Seattle

Seattle-Based Elevator Consulting Services Joins VDA

Vertical-transportation (VT) consultancy VDA, Inc., headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, announced on November 11 that Elevator Consulting Services, Inc., (ECS), based in Seattle with offices in Portland, Oregon, and...

Escalators Out At Multiple Seattle Transit Stations

Sound Transit, Seattle’s public-transportation system, is being hit by escalator breakdowns at multiple stations, 770KTTH says. The report found there were broken escalators during the opening weeks of light rail station in...

Broken VT In Downtown Seattle Transit Stations An Issue

A dozen escalators and one elevator in the four downtown stations of the Seattle transit tunnel remained broken as of the first week of July, Mass Transit reports. When 2021 began, 28...

Seattle Sound Transit to Add Smart Sensors to VT

In Seattle, new Sound Transit trains have recently been put into service with futuristic lights around the doors and windows where the lights change color to indicate different stages of...

Construction Launches on Amazon’s Bellevue 600 Tower

Construction has begun on Amazon's new Bellevue 600 office building, a tower that sees the company expanding its footprint on the Eastside, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on March 31. Demolition crews have...