News Roundup: Scattered
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#M20N)
- Kiwanis Club volunteers no longer providing shuttles to Puyallup Fair; alternatives remain.
- A mathematically rigorous example of how adding a road can increase congestion and travel times.
- Metro exploring "alternative services" for Vashon Island, looking for residents to participate.
- Yesler Terrace construction moving along ($), will increase the number of units by almost nine times.
- Microsoft considering renovations to make their campus more "urban."
- KING5 mourns the loss of Forward Thrust.
- SLU development "just getting started."
- Stephen Fesler is right: Vancouver is awesome.
- Uber, Lyft likely to get permission to pick up passengers at Seatac.
- All that construction also creating lots of working-class jobs ($).
- New Mercer Island transportation citizen group forming, "Vision Mercer Island," intentions unclear.
- Portland's Orange Line opens Sept. 12th.
- WSDOT's toll program administration has been" scattered ($).
- Washington's text-and-drive law is toothless ($).
This is an open thread.