News Roundup: To Commemorate

• FTA awards $1.2 billion to Lynnwood Link. More on this next week.
• Metro operations will briefly pause Friday to commemorate the 1998 Aurora Bridge crash.
• Seattle tries grassroots pedestrian improvements where sidewalks will never come.
• Hilltop Tacoma Link extension breaks ground.
• Seattle budget maneuvers take some money from Safe Routes to School.
• Mudslide science ($).
• There's a way for Uber and Lyft to detract from transit, and a way for them to make transit better. Seattle has a unique opportunity to pick one next year.
• Broad Seattle upzone clears some nuisance lawsuits ($)
• Three great things that happened in the Northwest in 2018.
• Study suggests streetcar investments have some positive impact on new construction.
• A review of bikeshare in Cascadia.
• Portland throwing $36m at new bus and bike lanes.
• With the CRC sytmied, Portland is also considering a ferry to Vancouver.

This is an open thread. Happy Thanksgiving!