Tag: sound transit

May 18, 2017

Sound Transit offers half-price access to Beacon Hill and Angle Lake bike cages

Sound Transit is offering a sweet deal on membership to two of its stations’ secure bike cages: Six months free if you sign up for a year. The catch is that you have to sign up by the end of May to get the deal. Secure bike cages are an alternative to the fairly ugly…
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tagged: angle lake, beacon hill, bike cages, bike parking, sound transit
May 15, 2017

Cascade: Redmond stations are a chance to go all out on Sound Transit station access

Transit works better when people can get to the stations. This might seem like an extremely obvious point, but many of the region’s biggest rail and express bus stations have awful walking and biking access problems. Like truly awful: And it’s a lot harder to go back and fix station access problems once the core…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, redmond, sound transit, st3, vicky clarke
October 21, 2016

Sound Transit 3 is not about light rail, it’s about bringing our region closer together

So much of the debating over the Sound Transit 3 vote has been about taxes or traffic or whether buses are better than trains or whether the size of the package is too ambitious. These points are all missing what’s really are the core of this decision: Loving our neighboring communities and wanting to be…
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tagged: sound transit, st3
May 15, 2016

Man killed and woman seriously injured in shared-bike collision with bus

A man and woman sharing a bike collided with a Sound Transit bus at 5th and Main at 10:40 p.m. Saturday night. The woman was seriously injured, but conscious at the scene. The man died. Our condolences to his friends and family. KIRO TV reports that the man was 41 and the woman is 37.…
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tagged: 5th ave, deaths, injuries, international district, kiro, s main street, sound transit, spd
April 20, 2016

Cascade calls for more bike/walk station access funds in ST3

Sound Transit’s latest ballot measure draft would spend $661 million in transit funds to build car parking near stations. Seattle Transit Blog did the math and found that each new parking space would cost $80,000. To put that in perspective, a person could park their car at a station every day for 50 years and…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, sound transit, st3
April 12, 2016

Bike-and-Ride: New bike cage opens at Beacon Hill Station

If you live or work within an easy bike ride of Beacon Hill Station, you no longer need to lock your beloved ride outside all day or night exposed to theft, vandalism and weather. Sound Transit has opened a new secure bike cage at the station, and it costs $50/year to get a spot. That’s…
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tagged: beacon hill, beacon hill station, bike parking, sound transit