News Roundup: Genuine
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1WERB)
- Seattle and Vancouver leaders bat around ideas for genuine High-Speed Rail. They could start here.
- KCDOT looking for a new communications manager.
- Big transit measures on the ballot all over the country.
- Siemens LRV order, first reported here, now final.
- South Sounder delays for the rest of the year due to track construction in Auburn.
- Tacoma residents petitioning against center platforms (!) for Tacoma Link.
- A look at the ST3 station in Downtown Federal Way.
- SDOT replacing the problematic 3rd Avenue transit "kiosks".
- Seattle Council votes unanimously to lower speed limits citywide.
- It's obvious to me that the "missing middle" of Seattle duplexes is in the Single-Family zones that we refuse to modestly upzone.
- Public Disclosure Commission clears ST of wrongdoing in email mismanagement flap.
- Demand data shows Seattle may need paid parking till midnight in some neighborhoods.
- Bellevue Downtown Association endorses ST3.
- Spokane Transit Authority buys land for West Plains Transit Center.
- Seattle comprehensive plan moving along.
- Final 145th St. Station area plan passes in Shoreline.
This is an open thread.