News Roundup: Lukewarm
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1YN2H)
- Local climate scientists strongly urge a YES vote on I-732.
- PSRC declares ST3 conforms to regional goals.
- No-on-ST3 campaign funded by all the right enemies.
- Seattle task force to address bike safety and the CCC.
- West Seattle Water Taxi breaks ridership record, around what a middling bus line carries.
- Lake Forest Park Council endorses ST3. So does Tukwila.
- Dave Roberts explains the whole debate on I-732. If it loses, and the "Alliance" follows through with their plan to go in the 2018 midterms, we really are screwed.
- I'm lukewarm about a park-like lid over I-5, but if we put housing there I am 100% in.
- How we blew it with Forward Thrust.
- PT has new tech to avoid pedestrian accidents.
- The Seattle City Council's position on housing seems to be no to microhousing, yes to tents.
- Jon Talton's objections to a Vancouver-like foreigner tax ($) are more about legal authority than economic merit.
- It is incoherent to support climate action and oppose density.
- A new bargain edits the HALA "grand bargain."
- BRT is not cheaper than light rail.
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