News roundup: August highlights
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#5QWA2)
LB Bryce/FlickrOne day I'll catch up to the present...
- More security on Metro
- New ST bus base will be at Canyon Park
- USDOT approves $3.84 billion loan for ST, will save $500m in interest payments
- It would personally benefit me, but the land use around this spot is not all that promising for a Link Station; best to mourn First Hill instead
- A good year for bike lanes ($)
- See Sound Transit's latest Transit Development Plan
- Lizz says Vision Zero is a long way off
- PT's Stream BRT already watering down
- Seattle expanding street-level uses
- Kyte is yet another choice to only have a car when you need one
- SDOT finally figuring out that road construction needs more bus lanes, not fewer; now tell WSDOT
- Lindblom tackles the question of high rail construction costs ($)
- Broad support for regional high-speed rail
- Yard in Bellingham launches a hydrogen-powered ferry
- Still talking about Spokane light rail ($)
- A Bellingham-Friday Harbor foot ferry?
- Environmental" rules actually used to thwart environmentally useful projects
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