News roundup: about right
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#5CFAG)
- Free vanpools for West Seattle
- Uber prices rising due to new regulations on labor costs
- An excellent preview of the coming Transportation agenda ($) in the legislature
- Washington's draft Active Transportation Plan
- It's likely it'll turn out fine, but the fact that the I-90 bridge is so innovative is a cause for concern as well as pride
- City rankings are dumb, and the article title is simply incorrect, but 10th best carfree city in the US sounds about right
- 20 years (!) of Tacoma freeway construction
- How to pick a bus battery
- Paid parking coming to the Junction
- Sounder mudslides are back
- Another grant means another microtransit" program instead of just more buses
- Alon Levy reports that the Seattle Process is spreading, which is bad news
- Demand dropping, rents drop too, upending years of sloppy thinking about gentrification
- Seattle Children's Hospital seeks a transportation planner
This is an open thread.