News Roundup: A Faster Trip

• Seattle Neighborhood Greenways mayoral forum tonight, hosted by Erica C. Barnett and sponsored by STB and many other orgs, is sold out, but you can watch the live stream
• City and WSDOT settle lawsuit over waterfront roadway width.
• Snohomish Executive Dave Somers to head the PSRC ($).
• More assaults on Spokane Transit drivers.
• Central District upzones coming next.
• Summer entertainment at Angle Lake Station.
• This GeekWire article rightfully slams the deep-bore tunnel, but when tolling drops traffic volumes, that's a feature, not a bug.
• Yet another private micro-transit effort is starting up.
• Kent wants more light rail parking. Sumner getting more Sounder parking soon.
• Oregon Bill would strip many zoning powers from cities and neigborhoods.
• Amazon interns overwhelming Route 70 ($); more buses coming.
• Some in Pierce County would like to secede from Sound Transit.
• 6-year Seattle ferry terminal renovation starting this summer; schedules affected.
• The Everett Herald has a sensible editorial ($) on MVET changes.
• More cheap transit passes for low-income Seattleites.
• Bellevue wins $100m federal loan for transportation projects.
• Bremerton braces for a faster trip to Seattle; new buses to feed the ferry. Grand opening July 5th.
• New Amtrak locomotive facility coming to Seattle in 2019.
• C-Tran will run buses on shoulders.
• Transit would be a great solution to construction-related congestion, but both transit and road agencies are uninterested.
• Overcoming NIMBY resistance.
• I like the high speed rail boomlet, but asserting it will "pay for itself" is just setting people up for disappointment.
• What about electrifying freight trains?
• Google expanding into transit-friendly downtown San Jose.
• The singing bus driver.

This is an open thread.