News Roundup: Hopeful

• California's full-on legislative assault on NIMBY obstruction. Take note, Olympia.
• Local car ownership dropping ($).
• Erica interviews Mayoral hopeful Nikkita Oliver, and as always, goes deep on housing.
• Rep. Jessyn Farrell and Jenny Durkan are also running for Mayor.
• Cascade Bicycle Club trying to get accessible Link station designs in Redmond. Good for them for speaking up at exactly the right time: the open house is tonight.
• Big I-90 changes coming soon.
• Amazon building housing for the homeless ($).
• Farebox recovery ($) across major transit agencies.
• 300 more parking spaces at Pike Place Market. Uh, yay?
• Former WSDOT Secretary Doug McDonald isn't always right, but he's always interesting, and not a car-first person by any means.
• Distracted driving law is now tougher.
• Tacoma has a new City Manager, same as the old.
• Here's a fun parable from Ontario: light rail plan is value-engineered into tunneled BRT, which then becomes at-grade BRT, and now businesses are tweaking the bus lanes.
• Toronto may get cars out of the way of their streetcar.
• The pleasure of track maps.

This is an open thread.