It can be freeing, in many ways, to come to work on the University of Washington campus without a car. You don’t have to find parking, or pay for it. If you find yourself somewhere other than your usual work location at the end of your day, you don’t have to wander back to your [...]

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A great commute can make a world of difference – but, of course, you have more than one person’s transportation needs to consider. Perhaps when you’re thinking about an ideal living place, you have to consider your spouse’s workplace location and your children’s daycare or school(s). You need a plan for how to get each [...]

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One evening in December, traffic problems were delaying Jordan Smith’s bus-to-train-to-bus commute. It would take him two-and-a-half hours to get home. But as he sat on a bus stuck in traffic, Smith calmed himself by repeating a mantra of sorts. “I was just telling myself, ‘The light rail is coming in March. The light rail [...]

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A quarter-century ago, the film “Back to the Future Part II” made some bold predictions about the state of transportation in the year 2015. The movie’s imagination ran a bit wild, and none of us use a flying car or a hoverboard to get around. But that doesn’t mean transportation hasn’t made some big advances, especially [...]

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The University of Washington’s Ride in the Rain challenge aims to help UW commuters find that bicycling can be a great commute year-round, even during the wet, wintry months. But UW faculty member Sharona Gordon didn’t need convincing. She prefers biking in the rain to riding in sunny weather. “The rain makes me feel connected [...]

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For 25 years, Brenda Rodgers had driven to work. It was the only commute she’d ever known. She drove to work when she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she continued to drive after she moved near Seattle. After she started working at UW Medicine as a senior project manager this summer – [...]

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