Traffic around Seattle is bad and getting worse. Solutions are scarce. But a groundbreaking local study — now a decade old — and the experience of other cities may point toward a remedy, albeit an unpopular one: Pay to use the roads.
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Traffic alert: Expect long delays on I-5 and I-90 this hot summer weekend
Go early or go late if you expect to drive across the state this hot weekend, through lane closures in I-5 and I-90 work zones.
Issaquah student was doing 102 mph — and didn’t get a fine. Should fellow students be the judges?
Some teens in the Puget Sound region can arrange for traffic tickets to be diverted to student-run court and those infractions removed from their driving...
Micro-transit firm Chariot to join Seattle market
The latest transportation option in busy Seattle will be Chariot, 14-seat minibuses for direct commuting and last-mile employee shuttles.
A clinic mix-up leaves pregnant Issaquah woman in dark about Zika risk
The woman didn’t find out for months that she was likely infected with the virus that can cause serious birth defects. Clinic officials say they’ll...
Life without I-90 express lanes: traditional commutes longer, reverse commutes shorter
The traditional commute for I-90 drivers working in Seattle got tougher, and the reverse commute to the Eastside quicker, in the first week after express...
‘I just knew I had to keep moving’: A Bellevue woman’s journey from teen mom to grad student
Deambra Johnson of Bellevue, a single mother who saw education as her path, pushed through poverty, violence and abuse to graduate from college. Now, she’s...