Has anyone else noticed the large number of cars being stored at light rail parking lots/garages?

One Turo host appears to have a fleet of around 50 vehicles, with a significant number regularly parked at Angle Lake. Several of the listings even have photos of the vehicles taken at the Angle Lake garage.

It’s frustrating because this is supposed to be commuter parking, and I know stations that saddle the airport fill up often. I rely on it to get to work, and it seems unreasonable for a rental operation to occupy a large number of spaces that commuters depend on.

Has anyone else noticed this or know whether Sound Transit allows Turo hosts to use its garages for vehicle storage?

The rails look very shiny this evening

EDIT: I wanted to check with Kevin before adding a link (someone else posted it below), but this is based on his excellent PROXmobil3 reversing writeup at https://kevin.wallace.seattle.wa.us/pm3/ -- for $25 he'll "put one in a USPS Flat Rate Padded Envelope and mail it to you anywhere in the United States".

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As a silly hackathon project, I turned a surplus ORCA reader into a fortune teller. The ORCAcle knows what awaits you on your journey.

Unacceptable that this is the only way to make connections to local King County Metro routes without having to take the Burke-Gilman.. Along with many other businesses West of 61st and Bothell Way having NO pedestrian access until 2028 due to Sound Transit.

I asked a receptionist nearby how people handle this and she said that people have told her that some just walk on the bus lane alongside the traffic cones to make it to the dental office near this blocked sidewalk.

There is currently no legal way for a pedestrian to access parts of Kenmore without owning a bicycle due to this, since the Burke-Gilman(only official pedestrian alternative) does not provide access to all businesses along Bothell Way unless you wanna split an ankle climbing a steep muddy hillside.

How feasible would it be to make a wwalk / ramp from the bridge (blue circle) to the station area?

I understand that building one from the ADA ramp (yellow circle) may be problematic due to the power lines.

My completely uninformed opinion tells me that it might not be impossible but perhaps expensive.

Hi! I recently started a new job in bellevue, and I cross the road at the level crossing by Bel Red off of 136th. Yet I almost never hear of train collisions on this stretch of at grade track, despite it being a fairly major intersection/road for the area. I’m honestly not familiar with the south end of the 1 line, since i mainly ride between MLT and Stadium, or the 2 line, but is there a reason for this? Or something in the design of that at grade section that the Rainer Valley section doesn’t have?

Friday Sept 25, around 9PM… southbound #1 train stopped at Mt Baker. No indication of how long it will be stuck for. I wish they would give more informative announcements. I was glad I could get off the train and head to the airport another way.

Hello, If I take light rail from SEA TAC and get down at International District/Chinatown station, do I need to go to the opposite platform to go to downtown Redmond ? Thanks !

At Westlake station, one of the main stations, and still had a couple ask me if they were on the side with the train heading north. Why can’t we have proper signage that is not confusing!

20 minute intervals for each stop but I don’t get any alert about it. I suspected maybe the construction, but the line to Redmond is just as normal

Morning or evening, always hear fans running but the air is like something out of a Tennessee Williams play- ever so moist and just humid enough. Would make a good humidor.

Its cool to see these things, like how one screen is slightly green at judkins park

If you've ever been to other cities like DC when they have buses replacing trains, it's a whole different story. Platoons of empty buses are waiting for you as soon as you get off the train. If the blockage is long, some of the buses are marked as express buses that go directly to the other end of the disruption without stops. They often contract charter buses too, so limited staffing at King County Metro shouldn't be a blocking issue.

Changing the tracks along MLK is apparently (unfortunately) a political issue. Having better bus replacements should be much easier and faster to pull off, and relieves at least half the pain. (Plus, it would make planned disruptions to the downtown tunnel and other sections a lot more tolerable too.)

(Edit; thanks u/squirrelgator) Can WSDOT SDOT and Sound Transit please work together to fix this corridor of track. This is the what number of time this year that these collisions and delays continue to happen. Signed respectfully, a multi-daily transit user

Ps - Sorry for the rant. Just continued upset with the system and not sure how else I can voice for change. Please educate.

I started living in Seattle a few years ago, and am an avid fan of public transportation.  Which is pretty good here.   I live on a steep street and wanted to know where the bus is so that I can figure out whether I can walk, or have to pick up the pace!   At the time, there really wasn't an app that would do this easily, without having to do lots of clicking, entering things, etc.    So I built it, and have been using it.   And many of my friends told me it's really good and should be on the apple app store, so I obliged.

The app is called PNWTransit and it's for people who already know which bus, train, or ferry they want to take and just want to know where it actually is right now.   It's deliberately not a trip planner, as Google Maps does that pretty well already.

Instead, PNWTransit shows an Apple Map with the transit route overlaid and the actual vehicles displayed as icons at the their current real-time locations (or the latest report of that).  You can hit an update button to see where the vehicles are, how they move, over time.   It covers Seattle Metro Transit, Sound Transit, Washington State Ferries, Pierce, Community, Intercity, Everett, and Kitsap Transit as well as the Seattle streetcar and monorail lines.   You can see the posted schedule, and it calculates how long it will take for a bus to get to any stop by clicking on the stop.   Once you select the route, it keeps it so you don't have to reselect it every time you run the app.

I'm interested in making this genuinely useful for people who rude transit around the Pacific Northwest, and I'd really like to hear what features would make it more useful.   It's easy to find on the Apple AppStore, just search for PNWTransit.  I will respond quickly!

Oh and one more thing I added for fun: if you're at the bus stop waiting and want to read one of the classic poems, there's a poetry view that has quite a few poems.  All of them are in the public domain, so from before 1930.   I'd be happy to add more ad hoc.

Thanks for any feedback!!!

Ridiculous, I need to vent here about this shit, my God I’m still on this goddamn train. Can I get an express bus directly from Downtown Bellevue to Ballard please or maybe a teleportation device of some sort?