News Roundup: Causation, not Correlation

• Data from Vancouver suggests the path to stable housing prices lies with the type of housing where supply can expand (condos), not fixed (single family).
• Sound Transit will store buses from Pierce County in a Sodo lot during the day, save $500,000 annually.
• Mukilteo rail platform will open in "weeks", after many delays.
• Shoreline Lynnwood Link meeting on January 27th.
• Mercer Island issuing parking permits at a grocery store in the town center, for residents only, for a $10 fee.
• You can now check I-405 tolls online.
• Given a likely large ST3 package, Kirkland City Council warming to light rail on the CKC. Pitchforks are still out.
• New owner of Victoria Clipper ($) to open a route between Victoria and Vancouver.
• Driver who murdered cyclist while drunk gets 6.5 years in prison ($).
• More parking = more traffic, and a study shows it's causation, not just correlation.
• The deep bore tunnel project can't catch a break; Inslee halts work.
• Frye museum to turn parking lot into a residential tower.
• We didn't learn a ton from the Constantine/Rogoff U-Link press conference, but you can watch it in its entirety.

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