark your calendars, bus riders! Monday, March 18th, is Bus Driver Appreciation Day. What is Bus Driver Appreciation Day, you ask? It’s a holiday (started by a couple of Seattle bus riders in 2009) set aside to acknowledge, celebrate, and otherwise lift up all the...

Today, a countywide coalition--made up of business, labor, education, and advocacy groups--called for Olympia to take action on essential local and statewide transportation funding. From the press release: “We’ve significantly reduced Metro’s labor, operating, and...