A new Spokane bus route envisioned as a continuous and quick loop through downtown linking Browne’s Addition with the Spokane Community College campus has been delayed for at least a year.

Three options have emerged for the Children of the Sun trail connecting Hillyard to the East Central neighborhood as work on the North Spokane Corridor heats up over the next several years. One would include elevating the trail alongside the interstate, but bike and pedestrian interests are less than enthused about the idea.

Federal regulations concerning competition against private charters may limit what the public transit authority can do to help the issue facing Spokane schools. But the agencies are trying to work together to ease students' delays in getting to school. 

Federal officials sent a team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to the site of an Amtrak derailment in north-central Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized Sunday, officials said.

Paving work is done on the Harvard Road bridge over Interstate 90 in Liberty Lake. 

The Biden administration has announced it will prioritize funding for transportation projects promoting equity and sustainability. That has local traffic planners rethinking their pitches for federal cash. 

A single-engine plane crash Wednesday morning near Palouse, Washington, sent both occupants to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Transportation Security Administration officers discovered a 6-inch knife taped in the liner of a traveler’s carry-on bag during a routine screening at the security checkpoint Sept. 10 at the Spokane International Airport, according to a post on TSA Pacific’s Twitter account.

New transportation construction projects will cost $22 million in 2022. 

Closing the short on-ramp near the Thor/Freya couplet will speed up rush hour drive time on the freeway, but would make for longer pauses for cars hoping to merge at the next ramp to the east, traffic planners said. 

With the backing of the city of Spokane and support from City Councilwoman Betsy Wilkerson, the East Central neighborhood council and others, WSDOT recently submitted a grant that would allocate $1.3 million to “look at the potential of a land bridge across I-90.” 

Shannon Benn went door to door, soliciting input from her neighbors in Minnehaha.

The arrival of the City Line in neighborhoods including Logan and Chief Garry is coinciding with efforts to allow denser development along rapid transit lines within city limits. 

The Spokane, Spangle & Palouse Railway runs on 63 miles of track between Marshall and the Idaho state line, bringing grain and other goods north and taking fertilizer and other supplies south.

There's a new fork in Airport Drive, and you will want to pay attention when you reach it.

Spokane's $81 million in pandemic-relief money could be spent in many ways. Survey respondents have put a protected bike lane network on the list of desired projects, and a potential connection in West Central could be one of many steps toward making that system a reality. 

Patrick Carnahan and Charlie Hamilton, co-executive directors of All Aboard Washington, have spent the past week traveling the state to drum up support for expanded passenger rail service.

The headaches for drivers in Liberty Lake will get worse before they get better.