|
Title |
Description |
Link |
| Washington Policy Center, transportation
publications |
Think tank with a free-market orientation,
focused on Washington State. |
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications_topic.html#transportation
|
| Cascadia Center for
Regional Development |
Part of
Discovery Institute think tank; focuses on long-term transportation
governance improvements in the central Puget Sound region. |
http://www.discovery.org/cascadia/
|
|
Puget Sound Public Interest Transportation Forum
|
Critical examination by civic
activists of Sound Transit light rail and commuter railroad projects. |
http://www.bettertransport.info/pitf/ |
| Transportation Choices Coalition |
Education
and advocacy association seeking more opportunities for travelers to take a
bus or train, ride a bike, or walk, as well as drive -- but with seemingly
little regard for cost-effectiveness in government investments. |
http://www.transportationchoices.org/ |
| Washington REALTORS® Quality of Life initiative |
Aimed at demonstrating Washington State's failure to
accommodate growth as the underlying cause driving increased traffic
congestion, sprawl, and lack of home choices affordable to working families. |
http://www.itsapriority.com |
|
Reason Foundation, Mobility Project
|
Think tank initiative to develop
and implement a framework for removing congestion as an obstacle to mobility
in American cities. |
http://www.reason.org/mobility/index.shtml
|
| American Dream Coalition |
Nationwide association that
considers so-called "smart growth" to be a threat to mobility, affordable
housing, and freedom in the United States. |
http://www.americandreamcoalition.org/
|
| Innovation Briefs |
Newsletter from transportation
expert Ken Orski at Urban Mobility Corporation in Washington, DC |
http://www.innobriefs.com/ |
| WSDOT real-time traffic monitoring on regional
freeways |
Live video feed from WSDOT |
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/
|
| City of Bellevue, real-time traffic monitoring
on city arterials, with access to video cameras |
Picture from City of Bellevue |
http://trafficmap.cityofbellevue.net/
|
| King County Metro Transit Trip Planner |
Enter address of origin and address
of destination, and this site tells you what bus offers the journey. |
http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov/
|
|
WSDOT SR-520 page
|
Focus on the most northerly of the
two floating bridges across Lake Washington. |
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/SR520Bridge/
|
| WSDOT I-90 page |
Focus on the newest of the two
floating bridges. |
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/I90/TwoWayTransit/
|
| WSDOT I-405 page |
Picture from WSDOT |
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/I405/
|
| Sound Transit Progress Reports |
Unusually
candid reports on the progress of Sound Transit are posted here quarterly. |
http://www.soundtransit.org/x2168.xml
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