News Roundup: Second Thoughts

• Broadway businesses having second thoughts about the Aloha streetcar extension.
• Metro and SDOT hatching a plan to fix Route 8 on Denny. They should also look at the ideas Zach floated years ago.
• Three more Sounder round trips coming, plus previously deferred Kent and Auburn station access improvements.
• Pronto needs a bailout.
• Shoreline to present three concepts for the N 145th St corridor on February 24th.
• Metro experimenting with new pedestrian alarms ($).
• West Seattle tries to organize for light rail.
• New bill would tighten distracted driving laws.
• By modern standards, the destruction wrought by I-5 ($) is astonishing.
• Vulcan has plans for the Central District.
• SDOT's 23rd Ave work doesn't include significant mitigation money ($) for businesses, unlike ST work.
• It turns out Surrey Downs has yet more veto points to potentially delay East Link construction.
• A fun reflection on fringe benefits of riding the bus ($).
• A shooting on the 132 ($).
• No defectors yet from the Deep Bore Tunnel coalition.

This is an open thread.