Nicholas Deshais

Spokane

Transportation Reporter at Seattle Times

@SeattleTimes transportation reporter. Here for all your ferry, bike, pedestrian, auto, transit and generally awesome, mobile, multimodal news.

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Articles

WA gets just 2 bids to build new electric ferries, and the prices are in

2 days ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais

As the state ferry system struggles to recover from years of diminished service and a lack of boats, just two U.S. shipyards submitted bids Monday to build a new generation of hybrid-electric boats for Washington State Ferries. The proposal from the sole in-state company — Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, in Freeland on Whidbey Island — was significantly higher than the other bidder, Eastern Shipbuilding Group from Panama City, Fla.
Seattle’s next move to slow Rainier Avenue: Plant trees in center lane

2 days ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais

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. Flowers often grow through cracks in the sidewalk, but planting trees in the middle of the street is something new. At least for Rainier Avenue.
Nicholas Deshais: Light rail grand opening in Redmond draws big crowds

3 days ago | tri-cityherald.com | Nicholas Deshais

May 10-REDMOND - Excited crowds gathered under warm and mostly cloudy skies Saturday to welcome Sound Transit's two newest light rail stations, as the 3.4-mile extension of the regional system pushed deeper into this Eastside city, a once rural redoubt on the northern tip of Lake Sammamish.
Light rail grand opening in Redmond draws big crowds

4 days ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais |Mike Lindblom |Michael Lindblom

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.
Navega barco eléctrico ‘volador’ por costa de Washington

6 days ago | elsoldeyakima.com | Nicholas Deshais

Cualquiera que espera ver algo fuera de lo común en la Bahía Elliott lo consiguió esta semana. Un pequeño barco eléctrico se elevó en el agua sobre un par de alas y se deslizó por el paseo marítimo frente a muchos pulgares levantados y cámaras de teléfonos inteligentes. En su interior, mientras el barco se inclinaba y rápidamente alcanzaba velocidad, el agitado viaje se volvió repentinamente suave, y la sensación de flotar dio paso a la de volar.
Nicholas Deshais: ‘Flying’ passenger ferry sails Puget Sound

6 days ago | tri-cityherald.com | Nicholas Deshais

May 8-Anyone hoping to catch sight of something out of the ordinary on Elliott Bay got it this week as a little, fully electric boat lifted out of the water on a couple of blades and wheeled around the waterfront in front of many an upraised thumb and smartphone camera. Inside, as the boat inclined and quickly got up to speed, a choppy ride suddenly glided smoothly, and the sensation of floating gave way to that of flying.
Passenger ferry takes ‘flight,’ hoping to one day call Puget Sound home

6 days ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais

Anyone hoping to catch sight of something out of the ordinary on Elliott Bay got it this week as a little, fully electric boat lifted out of the water on a couple of blades and wheeled around the waterfront in front of many an upraised thumb and smartphone camera. Inside, as the boat inclined and quickly got up to speed, a choppy ride suddenly glided smoothly, and the sensation of floating gave way to that of flying.
Qué aprobó la Legislatura de WA; cómo podría afectar a conductores

1 week ago | elsoldeyakima.com | Nicholas Deshais

El periodo legislativo de este año en Olympia estuvo dominado por conversaciones sobre déficits, impuestos e impactos de la administración de Trump. Pero, como de costumbre, los legisladores consideraron muchas iniciativas de ley que pasaron inadvertidos para quienes no son parte del personal legislativo, defensores o cabilderos. Algunas llegaron a la meta, otras no. El mundo del transporte –uno de los grandes mandatos de la Legislatura– no es la excepción.
Man in custody escapes at Sea-Tac Airport, takes light rail to Seattle's Capitol Hill station

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Nicholas Deshais

SEATTLE - Seattle police are searching for a man who escaped custody Sunday morning at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before fleeing in handcuffs by light rail. According to an airport spokesperson, Sedric T. Stevenson - described as a 5-foot-8 Black man with dreadlocks - was wanted out of Bowling Green, Kentucky, on unspecified warrants. He was being transported there by a "contracted agent," according to the port. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
Man in custody escapes at Sea-Tac Airport, takes light rail to Seattle's Capitol Hill station

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Nicholas Deshais

SEATTLE — Seattle police are searching for a man who escaped custody Sunday morning at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before fleeing in handcuffs by light rail. According to an airport spokesperson, Sedric T. Stevenson — described as a 5-foot-8 Black man with dreadlocks — was wanted out of Bowling Green, Kentucky, on unspecified warrants. He was being transported there by a "contracted agent," according to the port.