News Roundup: Not Nearly Enough
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#3VMD2)
- Mayor Durkan's grim record on transit.
- Electric buses also have public health benefits.
- Many bus riders apparently not reading STB.
- This Times article ($) on streetcar mishaps got a lot of attention, but it's not clear what facts actually emerge in the article.
- You won't believe what the WSDOT head said. I'm proud of him.
- Sound Transit car-tab lawsuit ($) dragging on.
- Limebike is winning the bikeshare wars.
- Another interim director for SDOT.
- Amazon paying $1.5m for more bus service.
- Seattle's new design review process adds more obstacles and costs to development.
- Stakeholders walk around Alaska Junction and look at Link station locations.
- More big buildings coming to the U-District. As with all development news, it's not nearly enough.
- Big plans for Downtown Renton, but there isn't much about added density.
- Meanwhile, Everett is embracing growth.
- Tomorrow I'll have a story where I count bus routes, but that's stupid.
This is an open thread.