News roundup: it’s just talk

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• 1,500 free ORCA cards ($) for public housing residents.
• Montlake freeway station is closed indefinitely.
• The era of cheap, plentiful bikeshare appears to be over.
• Employers can talk about encouraging transit use all they want, but if they're building huge parking garages ($) it's just talk.
• ST ticket machines downed by an outage ($).
• Official report slams everybody involved in the Amtrak crash.
• Last chance ($) for Mountlake Terrace station comments.
• Mixed use by Mercer Island Station.
• Downtown bus stop changes.
• An update on Lynnwood's TOD plans ($).
• New bike limits on the water taxi.
• Transit to 12 great parks.

This is an open thread.