News Roundup: Ditch Your Car

• What YIMBYs should learn from New York's ethnic neighborhoods
• Lyft, Metro, and Zipcar want you to ditch your car
• Lime scooters are up and running in Tacoma
• LOL: This Teacher Was Taking Three Buses To Work, So Her Students Surprised Her With Better Public Transit Infrastructure
• Denver launches its version of ORCA LIFT
• This Q&A in the Times on bus bunching is really helpful
• Everett goes for more density
• The plan for viaduct closure is highly car-focused
• WSDOT capital projects are facing many of the same budget increases as SDOT and ST.
• Sound Transit and the city of Kent are at odds about how to accommodate bus traffic with the expanded Sounder parking garage
• King County is hiring a Deputy Ombuds for Transit
• Apparently light rail stations and Whole Foods are the keys to getting apartments built
• Transit makes it easier to breathe
• Florida's private high-speed rail company is buying the LA-Vegas high-speed rail company
• "Missing link" in Lynnwood's interurban trail gets completed
• It's been 50 years since Seattle's Freeway Revolt. Time to get the band back together?
• One small change to New York intersections is saving pedestrians' lives

This is an open thread

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