News Roundup: This Month
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#3YQ9B)
- Mike Lindblom writes a fair deep dive on the 85th St BRT Station ($).
- ST to talk with Lower Queen Anne about station locations Sep. 20.
- The pro-CCC coalition ($) is impressively broad.
- The bus stop improvement plan was scuttled by privacy concerns.
- "Adaptive signals" are not great.
- Nuisance lawsuit against ST3 car tabs thrown out.
- Swift Blue Line going back to 10 minute headways this month.
- SDOT Director is a good gig, if not with great job security.
- Meetings on 145th/SR522 BRT this month.
- Some riders not happy with Access.
- WSDOT trying several things ($) to reduce I-405 congestion.
- Puget Sound is still driving more, but less per person.
- Cascade coalesces a campaign around a limited set of projects, which is wise.
- SDOT pitting Eastlake bike lanes against on-street parking.
- It's the single family zones where Seattle is losing tree cover.
- Seattle may tax Uber and Lyft, at least in downtown.
- Lime may bring its scooters and bikes to Tacoma.
- We endorsed Joe Nguyen in the 34th District, but Shannon Braddock's position on car tabs is totally reasonable.
- 360 more units for Redmond.
- Rents in Seattle stabilize.
- ST hiring a communications intern.
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