@MikeLindblom

Seattle Times transportation reporter 🚊🚸🚌🚗🚴🛹✈ 🏄‍♀️⛴️🚝🛶

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2 hurt in shooting on King County Metro bus seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

2 hurt in shooting on King County Metro bus

The King County Sheriff's Office says two people were injured on a bus Monday. They were taken to the hospital, one with life-threatening gunshot wounds.

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BART safety push sees crime drop, ridership rise in 2024 transittalent.com/articles/i…
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Hang on to your wallet - bumpy roads ahead if WA passes a road user charge, argues Charles Prestrud: washingtonpolicy.org/publica…

Hang on to your wallet - bumpy roads ahead

Even as legislators look to adding a mileage tax, road conditions would not get much better.

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Aaron Levine
@AaronLevine_17 Feb 2025
I don’t care what happens at #Mariners Spring Training. You won’t get a better video than this. Ichiro and Tucker.
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[earlier today] Vehicle hits light rail train near Othello Station in South Seattle seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

Vehicle hits light rail train near Othello Station in South Seattle

Last week, a man in a wheelchair lost his leg after crashing into the light rail at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Orcas Street.

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Getting your WA driver's license or renewing your car tabs could be tough this week seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

Why getting your WA driver’s license or renewing your car tabs could be tougher

Washington drivers will not be able to renew their licenses or car tabs online until Feb. 18.

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In a departure for WA governors, Ferguson avoids news conferences seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

Questions, please? Not now, says Gov. Ferguson

Early in his term, Gov. Bob Ferguson has broken from decades of tradition by declining to take questions from reporters at regular news conferences.

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Ed Prince
@CMEdPrince6 Feb 2025
Replying to @MikeLindblom @SoundTransit @ratemyskyperoom
#bringbackoursonics
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The @soundtransit Ridership Experience & Operations committee underway. The oft-maligned SeaTac/Airport Station ranked #2 in fall ridership. Westlake Station has retaken its pole position.
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High numbers at terminus stations suggest that light rail is appealing to a broader regional customer base past the 33-mile corridor, theorizes analytics director Raj Cheriel.
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Replying to @MikeLindblom @SoundTransit
Extra points to board member @CMEdPrince for rocking the KD35 Sonics jersey in his home office. @ratemyskyperoom
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We're hearing that some people are acting aggressively toward our plow drivers. Stop it. They have to drive slow to accurately put down product without wasting it. How 'bout we give our plow drivers a smile, or even a nice little wave.
Two meme photos of the sideyeing husky dog stacked on top of one another. One caption next to the top photo says Washingtonians when they want icy roads to be treated. The caption below next to the same meme says Washingtonians when our (WSDOT's) plows drive 35 miles per hour to treat icy roads.

ALT Two meme photos of the sideyeing husky dog stacked on top of one another. One caption next to the top photo says Washingtonians when they want icy roads to be treated. The caption below next to the same meme says Washingtonians when our (WSDOT's) plows drive 35 miles per hour to treat icy roads.

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WA Legislature considers in-car speed limiters to help curb traffic deaths seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

How to stop thrill-seeking drivers who ‘weaponize vehicles’? WA lawmakers eye speed limiters

The technology is similar to ignition interlock devices for people with histories of driving under the influence. Could it save lives?

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New WA insurance commissioner doesn't show a strategy yet to control auto insurance costs, except school driver's ed: seattletimes.com/business/wa… via @seattletimes

Will WA home and auto insurance premiums keep rising? Here's what to expect this year

Home, auto and health insurance rates are on the rise. Here's what insurance commissioner Patty Kuderer says her office can and can't do.

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It's early, so maybe she'll come up with something. The climate-change portion of this timely interview shows a bit more energy and upside potential.
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A food bank in upstate New York netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. But there was just one catch seattletimes.com/nation-worl… via @seattletimes

A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. But there was just one catch

An upstate New York food bank was offered more than 40,000 pounds of coho salmon — a bountiful feast.

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UW light rail station to close for weekend while I-5 nearby will lose a lane seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes

UW light rail station closes for weekend while I-5 nearby loses a lane

Light rail riders face a weekend closure of UW Station on Feb. 1-2, while motorists will see an unrelated one-lane reduction to I-5 nearby.

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[Bettridge's law says no] Can God speak to us through AI? seattletimes.com/business/ca… via @seattletimes

Can God speak to us through AI? These faith leaders are finding out

Ethical questions around using generative AI for religious tasks have become more complicated as the technology has improved, faith leaders say.

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Daniel Trubman
@dmtrubman27 Jan 2025
Eagles fans dangerously demonstrating why American transit agencies need to get serious about installing platform screen doors at rapid transit stations. – at Philadelphia, PA
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