News Roundup: Swallowing the Pill

• As Governor Inslee gets ready to throw bike/ped advocates under the bus, advocates fight back, including Seattle Bike Blog.
• The Montlake Pedestrian Bridge to UW Station is now open.
• Two King County Sheriff deputies may be fired after a Metro driver's personal body camera revealed they lied about a confrontation with the bus driver.
• What would the city do if the viaduct failed? "Roll out a massive transit plan", according to PSBJ.
• Get ready for major construction on Denny, as City Light's full-block substation construction gets underway next year.
• Highrises in Chinatown? A 14-story hotel/residential tower is planned.
• Occidental Park is getting the Westlake Park treatment, with concerts, food trucks, tables/chairs, and more.
• Apple is reportedly set to open an office in Union Square.
• The Transit App just keeps getting better.
• The ST Board is expected to select a preferred alternative for Federal Way Link. Don't get your hopes up for SR-99.
• In Jon Talton's "Five Takeaways from the Downtown Boom," perhaps the most important is that "mobility is the long-term key."
• More of Capitol Hill's Red Wall is down.
• After the failure of Pierce Transit's previous demonstration projects, with high costs and anemic ridership, they're back with a much more promising concept: a NE Tacoma-Downtown Tacoma express route.

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