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Op-Ed: Savor Our Waterfront Streetcars, Don’t Sell Them

27 Jun 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

University Village Hits Brakes on Parking Construction, Trumpets Concert Series

21 Jun 2012 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Wallingford’s Greenway Gets a Grand Opening This Saturday

15 Jun 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Memo to Jeff Bezos: Progress on Gondolas?!?

15 Jun 2012 by Michael van Baker in Business, Features, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

TGIF! Weekend Traffic Predicted to be “Particularly Ugly” Saturday

08 Jun 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Captain Krezner’s Mini-Ferry Trips From UW to SLU are Back

24 May 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Seattle Bike Boxes Explained (Again), Plus New Bike Maps

17 May 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Nick Licata’s Costly Car-Towing Battle Set for a July Joust

15 May 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

Seattle Subway: “We want it all, and we want it now”

08 May 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Real Estate, Transportation

Alaskan Way Reroute Begins 2nd Week of May

01 May 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Foes of SR 520 Bridge-Embiggening File Opening Brief in Federal Lawsuit

26 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Ferry Fares to Rise May 1 for Peak Season

24 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

The Sounders Are a Mac, The Mariners Are a PC

18 Apr 2012 by Seth Kolloen in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Sports, Transportation

What’s Wrong with One Bus Away?

11 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

New Stadium Notion Leaves Port, the Ms Feeling Congested Even Before Tunnel Toll

05 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

Letter to Jeff Bezos: Let’s Talk Gondolas

04 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, Transportation

Seattle Tries Out New “Pothole City” Moniker

02 Apr 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Op-Ed: Coaxing Metro into Putting Passengers First

30 Mar 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Just Think How University Link Light Rail Will Link Things

26 Mar 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Wait, Boston Will Be First in U.S. to Fly 787?

05 Mar 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Seattle’s War on Cars Fails, Again, to Achieve Predicted Nightmare Outcomes

01 Mar 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Seattle’s Shunpikers Slice $200 Million From Tunnel Toll Estimates

29 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Chinatown’s Paid Parking Mystery Continues to Unfold

28 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Is Chinatown’s Parking Jake or a Joke?

27 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

40th Annual “Chilly Hilly” Bike Ride More Than Delivers on Promise

27 Feb 2012 by Jonathan Dean in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Are Seattle Cyclists Colliding with City Policy?

17 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Burke-Gilman Trail Reopening Contrasts with Growing Greenway Interest

13 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Time to Play the Most Dangerous (Bus) Game

10 Feb 2012 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Willie Weir on the Benefits of Extra-Cycling Perception

08 Feb 2012 by Jonathan Dean in Environment, News, Transportation

SeaTac Airport Brings Seattle Music to the Traveling Masses

28 Jan 2012 by Tony Kay in Arts & Entertainment, ARTS_FEATURED, Music, News, Transportation

Paying to Cross 520: Is It Worth It?

03 Jan 2012 by Seth Kolloen in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

New SR 520 Toll Boosts Microsoft Connector Ridership

30 Dec 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Will King Street Station Adopt a Greyhound? (Plus, Seattle’s Jumbo Ferry Passenger Problem)

21 Dec 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation, Travel

Uber Seattle Your Way to the Airport for the Holidays

20 Dec 2011 by Audrey in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Dry December May Boost Amtrak Cascades Ridership

19 Dec 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Ship Canal Bike Trail Gets Grand Opening

21 Nov 2011 by Jonathan Dean in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Make the Bus Suck Less–Advice for Seattle’s New Transit Riders Union

15 Nov 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

Prop 1 Didn’t Fail, the City of Seattle Did, for Decades

10 Nov 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

With Winter Weather On the Way, City Sets Up Snow-Centric Sites

09 Nov 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation, Weather

James Corner Field Operations Fills in Details on Seattle’s New Waterfront Design

03 Nov 2011 by Michael van Baker in Environment, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Real Estate, Transportation

The Viaduct is a Hard Habit to Break

28 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

The Surprising Truth About Bicycling in Seattle

27 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

The War on Running People Down in the Street

26 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

Crosstown Transit? Seattle Wins Federal Funds for Study

19 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Sustainable 520 Coalition NIMBYs Their Way to Support of Eyman’s I-1125

17 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

The Autumn of Our Traffic Backup Discontent

14 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Mitsubishi’s All-Electric i Car Visiting Eastside, Westside, All Around the Town

11 Oct 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

What Makes Tesla’s Model S Like the iPad?

