News Roundup: Up for Sale

• Mercer Megablock is up for sale.
• Sen. Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) trying to fund a new transportation package ($) with a carbon fee.
• Link escalators a disaster, but you knew that already.
• Redmond Mayor John Marchione is the new ST Board chair. He's been pretty good on the board.
• Angst over Tacoma Link construction staging.
• Jan 14th meeting with ST about Kent Station parking and the coming Link station.
• Some good trends in how Seattle gets around.
• If in 2018 John Niles is arguing that Link isn't enough transit, I think an important part of the argument has been settled. Although the pause he proposes is counterproductive, and I'm more pessimistic about Snohomish County ridership than he is, I fully support a close look at capacity-enhancing options. A simple, if partial, solution is to buy better railcars.
• Transit-oriented development plan near TIBS could displace some immigrant businesses ($).
• Sound Transit has a 2019 budget.

This is an open thread.