News Roundup: The Trouble

• The Trouble with TransitScore. But those values correlate with home prices.
• Mercer Island-Sound Transit fight update.
• Pierce Transit service rollout a bit rushed, not all stops open.
• PSRC conducting a regional travel study. You can participate here.
• Carless millennial stereotype a little overdone.
• I-90 costs increase signficantly ($), but contingency fund will absorb it.
• ST Board responds to the MVET tempest, Olympia waits.
• Kitsap Transit ridership is down.
• New Kitsap foot ferry now has a schedule.
• Local companies with low driving commute shares.
• SDOT shares initial RapidRide H feedback.
• Pro-ST testimony finally gets to Olympia.
• Bike activists fighting to restore bike lanes in Madison BRT project.
• Key Arena proponents float improved Monorail service as a traffic mitigation.
• First Hill Streetcar fixed and back in operation - but with a speed limit of 7mph (!) in some places.
• Could King Street Station house an "international street food market?"
• Yet another carpooling app.
• Farewell, Pronto ($).
• King County Council formally approves Night Owl expansion.
• ST CEO Rogoff says they'll do a better job bringing development ($) from now on.
• Bainbridge Island exploring a pleasure train.
• Snohomish and Pierce growing rapidly ($).
• TriMet says drivers can't enforce fares.
• Idaho anti-transit bill introduced, then dies.
• AC Transit tries a new service model.
• Austin gondola proposal dies.
• This Ross Douthat proposal for urban policy is intelligent and provocative ($).

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