Late-night bus service starting March 28 will give riders with late flights at Sea-Tac more breathing room. The pilot is one element of Sound Transit’s planned overnight bus network queued to launch this fall.
With 46,000 workers commuting to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport every day, Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa shares the Port of Seattle’s plans to improve transportation options and encourage transit use.
Boeing has taken in billions in tax breaks from Washington State, but still lays off workers all the same. Nonetheless, state lawmakers are pushing to include a loophole to a new tax to shield Boeing yet again.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) set a new record of 52.6 million passengers in 2024, and the Port of Seattle is advancing an improvement plan to better accommodate 56 million passengers by 2032.
Inevitably, you’re probably going to travel and, from time to time, go by plane to get to your destination. But if you’re a transit enthusiast, environmentally minded, or an urbanist, you may want to make transit a more sustainable part of your travels, particularly to and from the
Paine Field Airport in Everett could see some notable expansions in the coming years to support increasing demand. Snohomish County, which owns the airport grounds but not the passenger terminal itself, has developed a draft master plan that is pending final approval from the feds and county council
Just shy of its 2019 record, SEA clocked in with 50,887,260 passengers in 2023. That was up 10.7% from 2022.
The Duwamish River Valley hosts three freeways, two international airports, an international seaport, and a river so polluted it was declared a federal Superfund site, with over 300 industries lining the banks.  Seattle’s only majority people of color and immigrant neighborhoods are also the most vulnerable; with more families,
Numbers climb back to 2016 levels as new construction moves to different areas of the facility. Passenger numbers ticked up in a big way at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) last year. Total passenger counts jumped 27% year-over-year and topped 45,964,321 in 2022, which is comparable numbers last seen
Seattle’s era of small thinking and smaller plans must come to an end. In order to face the combined climate and housing crises, the city and region must crawl out of its own navel and see the opportunities. This isn’t Burnham’s trope about making no small plans.
This week’s Transpo Notes roundup looks into Link light rail project timeline shifts due to labor disputes, restarts of the RapidRide R and K Lines, Sound Transit fare policy changes and extensions, King County Metro considering a cashless fare system, the opening of SeaTac Airport’s International Arrivals Facility,
If you sit on the Seattle waterfront on a sunny spring day you can hear a rumble in the distance. No, it’s not the new waterfront highway built where the old highway Viaduct used to be — and on top of the old-new highway buried deep underground in a tunnel.
This week’s Transpo Notes roundup covers King County Metro’s service change, Everett Link extension options, expansion of facilities at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, additional federal funding for Sound Transit’s I-405 Stride bus line, and Sound Transit’s fare strategy process. Metro spring service changes While Community Transit and
This week’s Transpo Notes highlights include: SEA’s new International Arrivals Facility, an advancing ST4 bill, a report on the post-Apple Cup Link meltdown, new Port Townsend-Kingston express bus, Kitsap Transit’s electric fast ferry, and Pierce Transit seeks feedback on its bus rapid transit network. SEA’s International
The winter holidays gifted Seattle thousands of cancelled flights, likely affecting over 100,000 travellers. Today, weeks later, people are feeling the impacts as airlines try to work through the backlog. I can relate. I’ve had my fair share of terrible flying experiences, including a trip just last November.
Our second Transpo Notes roundup of the week touches on short newsworthy transportation developments from the Port of Seattle, Community Transit, Everett Transit, and Sound Transit. SEA airport main terminal modernization work approved On Tuesday, the Port of Seattle Commission approved $149.5 million in new modernization work at Seattle-Tacoma
The Port of Seattle’s plan to significantly expand the capacity of the main arrivals drive at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) hit a speedbump in late September as most of the members of the Port of Seattle Commission voted to postpone a decision to move forward with design work for
Washington is still hunting for a new major commercial airport location as part of a state-mandated study. The state department of transportation has winnowed the list down to six possible sites in Puget Sound — none of which are in King County. A somewhat similar study was conducted by the Puget
Super commuting was on the up and up prior to the pandemic. Why are people doing it, who is doing it, and what can planning do to reduce it? Dave Amos explores those questions in this short video.
Like many industries in the past year, air travel has taken a huge hit and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) was no exception, seeing an unprecedented decline in passengers. The airport closed out 2020 with 20,061,507 passengers passing through its halls, a 61.29% decline from the record high
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has narrowed the field of possible sites that a second major airport could be located by 2040. In the latest round of the Regional Aviation Baseline Study, the PSRC has identified four locations that could rival Sea-Tac International Airport. Underpinning the study is the
Sea-Tac International Airport broke the 50 million passenger mark last year for the first time. A total of 51,829,239 passengers passed through the airport in 2019, a year-over-year increase of 3.97%. This continues the streak of annual passenger growth the airport has had since 2009. In 2018,
In this video, Joss Fong and her colleagues at Vox ask the question, “Is it wrong to fly?” They examine the impacts of air travel, the movement to reduce flying, and existing options to partially mitigate it. The team also looks into challenges and solutions in making flight sustainable, social
Aviation is one of the fastest growing sectors of greenhouse gas emissions. But so far, there are no commercially operated electric planes that could turn that back. CNBC looks into how that could soon change, but that could come with its own dystopian future of urban air taxis and more commuter fli
The Port of Seattle has released a new video visualizing what the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) will look like and how it will function when it opens next fall at Seat-Tac International Airport. The new facility should expand customs processing capacity and reduce clearance times, which could spur more
Using London’s Heathrow Airport as a case study, Dave Amos explains the pitfalls and limited benefits of airport expansion.
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) delivered an update on the Regional Aviation Baseline Study last week. The added findings affirm earlier analysis that unconstrained growth in commercial passenger and freight aviation in the Central Puget Sound would require at least one additional major airport on the scale of Sea-Tac
See one day’s flightpaths of planes throughout Puget Sound to and from local airports.
On Thursday, the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) released the first part of a multi-year aviation study for the four-county region. The study’s early findings indicate that commercial aviation will see more than a doubling in passenger boardings by 2050. Takeoffs and landings are also forecast to more than
Sea-Tac International Airport continues to post incredible passenger growth. In 2018, the airport moved 49,849,520 passengers, just shy of the magic 50-million mark. Passengers counts were up 5.9% year-over-year from 46,934,619 in 2017. For comparison, Sea-Tac saw passenger growth of 2.5% in 2017. According
Earlier this month, the Port of Seattle Commission was briefed on an update of the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) for Sea-Tac International Airport. It was the first briefing on the subject in a year and a half. A lot has changed in the direction of the plan, according to
Passenger numbers continue to rise at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Last week, the Port of Seattle unveiled new passenger counts from 2017 showing 2.5% growth year-over-year. Nearly 47 million passengers passed through the airport in a single year, setting a new record. A variety of factors are playing a role
With record passenger levels and major overhauls planned to passenger facilities underway at Sea-Tac Airport, The Port of Seattle is commissioning a new gate expansion. Located at the northend of the main terminal, Concourse D will be modestly expanded with the addition of a hardstand holdroom. The new 32,500-square
When Sound Transit proposed a dogleg light rail alignment to Everett in order to pick up Paine Field on the way, many–present company included–expressed doubts. Would dreams of a second major airport in the region materialize and would it be at Everett’s Paine Field? Were we building