Tag: sound transit

April 28, 2022

Cascade: Tell Sound Transit to support bike access to Ballard-West Seattle stations

It’s the final day to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Sound Transit’s Ballard to West Seattle light rail line. Cascade has a form letter you can quickly send to support bike access as a priority for station access. More details from Cascade: As leaders across the region prepare to make key decisions…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, sound transit
March 3, 2022

Alert 3/7: Mercer Island Station construction will detour section of the I-90 Trail ‘long-term’

Work to build Mercer Island Station and redesign the bus connections there will displace a section of the I-90 Trail starting March 7, Sound Transit announced. Though the work area may change as work progresses, expect some kind of trail detour for about a year. The closed section runs along the north side of N…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, mercer island, mercer island station, sound transit
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
January 19, 2021

New study recommends slew of biking improvements around coming north Seattle light rail stations

SDOT has released a study looking at how to improve access for people walking and biking around two coming light rail stations at the north end of the city. The station in Shoreline at 148th Street is currently planned to open with the Lynnwood Link extension in 2024, and the planned infill station at 130th…
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tagged: 130th street, city council district 5, d5, northeast seattle, shoreline, sound transit
September 21, 2020

Bike Route Alert: Little 116th Street trail closed near I-5

Sound Transit has closed a short trail connection between NE 116th St and the 1st Ave NE I-5 overpass to N 117th St. This trail will never reopen. Instead, the agency will construct a new trail under the light rail tracks a block away at NE 115th St. The official detour is fairly out of…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lynnwood link, NE 115th St, sound transit
September 14, 2020

Bike Route Alert: Lynnwood Link construction will close Scriber Creek Trail for 2 years, disrupt Interurban Trail

Work on Lynnwood Link will close the Scribner Creek Trail for two years and will require intermittent closures of the Interurban Trail, Sound Transit says. The Scribner Creek Trail is basically a path along the southwest edge of the Lynnwood Park and Ride parking lot that connects to the Interurban Trail. So if you don’t…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, interurban north, lynnwood, sound transit