Midweek Roundup: Oversized Stations
by Nathan Dickey from Seattle Transit Blog on (#6Y2CX)
Local Transit News:- Metro is increasing service on Routes 204, 930, and launching new Route 931 on Saturday, June 21 (Metro Matters)
- SDOT is currently recruiting members for multiple volunteer transportation advisory boards (SDOT Blog). Terms are generally limited to 2 to 4 years, depending on the Board.
- Emergency 1-Line Rail Repairs to Halt Downtown Service on Busy Weekend (The Urbanist).
- A person died Sunday afternoon after being hit by a train at the Edmonds waterfront (The Seattle Times, $). Few further details have been released.
- Extension of the 3rd avenue busway through Belltown is officially on ice (The Urbanist)
- The Sound Transit Board has officially selected its preferred alignment for the Tacoma Dome Link Extension (The Urbanist)
- Edmonds native and Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings presents a new episode of The Transit Effect" with Community Transit, focused on economic impacts of transit service (Community Transit)
- Improvements to Route 8 are on the horizon (Metro Matters). A proposal by the Fix the L8" campaign is in the works for the blog.
- E-scooters and e-bikes are popular, but a lack of safe riding infrastructure means more riders and bystanders are getting hurt (The Seattle Times, $)
- A massive study of travel data from 11,500 cities in 121 countries confirms that seemingly local planning choices can collectively drive major shifts in global climate outcomes (UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)
- Mayor Harrell announced a $2M bridge loan for the Seattle Social Housing Developer to kickstart its operations while it waits for revenue from the payroll tax passed earlier this year (The Urbanist)
- What laws should your city be passing now to make sure that a historic number of elders can age in place? (Streetsblog USA)
- The latest review of King County's Health Through Housing" initiative shows shows that 95% of the program's permanent supportive housing residents remained housed over the course of one year (The Urbanist).
- What tenants and landlords should know about WA's new rent cap law (Cascade PBS)
- Jon Talton observes Downtown Seattle's significant comeback (The Seattle Times, $)
- Seattle Subway thinks Sound Transit could save hundreds of millions, if not billions, if it shrunk the oversized stations planned for DSTT2 (Op-Ed; the Urbanist)
This is an Open Thread.