News Roundup: Gov. Inslee Insists
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#47AXF)
SounderBruce/wikimedia- SDOT improves SLU streetcar reliability.
- Stadium Station office complex gets approval.
- Gov. Inslee insists that the Columbia River Crossing will include light rail.
- Pictures of Roosevelt Station ($).
- ECB discusses the pile of upzone amendments, from all districts, that water down the change. This is disappointing, especially from councilmembers not running again, but we'll see which amendments are theater and which people will actually fight for.
- Microsoft pledges $500m for affordable housing ($), wants sensible policy changes.
- Council wants apartment developers to nudge their tenants ($) to not drive everywhere.
- Kent trying to keep a light rail maintenance facility away from their planned TOD hub.
- Mountlake Terrace comes up with more parking ($) during Link construction.
- Not many helmets with bikeshare, but also not many injuries.
- WSDOT hiring a bike/ped planner.
- Profiling ST's Ron Lewis.
- It doesn't take money to drastically shorten commutes, it just takes willpower.