Bumper Sticker, 1970, courtesy of Flickr Pool contributor Seattle Municipal Archives. Over in fair Magnolia, home of Discovery Park, residents and park lovers alike are gearing up to continue the fight over the Fort Lawton redevelopment plan. Magnolia Voice says that it seems a lawsuit might be in the works.Up on The Hill, we're wondering if the idea to let the SWAT Team train in the old Jack in the Box is a cruel......

Well, the local transit blogosphere is all atwitter about the results of Sound Transit's recent survey. Over at Carless in Seattle they're not so keen on how the surveys were conducted. The Web results are useless, they say, because they're from people who are already interested in talking about transit, which makes them biased. We tend to agree, seeing as we took the survey ourselves and we know we're biased. They are encouraged by the......

According to an article today's PI, it looks as if the city will be spending some money to study the possibility of adding more streetcars to the city's streets. The Transportation Committee passed a bill approving a feasibility study for six lines yesterday. The study, as approved by the committee, would estimate construction costs per mile and yearly operation and maintenance costs for the six lines. Among other issues, it would identify detailed street corridors,......

Riding the bus to work the other day, our heart skipped a beat when we noticed signs taped to the window heralding the arrival of new spring schedules (they're blue!). Once we'd calmed down, we realized how silly it is to get excited over the prospect of a slight change to our bus schedule. It was the kind of self-deprecating experience we figured would make a good lede for a post informing you, gentle......

According to the Seattle Transit Blog, the University link of our not-sure-we-wanted-it-but-now-we-got-it--might-as-well-expand-it light rail system is getting the Federal funding it was looking for. It's headed to the President's desk with Seattle receiving the highest possible recommendation for funding from the Federal Transit Administration arm of the U.S. DOT. Screw you, Prop 1! Love you Patty Murray! Here's the Sound Transit release: The project connects the three largest urban centers in the region: downtown......

The South Lake Union Streetcar will begin an eight-week test period soon, according to the Seattle Transit Blog. First they will do a walk through test to ensure that the streetcars are able to clear branches, traffic signals, and other erroneous things that may disrupt the streetcar along the whole route. Once that is done they will do speed tests on Valley between Mercer and Westlake to see that the streetcar can achieve and maintain......

It’s been hard for us to admit this, greenie that we are, but a vote for Prop. 1 is in order, at least from this Seattlest's perspective. This has been hard because we're as environmentally friendly as they come. We ride our bike; compost; and we reduce, we reuse and leave the recycling as only as the last step of a long process. So the news we saw when we opened our e-mail this morning,......

The Seattle Transit Blog reported (and Seattlest echoed) the fact that 3rd Avenue Downtown is going to remain a transit-only corridor during rush hour way back in June, but since the press release just came out and it'll probably be in the papers tomorrow maybe we should revisit it. Based on the outstanding success in moving buses quickly and efficiently through downtown, Mayor Greg Nickels today announced that local transit agencies will continue to use......

--Seattle Transit Blog is reporting that 3rd Ave Downtown is all transit all the time even after the completion of the bus tunnel. --For some reason we're under the impression that the world at large would be interested in an account of this sale for tool nerds up in B'ham. --Lowest of the low tides is coming. --You really can just throw a "2.0" on anything right now. For instance: PR 2.0. --PETA says......