News Roundup: Letting It Burn

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• What if there were an oil train fire in the GN tunnel under Downtown Seattle? Due to the hazards of sending in first responders, the city may just let it burn.
• KING 5 writes up the transit+strollers policy change. Ahem, I wonder where they got the story?
• A few new cracks and settlement issues have been reported on the Viaduct, but not enough to change SDOT or WSDOT's assessment of the Viaduct's usability. And AWV Project Manager Matt Preedy also has a new job, at Sound Transit ($).
• How to make a Mercer Island bus transfer point sound menacing? Call it "an intercept".
• Bellevue and Sound Transit have signed their East Link MOU, clearing the way for construction to begin.
• "Why would we not have just as nice of things as Seattle?" - The Spokesman-Review has a good write up of STA's Proposition 1, including that quote from the Pro campaign
• Suburban ST Board members are out with a joint op-ed supporting ST3 funding. ($)
• The 'unenforceable' law is back: Ed Orcutt is trying to cancel state-funded transit service on SR 99. ($)
• Jeanne Kohl-Welles will seek to fill the shoes of the retiring Larry Phillips, running for a seat on the King County Council ($)
• The Federal Way Link EIS has been released a couple days early. The comment period begins Friday.

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