Sprawl in Texas Transit cannot work without good land use. A few years ago I traveled to Texas. Anyone who has been to Texas knows that unchecked and endless sprawl, creates awful places for humans beings.  If you are crazy enough to walk in Texas cities, like I was,...

The Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition released a poll today that finds 71% of Washington State voters support adding health to the State's transportation goals. This is all the more reason why the Washington State Senate should pass House Bill 2370 without any...

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...

The House and Senate Transportation committees are both proposing a package of increased transportation fees to help meet the budget shortfalls in transportation across the board. These proposals would direct those fees to various transportation investments. Sadly,...

WSDOT's preliminary plans for their replacement of Colman Dock eliminate the passenger ferry landing as part of their terminal redesign. I covered this issue extensively on this blog and it was written up in Publicola and the Seattle Times. I just got word from...

WSDOT is undergoing a process to plan for the replacement of the Colman ferry terminal.  We fully support preservation projects and our state's ferry system, but the current replacement project will eliminate the existing passenger ferry dock, which will threaten the...

Transit continues to be on the chopping block in Washington D.C. as House Republicans lead the charge to essentially defund transit in America. Today Puget Sound Transit agencies stood together to articulate the dangerous impacts of the House Republican anti-transit...

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) released a report completed for the Region X Northwest Transportation Consortium (NW and Alaska state DOTs), titled "Climate Change Impact Assessment for Surface Transportation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska"....

The Truth About Washington State's Public Transit Funding Recently the Washington Policy Center released a report titled, “Public Transit is not underfunded in Washington”.  Here at Transportation Choices, we respectfully disagree with this bogus and ill-supported...