News Roundup: How to Fix Gentrification
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#ZTP7)
- How to fix gentrification: either help poor people or preserve existing buildings, but you can't do both.
- I-405 carpoolers roughly evenly split between 2 passengers and 3.
- People keep wringing their hands over the difficulties with the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax when we could just raise the gas tax with no technical difficulties at all.
- If John Fox wants to prevent all displacement ($) he should be spending more time campaigning to defund the schools and let violent crime go unpunished. Otherwise, he's going to have to find a way to accommodate the rich, the middle class, and the poor in a growing city.
- Seattle subsidized New Year's Lyft rides in places where DUIs are frequent.
- Aurora construction will wreck everything beginning Jan. 18th, including the bus lanes. It'd be helpful for everyone for you to take transit, but then WSDOT isn't lifting a finger to preserve transit priority. So why bother?
- Local train-pedestrian deaths a new record in 2015.
- Kirkland holding a meeting on ST3 on January 11th, 6 to 9pm.
- With Link coming to its door, Northgate Mall doubles down on parking.
- 125 more units proposed for Fauntleroy Way.
- WSDOT screws up tolling yet again.
- Clark County Council may not share STB's values.
- WSF orders a 144-car ferry.
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