News Roundup: Up Again

• SDOT finally discouraging construction sidewalk closures.
• WSDOT resuming work on landslide reduction along Cascades route.
• Nationwide vehicle miles traveled (VMT) going up again.
• Seattle Bike Blog crushes the Seattle Times no-vote ($) on Move Seattle.
• Eastbound I-90 to one lane this weekend; no special provision for transit.
• At the end of this interesting essay about Denmark is an explanation of why America doesn't have efficient public services, with transit as an example.
• Housing demolitions not an escalating problem.
• Sound Transit running a survey about instituting a low-income fare on ST Express and raising other fares by 25 cents to compensate.
• White House reports says NIMBY zoning regulations are a prime driver of economic inequality. The reduction in labor's share of income economy is entirely lost to housing wealth, not other forms of capital.
• Portland's affordable housing incentives a failure.
• Man ignores warnings, crosses in front of Amtrak train in Sodo ($), dies.
• People are going to say they don't understand what's in Move Seattle, but Mike Lindblom goes through it in detail ($).
• More apartments coming to the Spring District.
• Seattle residents spend more on transit, less on cars than peer cities.

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