News Roundup: De-wiring

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• KIRO did an interesting investigation into why the new (post 2015) trolley buses keep dropping off the wires Update: this is apparently an old story
• Mayor Durkan announces a missing middle housing task force
• WSDOT spending $4.4M to market the new downtown tunnel
• On a totally unrelated note, here are all the new single-family homes built in the city in recent years
• Higher fines for HOV violators?
• Sound Transit's positive train control (PTC) project is done, clearing the way for Amtrak's return this spring
• A man was killed on a Metro bus in SODO
• The King/Snohomish Master Builders argue for more density. See also: Oregon.
• The Democratic majority in Olympia is going to have another go at spending more on highways and less on transit
• Zoning and the Green New Deal
• Seattle DOT is planning to allow right-on-red from the tunnel exit through the Dexter bike lane. Seems problematic?
• Why can't Seattle build affordable housing on land it already owns?
• Yep, the tunnel is terrible
• Eastside officials looking for ways to spend Microsoft's money
• Road pricing can be equitable
• $160M approved for the waterfront LID
• Seattle transit ridership still bucking trends

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