Photo courtesy of the ridiculously talented Seattlest Flickr photographer LA Chance Further proving that Seattle traffic planning has previously been a huge, cruel joke upon the people trying to utilize it--the city announced yesterday that they synchronized downtown traffic lights for the first time in 20 years. Streetlights at 258 downtown intersections have been synchronized. According to the P-I's report on the synchronization of the traffic lights, "the city predicted a 12 percent reduction in......

"Watching the SLUT pass by" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr photographer Jonathan Hanlon While we've been admittedly hard on the South Lake Union street car, we are actually a fan of the idea of street cars in Seattle. With the way traffic is in Seattle today and the Sisyphean task our current public transit system faces daily, we're pretty much a fan of any and all public transportation ideas for Seattle. So we were pleased to......

A bird's-eye view of I-5 from the Seattlest Flickr Pool, thanks to subactive photos Usually, when traffic is dawdling on I-5 at 30 m.p.h., we're longing for the arterial: same speed, fewer Seattle drivers. But starting next year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) may be intentionally slowing down drivers on I-5 in hopes that it will ease traffic. The $25 million dollar project will focus on a six-mile stretch of I-5 where......

All southbound lanes of Interstate 5 through downtown Seattle were closed earlier this afternoon while the State Patrol investigated an accident involving a tractor-trailer and several other vehicles at 1:54 p.m near the Mercer Street exit. We're advising people to avoid I-5 right now," said Lauren Penning, spokeswoman for the Washington Department of Transportation. You might want to avoid it for the rest of the afternoon time:HIGHEST IMPACT I-5 N - Accident, Right Center Lane......