28 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, Transportation

Council’s Bagshaw Pledges to Make Neighborhood Greenways a Reality

27 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Discover Seattle’s UW-to-SLU Mosquito Ferry

26 Sep 2011 by Guest Contributor in News, Transportation

Seattle Cyclists Hold Memorial Ride for the Fallen

25 Sep 2011 by Guest Contributor in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

3 Simple Supergenius Ideas for Seattle

21 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in Business, Environment, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Real Estate, Transportation

Portland Has a Greenway They’d Like to Sell Seattle

16 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Even an Advance Warning Didn’t Save Cyclist’s Life

15 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

With Tolls, New Larger 520 Bridge Could Serve Half as Many

09 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Seattle is Just Plane Crazy (Vintage Aircraft Photo Gallery)

09 Sep 2011 by RVO in Features, News, Transportation

Did a Bike Path Just Kill a Seattle Cyclist?

08 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

The Economist to Seattle: Car Speed Kills

02 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

A Seattle-Port Townsend Passenger Ferry by 2013?

01 Sep 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation, Travel

Delta’s Bigger and Better Sky Club Opens at Sea-Tac

31 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

New Engines to Put Boeing 737 Family on a Fuel Diet

30 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in Business, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Do Helmet Laws Kill (Bike-Sharing Programs)?

19 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Sic Transit? Seattle and King County Councils Weigh Car Tab Fees

16 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

$80 Seattle Car Tab Fee Unites Greens That Tunnel Split Asunder

12 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

King County Council to Okay $20 Congestion Reduction Charge

12 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

Uber Seattle Brings Town Cars to a Taxi-Starved Populace

12 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Op-Ed: For Rail, Be Bold (by Mayor McGinn)

11 Aug 2011 by Guest Contributor in News, Politics, Transportation

City Council Blogs: the Missing Jail, “Rubble Yard” Money & $80 License Fees

09 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in Crime, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

Seattle Doesn’t Have a Pothole Problem–It Has a Repaving Problem

03 Aug 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

Seattle Times: Unacceptable Delay is Unacceptable

29 Jul 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

For Just a Nickel a Day, You Can Feed King County Metro

25 Jul 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

After Carmageddon, The Buspocalypse

21 Jul 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Why Don’t We Tell People Not to Drive All The Time?

19 Jul 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

STP to Fill Saturday Morning Air with Roar of 20,000 Pedals

08 Jul 2011 by Michael van Baker in Health, News, Transportation

King Street’s Jackson Plaza Gets a Grand Opening

24 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

SDOT Commends WSDOT on Adding Facts to Tunnel’s Environmental Impact Statement

22 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

Sen. Cantwell vs. the Speculator Gang in an FTC Shoot-Out

21 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

ORCA Card Tips, Reloaded!

20 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

When Will OneBusAway Upgrade to On-Board GPS Data?

17 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

OneBusAway Faces “Number of Options”

14 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Electric Cars Are Coming…For You!

13 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in Environment, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Pacific Place Parking Wants Your Two Dollars

02 Jun 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

In Political News, State Dems Apply Lipstick to a Pig’s Anus

25 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in Education, Health, News, NEWS_FEATURED, Politics, Transportation

The Real Meaning of Bike to Work Day

19 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Vote on the Port of Seattle’s Centennial Video Contest

10 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in Announcements, News, Transportation

Amtrak Plans for More Seattle-to-Portland Trips

10 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Balky Contractors Push Back Against WSDOT’s SR 520 Opening Date

06 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

The Dirt on Seattle’s Tunnel-Vision Future

04 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in Environment, News, Science, Transportation, Weather

SR 99 to Narrow to Two Lanes Each Way at SoDo

03 May 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Local Environmental Groups Can’t Find Environmental Angle on Transportation Megaproject

28 Apr 2011 by Michael van Baker in Environment, News, Transportation

Metro May Stick with Electric Trolley Bus with Benefits

20 Apr 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Op Ed: Do You Remember Electing a Democrat as Governor?

12 Apr 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

Six Things I Won’t Miss About Mass Transit in Paris

07 Apr 2011 by mindyjones in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Cycling as a Uniter, Not a Divider

05 Apr 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Seattle’s Most Ignored Speed Limits

01 Apr 2011 by Seth Kolloen in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation

Why Do We Hate the Mayor So Much?

30 Mar 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

Checking WSDOT Math on the Deep-Bore Tunnel

23 Mar 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Seattle to Portland Bike Ride is Sold Out

21 Mar 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, NEWS_FEATURED, Transportation, Travel

Mayor McGinn Calls for Viaduct Closure in 2012

15 Mar 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Transportation

Op-Ed: Shut Down the Viaduct Now

11 Mar 2011 by Michael van Baker in News, Politics, Transportation

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