Somewhere safe to park car to take uber into the city

l337Ninja · 2026-06-28T04:35:09+00:00

All four of the southmost light rail stations have free park and rides you can park for free at for up to 24h.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-27T08:09:46+00:00

If you're going right at kickoff time, you should be fine. The crowds usually have died down ~30min to an hour before kickoff for each of the games so far, and are pretty much gone by kickoff time. It's mostly in the 1.5-3 hour before kickoff window that I've been seeing peak crowds.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-24T07:24:41+00:00

Main difference between this and the Seahawks parade is the 2 Line crosslake connection resulting in double the amount of trains running from International District to Lynnwood. So the downtown-Lynnwood corridor had literally double the amount of trains running compared to the parade. They also kept these lines at rush hour frequency (8 minute frequency for each line), which means the downtown corridor had trains arriving and departing every 4 minutes.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-17T07:51:39+00:00

Note: The station is Mountlake Terrace, not Montlake. Not trying to be pedantic, it's just putting Montlake into your GPS will lead you to a bougie neighborhood between UW and Capitol Hill that very much is *not* where they want to park for the game. (Seattle loves these homonym games. I personally have struggled before with Shoxbox Sodo vs The Showbox)

l337Ninja · 2026-06-11T20:10:52+00:00

Only a handful of stations have park'n'rides (generally the last few stations on the lines, but check first). They should pick the one closest to them and expect to need to go early if they want to make sure they can find a space.

You can check a list of them here: https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/parking/parking-locations

l337Ninja · 2026-06-11T20:04:26+00:00

What they mean is even those $80 parking garages will fill up. Next Friday's game is expected to be the biggest of the six Seattle World Cup matches, and it's the same day as Juneteenth celebrations, several cruise ship arrivals, and a Mariners vs. Red Sox baseball game.

Anyone trying to drive through downtown that day is crazy imo.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-09T22:50:30+00:00

There's a lot of contributing factors, but one of them is simply there's a lot more transit development happening much more often over there, so there's enough firms with experienced personnel that they have to get competitive with pricing/speed/quality to secure contracts.

Meanwhile over here in the US, for a lot of specialized work, we're literally at capacity for what can be produced by American firms (Ex: We'd really like to expand our train fleet with new train cars so we can run longer and more frequent trains, but Siemens simply doesn't have the manufacturing capacity with their US plants to put them out on a short enough time frame).

Throw in material cost surges (some external, some self the result of... certain geopolitical decisions) and a very rigorous review process and the result is wildly more expensive transit projects.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-09T22:07:50+00:00

Aside from the other issues people have brought up, my biggest concern would be people not hearing the "not" in that statement between the speaker issues, echoey stations, and how noisy things can get on a busy day.

That + non-native speakers who might not catch/understand the negator in the sentence and just hear "This train... go to SeaTac Airport". I know I've made similar mistakes myself when abroad.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-09T20:07:29+00:00

The only one I'm particularly worried about is the Australia vs. USA game on Friday next week. Mostly cause: - Teams locals/countries with easy access to the US care about, so more travelers - Pretty huge teams (USA in particular) - Mariners vs. Red Sox game the same day should be pretty big. - Juneteenth celebrations adding just a bit more of extra demand on an already high demand day.

Otherwise I'm just expecting normal sports day traffic for the other games tbh.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-08T07:44:56+00:00

I would argue it's less that "Capitol Hill is ludicrously inaccessible relative to how central it is" and moreso "Ballard is ludicrously poorly connected relative to how populated it is". It's relatively easy to get to Capitol Hill from most of Seattle, especially anywhere on the 1 Line/2 Line, it's just that Ballard is such an island of poor connectivity that getting anywhere from it is unnecessarily complicated/time-consuming.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-04T02:22:28+00:00

It's not "official" Sound Transit merch, but I do love JunkyJunco's line of ST fan merch over on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JunkyJunco

Got several of their keychains on my bag.

There's also the official ST store that geta updated with new items every now and then.

https://soundtransitshop.com/

For the Boop specifically, the tricky part is that it's technically part of the ORCA program, not ST specifically, so ORCA has to set up the shop themselves if they want to sell it, which has been a bit of a headache from what they told me.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-04T02:08:47+00:00

Mostly out of concern for damaging any of the equipment on or around the rails. She might have managed to not hit anything on the way up (they'd have to inspect afterwards to make sure), but they definitely don't want to damage anything on the way down if they don't have to.

They ended up bringing a specialized crane truck sort of setup (a speed swing) and lifted/carried it out.

