News Roundup: Doing it Right
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1MANR)
- The Times has a handy calculator ($) to estimate what your ST3 tax burden would be.
- Kitsap Transit settles for $2.75m with an injured cyclist.
- Mercer Islander heroically fighting to expand special SOV privileges.
- 31% of Seattle riders are "all-purpose"; 23% "commuters"; and 46% "occasional." Of course, "all-purpose" riders make up a larger proportion of the rides.
- WSDOT studying SR 162, looking at alternatives for congestion relief.
- Jarrett Walker speaks out against parochialism.
- Hyperloop scheme revealed to be a circus.
- Portland considering new minimum parking requirements (!).
- For all its faults, Denver's Light Rail has made the city a better place.
- Paris trams are doing it right.
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