Midweek Roundup: The Shoup Doctrine

Local Transit News:

• Election season is ramping up: here's how the two candidates for King County Executive differ on the future of light rail (The Seattle Times, $)
• King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda sent a letter to SDOT urging the agency to reconsider its rejection of bus lanes on Denny Way (BlueSky)
• How building light rail to West Seattle and Ballard became a $30 billion project (The Urbanist). When voters said yes to moving forward with Sound Transit 3, the$54 billion price tagwasn't exactly a mirage, but it was close to one."
• King County Metro appears to be pivoting away from battery buses and back toward a slow expansion of the trolleybus network (The Urbanist)
• From Rails to Trails," a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton, charts the impact of the Burke-Gilman Trail on the national rail-trail conversion movement (The Seattle Times, $)

Other Transportation:

• How Translink (Vancouver, BC) escaped the transit death spiral after the pandemic (CityLab)
• Brian Potter dives into why more and more pedestrians are being killed in motor vehicle accidents each year since 2009 (Construction Physics).
• The existence of walkable cities worldwide proves inclement weather (typically) has little impact on walkability (Human Transit)
• A new NRDC map shows car-free living and the factors affecting car usage in United States (Natural Resources Defense Council)
• A Car Youtuber" has become an unlikely advocate" for walkable cities and transportation alternatives (CityLab)
• The hosts of The War on Cars" podcast give a peek into their new book exploring a future where cars are no longer the primary mode of travel (StreetsBlog)

Land Use & Housing:

• A buried report" shows severe limits to Girmay Zahilay's proposal to leverage King County's $1 billion of bonding capacity to build workforce housing (The Urbanist)
• Mayor Harrell claims to be responsible for opening nearly 3,000 emergency housing units, but most of those units were funded before he took office, and largely replaced units which closed in that time (The Seattle Times, $)
• The founder of the National Zoning Atlas, Sara Bronin, is winning awards for her work mapping restrictive zoning in the USA (CityLab)
• Research using drones equipped with infrared cameras mapped out the significant cooling and heating effects of vacant lots with and without vegetation, respectively (Texas A&M)
• Donald Shoup's legacy continues with a new book, The Shoup Doctrine, and a new UCLA research center for Parking Policy (StreetsBlog)

This is an Open Thread.