News roundup: why transit is expensive

• Volunteer for ST's Citizen Oversight Panel
• Sound Transit appealing Mercer Island permitting decision
• Sharrows as a compromise" between bike lanes and doing nothing
• Kitsap Transit buys a used foot ferry as a Southworth backup
• Here comes the Northgate Pedestrian bridge
• Virtual tours of this year's new Link stations
• Everett considers an offensive" to bump itself up in Link priority
• Checking in on C-Tran
• More ST land donated for affordable housing
• SBB reports on the endless quest to fix Mt. Baker
• Lowering highway speed limits
• Land use planning in the area south of Tacoma
• Two-person freight railroad crews ($) still required
• Suburban road grids make buses more expensive
• Cut-and-Cover is Underrated"
• Study says it's largely the sacred public input" that makes infrastructure in the US cost so much

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