Transit Maps: Puget Sound

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Submission – Unofficial Future Map: Sound Transit Network, Puget Sound, 2041 by Zachary Newell

February 8, 2017

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Submitted by Zachary, who says: This map is based on voter-approved expansions to the Seattle area’s light rail network and represents what the system should look like in 2041 when the extensions are finished. The light rail, which currently has two separate lines (one runs from the University of Washington area through downtown Seattle and on to the airport; the other is a short segment in Tacoma), will grow to a sprawling system connecting the […]

Official Maps: Sound Transit Link Federal Way Extension Alternatives

August 31, 2016

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Des Moines, EIS, Environmental Impact Statement, Federal Way, HDR, isometric, light rail, Link, planning map, Puget Sound, SeaTac, Sound Transit, USA, Washington

Here’s some interesting isometric-style maps that crossed my desk the other day. They’re part of a series of maps from the Sound Transit Federal Way Link Extension Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) Summary that outline all the proposed potential alignments from the soon-to-be-completed Angle Lake station south to Federal Way. I believe that the maps were produced by HDR as a consultant to Sound Transit, and they do quite a nice job of comparing and […]

Historical Map: Aerial View of the Puget Sound Area, Washington, c. 1940

September 17, 2013

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An old postcard showing a colorised aerial photo of Seattle and the Puget Sound. Points of interest and the ferry routes of the era (pre-Washington State Ferries, which only commenced service in 1951) have then been added to the image. It’s these ferry routes which allow us to date this charming postcard to somewhere between 1935 and 1942. The little Fletcher Bay to Brownsville ferry route (centre left on the photo) only operated between 1924 […]