News Roundup: Streetcar
by Mike Orr from Seattle Transit Blog on (#68Q0Y)
Seattle's streetcar dithering criticized in federal audit ($). Federal grant administrators are getting anxious about delays in spending the City Center Connector grant money, and grants for the Broadway streetcar extension (from Denny to Roy), and a SODO overpass grant.
But the feds also gave Seattle a grant to improve SODO's pedestrian and bicycle safety. ($)
Free transit is extended to Seattle low-income housing residents ($)
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