Tag: king county metro

September 19, 2024

Testing the in-bus bike racks on the new RapidRide G

The RapidRide G started service this past week, promising six-minute headways between downtown and Madison Valley via Madison Street. But you go to other sites to learn about the implications for transit service. I’m here to talk about the bike racks inside the buses. That’s right, inside. The new RapidRide G buses have a couple…
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tagged: bike racks, king county metro, rapidride g, spinlock, sportworks
December 7, 2022

Transit GO app now includes scooter and bike share rewards + Use new micromobility parking areas to get ride discounts

Transit GO is an interesting and mostly functional mobile app that allows riders to pay for transit tickets on their phones while also gamifying the transit riding experience. And now scooter and bike share services are now part of the game, too. The app is only for people paying full price for transit as they…
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tagged: bike & scoot to transit, bike share, bird, king county metro, limebike, link, scooter share, sound transit, transit go, veo
September 20, 2021

Vashon and West Seattle Water Taxis can now take wide tire bikes (but still no long bikes)

The King County Water Taxi bike racks can now take bikes with tires as wide as 4.6 inches, nearly double the size of the old bike racks. This should significantly expand compatibility, especially as many of today’s most popular bikes (such as the Rad Power e-bike featured in King County’s blog post) have wide tires.…
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tagged: king county metro, king county water taxi, vashon, west seattle
June 30, 2021

Transit returns to full-capacity this week

Transit is back. Over the next couple days, agencies around the region will relax many of their COVID precautions as the bulk of Washington State’s restrictions end. Like many of you, I’ve still been treating transit as an essential-trips-only service. I didn’t want to take a limited spot from someone who needed it more than…
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tagged: community transit, covid-19, king county metro, kitsap transit, pierce transit, sound transit, washington state ferries
May 11, 2021

Bike lanes coming to Eastlake Ave between Stewart and Fairview, work starts this summer

SDOT and King County Metro are getting ready to redesign a significant stretch of Eastlake Ave E from Stewart Street in South Lake Union (near REI) to Fairview Ave N in Eastlake. The changes will happen in two phases with work on the north phase from Fairview to Roy beginning this summer. The project will…
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tagged: eastlake, king county metro, lakeview boulevard, sdot
January 14, 2020

The streets Seattle plans to plow + City site tracks which streets have been plowed recently

Are you waiting for SDOT crews to clear your street? Well, you should probably check this map to see if they are ever coming: SDOT also has an interactive map that will be updated to let you know which streets have been cleared recently. The snows so far have not been completely debilitating to travel…
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tagged: king county metro, sdot, snow