Tag: Transportation

The East Link exten­sion, approved as part of Sound Tran­sit Phase II in 2008, will con­nect Belle­vue and Red­mond to Mer­cer Island and Seat­tle when com­plete. Defec­tive con­struc­tion on the cross-lake seg­ment (which is neces­si­tat­ing a do-over of some work) prompt­ed the agency to rethink the orig­i­nal open­ing plans.

The ser­vice is a six-mile long bus rapid tran­sit line that begins in Browne’s Addi­tion, a his­toric neigh­bor­hood near Spokane’s Down­town area, and winds through down­town and the Gon­za­ga Uni­ver­si­ty Dis­trict, all the way to Spokane Falls Com­mu­ni­ty College.

Amtrak will restore a sec­ond dai­ly round-trip train ser­vice between Seat­tle and Van­cou­ver, B.C., as of March 7th, and promis­es to boost dai­ly trips between Seat­tle and Port­land from four to six come fall, accord­ing to a let­ter sent to the trans­porta­tion depart­ments of Wash­ing­ton and Oregon.

Reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled train ser­vice between British Colum­bia and the rest of the Pacif­ic North­west will be resum­ing in the fall, rather than in the win­ter, the Wash­ing­ton and Ore­gon Depart­ments of Trans­porta­tion announced today.

“I am pro­found­ly grate­ful to join the Sound Tran­sit team’s work to trans­form lives across the Puget Sound region for gen­er­a­tions to come,” Timm said in a pre­pared statement.

Timm is cur­rent­ly CEO of Greater Rich­mond Tran­sit Com­pa­ny, where her more than four hun­dred employ­ees oper­ate suc­cess­ful region­al bus routes serv­ing the Rich­mond, Vir­ginia area.