Midweek Roundup: dual disruption

Service Alerts:

• Sound Transit's Monthly Maintenance program comes to South King County this week, with Link 1 Line service between Angle Lake and Federal Way being replaced by buses from around 9pm to end of service the nights of May 25 to May 27.
• Dual disruption coming to Link this weekend, May 30-31: buses replace all trains between Capitol Hill and Stadium, and replace the 2 Line between South Bellevue and CID.

Local Headlines:

• Community Transit is retiring its last Seattle route, Route 424, on June 13 (CT News)
• Bellevue Poised to Stop Giving Away Curbside Parking for Free (The Urbanist)
• Seattle Times opinion piece on Vision Zero is dangerously misleading (Seattle Bike Blog)
• Hundreds of happy people ride with Mayor Wilson to open Bicycle Weekends (Seattle Bike Blog). Additional coverage by The Urbanist.
• Op-Ed: South King County Deserves the Light Rail Stations It Was Promised (The Urbanist)
• Dan Strauss Restarts Downtown Tunnel Debate on Eve of ST3 Plan Update (The Urbanist)
• West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis (The Urbanist)
• City Erased" exhibit at UW's Gould Hall highlights the buildings destroyed by I-5 (Seattle Now & Then)
• Seattle Advances Zoning Package Spurring Towers, Mass Timber, and Passive House (The Urbanist)
• Seattle Social Housing Developer Acquires First Building (The Urbanist)
• Seattle has the No. 1 big city school district. We should act like it (The Seattle Times, $; free via SPL)
• Seattle is giving out 100 free Seasonal Cafe permits for Seattle businesses (SDOT Blog)
• $8.4M in Federal funding to enhance transit service during the FIFA World Cup (PSRC)

Further Afield:

• Quick Note on Subway Operating Costs (Pedestrian Observations)
• First look inside TransLink's new four-door articulated trolley buses built in Europe (Daily Hive)
• First driverless metro for Madrid begins trial operations (Urban Transport Magazine)

Events:

• The Urbanist is hosting a King County Candidate Housing Forum on June 10.

This is an Open Thread.