News roundup: bonfire of the Limebikes
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#4SDJ4)
Paul Kimo McGregor/Flickr- Stats show black riders receive every level of ST fare enforcement action ($) out of proportion to their fraction of ridership. See our previous coverage.
- Open house coming on Kent Station parking improvements.
- 130th St community meeting pushes for 2024 opening, considers upzones.
- Microsoft puts more money into the HSR study.
- Council formally approves ($) eliminating "environmental" appeals of density, transit, and bikes. Background here.
- Bellingham now looking at e-scooters.
- Bonfire of the Limebikes.
- Sound Transit working on improving its shaky real-time data.
- King County Council proposes full Metro electrification by 2035, ($) instead of 2040. But it's aspirational, not a funded plan.
- Yancy/Andover Link alignment survives committee. The full board will decide on adding it to the EIS.
- Bill Radke asks Christof Spieler about Seattle Transit.
- In a good week for podcasts, Talking Headways talks to ST's TOD team.
- Vancouver going red.
- Streetsblog's Angie Schmitt will be in Ballard next Thursday.
- Missed this last week: The Seattle Times says to reject I-976
This is an open thread.