News Roundup: ahead of everyone
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#4MD3H)
Mercer Island Station (SounderBruce)- Link train hits, severely injures pedestrian ($) at Rainier Beach. In Kent, Sounder and Amtrak are apparently used for two suicides.
- SDOT requests $9m to move the Streetcar project along.
- Pierce Transit ahead of everyone on real-time info signs.
- Patch has informative interviews with candidates in Renton and Bellevue.
- Lots of problems with save-the-Showbox maneuvers.
- Now there's a business model that impounds e-scooters.
- Amtrak matching $750K ODOT grant to improve Cascades in Oregon.
- No fast ferries next week.
- Underground Tacoma Dome Link station is dead ($).
- CCC now scheduled for 2026, but still needs money.
- Roundup of candidate positions on the Streetcar.
- No one told me ST3 was going to destroy all the burger stands.
- Metro's apprenticeship program.
- Wherever parking is threatened, Lisa Herbold is there.
- CAHSR funds might end up going to local rail projects instead.
- Jarrett Walker is hiring.
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