"From Rails to Trails," premiering Oct. 15 on PBS, chronicles how tens of thousands of abandoned tracks were converted to ...
The film was born out of Peter Harnik’s book “From Rails to Trails: Making of America’s Active Transportation Network.” ...
Under a nearly full moon and the gaze of giddy rail fans, Sound Transit accomplished a necessary feat, by running an electric-powered railcar across the I-90 floating bridge. The first trip, completed ...
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Meet us on the rail trail

Step onto a rail trail in your community, and you’ll see parents teaching children to ride bikes, retirees walking together at sunset and neighbors greeting neighbors. These trails are not red or blue ...
While trains crossing floating bridges aren't new, Seattle's electrically powered Crosslake Connection is an astonishing ...
SEATTLE — Despite a funding shortfall amounting to tens of billions of dollars, Seattle and King County officials are rallying to press forward with light rail extension plans, particularly to Ballard ...
Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...