News Roundup: Selling Out
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#186EJ)
- Biking to UW Station is" popular.
- Stats about Capitol Hill Station.
- U-Link creates overjoyed commuters ($).
- As revenues improve, ST sends more money to Federal Way Link preparations.
- Mayor Murray wants to electrify Seattle's cars.
- Housing construction depressing rents.
- Judkins Park Station breaks ground next year.
- Community Transit speaks up for transit users everywhere, argues against changes to I-405 tolling.
- The Stranger's light rail issue is quite charming. Its sudden discovery of the Rainier Valley, though several staffers have lived there for years, is amusing. But I love it!
- Bellevue getting very aggressive about safe biking.
- Do Westlake transit improvements go far enough?
- TriMet's BRT plan turns out to be slower than the regular bus, and to their credit they're changing course and scrapping it.
- Spokane's STA thinking about how to move forward after a narrow defeat on the ballot.
- Sound Transit is hiring fare enforcers.
- Seattle spending $20m to upgrade Pike/Pine downtown.
- Federal Way is in the bracket for most egregious sea of surface parking.
- Protests about U-Pass cost increases.
- Puyallup Eagles mull selling out to Sound Transit for a parking garage.
- Pierce Transit trying to get a developer for dense housing in the Dome District.
- Roosevelt Avenue street work about to start.
- Angle Lake Station may get a new hotel.
- 247 units planned for 10th & Jackson.
- Ben Franklin Transit still looking for General Manager.
- Second Avenue cycle track coming next year to Denny Way.
- Mason Transit GM done in by sexual harassment.
This is an open thread.