Midweek Roundup: hope this helps

Local Transit News:

• Build the Damn Trains" is easier said than done (The Urbanist).
• Building planned infill stations for the damn trains to serve might be even harder (The Urbanist)
• Pierce Transit received national and local sustainability awards (Pierce Transit News)
• New and improved services are coming to Metro's Access Paratransit service, including same-day pickups, more reliable reservations, and more (Metro Matters)
• The West Seattle Light Rail Visioning Forum was rescheduled to Monday, Nov. 24 (West Seattle Blog)
• What it looks like to get from Seattle to Portland using only local transit (The Seattle Times, $)
• Community Transit's Swift Gold Line is very popular, but residents have concerns over exchanging parking for center-running bus lanes (Everett Herald)

Land Use & Housing:

• How changing residential design rules could make housing more affordable and accessible (Op-Ed; The Urbanist)
• Clyde Hill, a 3,000-resident enclave between Bellevue and Medina, is shutting the door to most non-SFH developments (The Urbanist)
• SDCI is raising permit fees in response to declining revenue as Seattle builders pivot away from high-value" projects (The Urbanist)
• Culver City became the first city in California to legalize single-stair" buildings (CalMatters). Seattle legalized single-stair buildings in 1977 (Mercatus Center).

Other Headlines:

• More than 25 years, five presidencies and four governors later, the plan to rebuild Penn Station is nowhere near completion" (The New York Times, gift link)
• An interview with Carter Lavin, author of If You Want to Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy" (Streetsblog USA)
• The Trump Admin has proposed massive cuts to transit funding despite massively misunderstanding which communities (hint: not the cities or blue states) get most of their transit funding from the Mass Transit Account (Streetsblog USA)
• Montreal's REM project could be the future of Canadian transit (Next Metro)
• Here's A Bunch of Cool Transit Projects That Just Started Service. Hope This Helps (Thoughts About Cities)

This is an Open Thread.