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Riding the rails — over a floating bridge: GeekWire Podcast takes the train across the lake to Microsoft

The GeekWire Podcast rides on Sound Transit’s 2 Line, taking the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge from Seattle to Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, joined by special guests. Read More

‘Transformative’: Amazon and Microsoft celebrate opening of light rail line between Seattle and Eastside

Amazon’s David Zapolsky and Microsoft’s Brad Smith both posted videos on social media touting the Crosslake Connection as a huge transportation milestone for the region and thousands employees. Read More

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GeekWire AI summit takeaways: Token budgets, watermelon metrics, and the $5k weekend coder

Todd and John unpack takeaways from the GeekWire AI Summit, from token budgets and the surprising cost of vibe-coding to OpenAI shutting down Sora and why the chat era may be over. Plus: light rail trivia. Read More

GeekWire rides the world’s first floating-bridge train — Seattle tech commutes will never be the same

A preview of the Crosslake Connection, the region’s newest mass transit milestone, featured a trip between South Bellevue and new stations at Mercer Island and Judkins Park. The public will get to ride between Seattle and its Eastside neighbors starting on Saturday. Read More

Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail line from Seattle to Eastside

Events will take place at 10 stations across the expanded 2 Line from the International District to Bellevue and Redmond. Read More

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Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after… Read More

Microsoft’s new RTO policy starts Feb. 23, bringing Seattle-area workers back 3 days a week

Microsoft’s three-day-a-week return-to-office mandate starts Monday, Feb. 23, for Seattle-area employees. Here’s what to know about the policy, and some advice for commuters from the Bellevue Chamber: “Gird your loins.” Read More

Seattle’s ORCA transit system gets major tech upgrade with new ‘Tap to Pay’ feature

Seattle’s ORCA transit system is rolling out an upgrade that will let riders pay fares by tapping their credit card or smartphone — no dedicated ORCA card required. Read More

Light rail across Lake Washington — a major connection for Seattle-area tech hubs — to open March 28

The completed 2 Line will ultimately connect downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue and the Redmond Technology station at Microsoft’s headquarters campus. Read More

World-first in Seattle: Train crosses floating bridge in a preview of future link between region’s tech hubs

The testing of the Link light rail “Crosslake Connection” signals a major development in how future commutes could change for workers at Microsoft, Amazon and elsewhere. Read More

Microsoft and partners open major new pedestrian bridge to span campus and transportation needs

People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway between Microsoft’s old… Read More

Amazon commits $100M to help build affordable housing near Seattle-area light rail stations

Amazon is committing $100 million to help create up to 1,200 affordable housing units across the Puget Sound region as… Read More

Check out some of the tech and engineering that will enable trains to cross a Seattle floating bridge

It’s already a pretty cool engineering marvel that the Seattle region has floating bridges carrying cars, buses and bikes across… Read More

Uber offers discounts to commuters traveling by light rail in Seattle area

Uber, Sound Transit, and Seattle-area cities are partnering to encourage more commuters to use Link light rail in conjunction with… Read More

Tech Moves: Jeff Bezos picks new top advisor; Glowforge adds Amazon hardware vet; and more

Jeff Bezos has a new “shadow.” According to his LinkedIn bio, former VP of Kindle Jeffrey Helbling has taken over… Read More

Impact Hub closing Bellevue co-working and event space due to Sound Transit light rail construction

Impact Hub will close its Bellevue co-working and event space next week as Sound Transit prepares to take over the building for… Read More

Sound Transit in talks with Amazon to place package delivery hubs at Seattle-area rail stations

Here’s one way for Amazon to reduce package delivery times: decrease the number of places drivers have to go. Traffic… Read More

Elaine Chao

Trump’s pick for transportation secretary plays it safe on Seattle transit spending

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, held back from a commitment to continue supporting transit projects that… Read More

Sound Transit

Sound Transit riders can use cell phones in Seattle tunnels as phased rollout of service begins

Because almost no one can be caught waiting for anything these days without passing the time on their smartphone, those… Read More

Sound Transit’s train on track, U-District one step closer to being ideal tech hub

The University District is one step closer to becoming a more attractive tech hub. Sound Transit announced this week that… Read More

Sound Transit adding tunnel cell service in 2016

Sound Transit is making it easier than ever to annoy your fellow passengers with tunnel cell service. On Friday, Sound… Read More

Seattle ties for eighth nationally in tech-enabled transportation options

A new report places Seattle in the top ten U.S. cities with innovative transportation options. The report, released by the Washington Public… Read More

A bridge to Xbox: Microsoft to fund $33M project connecting employees to light rail

Microsoft will pay more than $33 million to fund a project that includes a pedestrian and bicycle bridge across state… Read More

FareBot tracks your public transit card history, raises privacy issues

Your ORCA card probably contains a lot more publicly accesible information than you think. Crosscut is out today with a story… Read More

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