News Roundup: It’s Legal
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#3WG85)
- WSDOT funding the waterfront shuttle.
- 2nd Avenue bike ridership up 16% since 2015.
- Subsidized Uber/Lyft rides on Mercer Island now more expensive, still subsidized.
- Dungeness Line buses from Port Angeles to Seatac considering adjustments to route, schedule, fares. The old operator had separate buses to Port Angeles and Port Townsend. The new operator (Greyhound) makes Port Angeles riders sit through an hour-long detour to serve both.
- Lots of ST outreach in West Seattle this month.
- Pony gives up some patio for Madison BRT.
- Everett Transit is reeling, cutting back service.
- David Cole connects the dots on Mayor Durkan's passive-aggressive way of undermining transit.
- Spin noncommittal on remaining in Seattle. It would be a shame if SDOT had a great thing with competing bikeshare companies and screwed it up with too many fees.
- ST demolishing Mountlake Terrace homes to build temporary parking.
- Community Transit's Fall service change is coming.
- It's legal for a bike to run a red light ($) under some circumstances.
- An update on converting to electric buses.
- Joe Mangan argues for streetcars in Seattle.
- Demolition starts ($) around the future Lynnwood Station.
- We have way too much parking.
- Willamette Week asks readers for dirt on e-scooter riders, readers respond with horror stories about cars.
- Vancouver City Council asks Washington to build the Columbia River Crossing.
- Many of our readers, as teens, would have loved RailCamp ($).
This is an open thread.