Historic Pier Walk: The big kahuna in the waterfront’s evolution. Expect a sprawling promenade extending from Pioneer Square Beach to Pier 63, filled with all Alaskan Way historic and commercial stalwarts. Continue reading Welcome to Your New Central Waterfront, Seattle
Metro plans to replace “up to 141 trolley buses,” says Rochelle Ogershok, using a combination of federal and agency capital funds. (Metro’s projected service cuts are due to shortfalls in operational funding.) The agency currently runs a fleet of 159. Continue reading New Flyer Trolley Buses Taking Over in Hilly, Hydro-Powered West-Coast Cities
Busdrone is the handiwork of Andrew Filer, drawing on a number of existing data sources. More recently, as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, while Filer made more improvements to the desktop version, Eric Butler ported Busdrone to Android. (Android is here; no iOS yet.) Continue reading All-in-One Seattle Transit-Tracker Busdrone Now on Android
Thanks to a commenter at Seattle Transit Blog, we can alert you to the existence of the cheekily-named busdrone, a Google map initially overlaid with Sound Transit’s and King County Metro’s real-time feeds, so you could watch buses beetle about the city for amusement, and possibly travel-related purposes. Now it’s got SLU streetcar and Washington State Ferries, too. Continue reading Busdrone Lets You Watch Metro Buses (and More) Move Slowly in Real-Time
“I’m mildly nervous, having never done the 358 at this time of day, but exhilarated at the chance to perform at my best. When people tell horror stories, it’s always about their last trip of the night, or their last day on the route. You can’t check out early. People can sniff that a mile away. You’ve gotta stay on, right there with everyone, until you pull back into base and turn the motor off.” Continue reading Nathan Vass on Who Rides Route 358 (Part 2)
“I always pull up early when starting an inbound trip at Aurora Village. There’s something nice about sitting there with the doors open, in prep mode, while people get on and situate themselves.” Continue reading Nathan Vass on What It’s Like to Drive Route 358 (Part 1)
New transit-site-on-the-block WhichBus, which emerged from beta at the beginning of 2013, promises to be “simple” and beautiful” but it doesn’t yet have the years of user-testing that’s now built into OneBusAway. So Metro riders greet any news about their favorite app’s future with distinct wariness. Continue reading Sound Transit Adopts OneBusAway, While WhichBus Goes “Public”
