Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public money are spent.

A commuter wrote to Sound Transit this month that light rail disruptions made her late four times to morning meetings, at a solar power business near Rainier Beach Station.

“As a result my manager marked me as unreliable in my recent performance evaluation, citing my ‘decision to get to work by Light Rail’,” she wrote elected officials in charge of the agency. She also found trouble on a weekend, caught in a stall Sept. 27 inside the Capitol Hill tunnel that plunged Sounders and Mariners fans into darkness for a minute. “Please help our Light Rail system and improve rider exper

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