On Street Level: Random Thoughts on our Urban World

If you visit the website of Sound Transit (greater Seattle’s main public transportation provider), you will notice a major announcement indicating that light rail has finally begun testing along it’s initial route between downtown Seattle and the SeaTac airport.  Expansion routes both north of downtown and east towards Bellevue will follow in the years to come.  To see an interactive map of the route, you can click here.  I for one believe this is long overdue.  Seattle may be one of North America’s largest cities without some form of faster public transit.  The city’s mass transportation system cannot simply sustain itself without something more substantial than buses within the inner city.  I will be visiting Seattle sometime later this year and look forward to seeing the progess on this exciting new development.  You can visit the Sound Transit website here.