News roundup: Merry Christmas
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#4X1RD)
- Peter Rogoff gets an "excellent" (not "outstanding") job evaluation ($).
- ECB checks in on Alex Pedersen's first few weeks in office. Not great!
- Republicans want to gut the general fund to subsidize highways deferred by I-976.
- University Place Mayor Kent Keel is the new ST Board Chair. Dow Constantine vice-chair.
- Sound Transit open to cutting car tabs ($), but they want to make up the revenue hole.
- Northgate Pedestrian Bridge construction begins Jan. 13th.
- Bellevue reaches the limits of car capacity ($).
- Landslide south of Tacoma cancels Amtrak runs ($); Pt. Defiance Bypass would have avoided it. It's incredible that there is still no firm plan to start using the new track.
- Limebike taking a strategic pause for the winter.
- There's a $40 bus to Crystal Mountain.
- Gov. Inslee releases his 2020 transportation budget proposal.
- How ride-hail companies could be helpful to cities.
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