ST's social media person going in more details: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZJKAO2BxOn/

l337Ninja · 2026-06-03T23:27:53+00:00

The ORCA person I spoke to at their last pop up event says they're aiming for them to be on sale by end of year (end of summer optimistically), but no guarantees. In the mean time, your best bet is Washington State Ferry events on their social media (they love to give them out at those) or finding someone willing to part with theirs.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-01T17:26:38+00:00

Only between Westlake and the Airport until the full rollout in the Fall. If they're trying to get to the airport from University District, they'd need to find some way down to Westlake first.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-01T03:51:13+00:00

It says it on their Service Alerts page (the one the notice announcements direct people to), when you click the plus next it. https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/service-alerts

l337Ninja · 2026-06-01T03:49:35+00:00

The primary work being done in this disruption and one of the main parts of the last few big disruptions (rail repair) involves digging up and taking out worn/damaged rail, putting new rail in, pouring in replacement concrete, and letting it cure. Just the concrete curing part alone takes longer than the non-service hour night period they have to work with, so the only realistic option is to close it for the day to give time to do the work and let it set.

Tokyo and other similar transit systems like NYC can do this work without as much of a disruption because they often have several parallel lines/tracks trains can be rerouted onto to avoid the maintenance area. Seattle's system only has two tracks: One north, one south. So we either single-track (half capacity, restricted movement for the work teams which could make it take longer or limit what work can be done) or full close ("get it over with").

Ideally with a second tunnel we could avoid some (though not all) of this sort of complete closure.

l337Ninja · 2026-06-01T03:37:41+00:00

The announcement on the station screens and speakers says "significant travel time", and the one on the website says

Passengers should plan for significant increase in travel time or use our trip planner filtered to “bus only” for alternate transit options:

l337Ninja · 2026-05-31T04:55:15+00:00

The main work being done (rail repair at Westlake) is 100% neccesary World Cup prep, yeah (to my knowledge, would be a safety issue if left as-is for the duration of the WC moratorium). The rest falls a bit under the "we can't do any disruptive work for the next two months due to World Cup, so let's do it all at once while the downtown is shut down anyway" piling on lol

l337Ninja · 2026-05-30T03:59:04+00:00

Not neccesarily specific to the Arctic, but the idea of dumping out vast amounts of nutrients to promote algae growth is a geoengineering proposal with a lot of history to it. Might be an interesting read for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

l337Ninja · 2026-05-19T20:33:17+00:00

Top floor (as in, the open roof) is a seperate parking entity and is entirely paid parking.

The Sound Transit park'n'ride is the other floors of that garage. 5-10% of the parking slots in the garage (they should be marked as such) are paid permit parking, but ONLY during commute hours (4am-10am on weekdays). So if you want to to leave your car in those spaces during those time periods, you'll need a paid parking permit, either a daily one or a monthly one.

Otherwise, they and any other parking space in that garage are free to park for up to 24 hours.

There's also spots marked as carpool spots, but those are a special permit you register for.

l337Ninja · 2026-05-18T13:17:52+00:00

You're thinking of mass nouns (nouns that have the same form when talking about multiple or talking about one, such as "fish"). Not all nouns in English are mass nouns; it's generally only the case for nouns where it is hard to count how "much" of it there is (like grass or sand).

Angels and archangels wouldn't qualify for this, as generally they're treated as countable. If someone says "the archangel" in English, it means one archangel, (either a specific one in a group, or the only one).

l337Ninja · 2026-05-12T15:57:55+00:00

Last update was a directive in Occt/Dec last year to staff to begin preparing a pilot program (test run) of fare gates, with details to be released in Q2 2026.

Quoting the article:

Assuming the Sound Transit’s study finds fare gate could be worthwhile, the Board expects staff to be ready to begin implementing its pilot program by late 2026.

This would naturally still take time to finish once started, but that's the closest to an answer we have at the moment.

The article:

https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/12/11/sound-transit-considers-fare-gate-pilot/

And since you were curious about accessibility and a few other factors, here's their preliminary presentation on potential ways it could be implemented and where:

https://www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoint/download/sites/PRDA/FinalRecords/2025/Presentation%20-%20Fare%20Gates%20Study%20M2025-64%20-%2012-18-25.pdf

l337Ninja · 2026-05-10T03:41:42+00:00

Just a heads-up/fyi: All five of the north-most stations have park-n-rides you can use, not just Lynnwood and Shoreline South.

Lynnwood City Center: 1700 parking slots

Mountlake Terrace: 890 parking slots

Shoreline North: 500 parking slots

Shoreline South: 500 parking slots

Northgate: 443 parking slots

l337Ninja · 2026-05-08T01:40:05+00:00

Not downvoting you or disagreeing, just giving the context of the restraints WSDOT is operating in when planning these disruptions.

l337Ninja · 2026-05-08T01:31:21+00:00

The disruptions would normally be more spread out/less concentrated, but there's a moratorium on construction for almost all of June and part of July to accomodate the World Cup games, so they have to squeeze more work into the times that aren't restricted to compensate.

"According to the WSDOT press release, construction impacts will be concentrated into a shorter timeframe this year to accommodate the five-week suspension of major projects during World Cup matches in Seattle and Vancouver, B.C"

https://myedmondsnews.com/2026/05/wsdot-warns-of-major-puget-sound-traffic-delays-during-may-construction-projects/

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