News Roundup: Selling Out

• Biking to UW Station is" popular.
• Stats about Capitol Hill Station.
• U-Link creates overjoyed commuters ($).
• As revenues improve, ST sends more money to Federal Way Link preparations.
• Mayor Murray wants to electrify Seattle's cars.
• Housing construction depressing rents.
• Judkins Park Station breaks ground next year.
• Community Transit speaks up for transit users everywhere, argues against changes to I-405 tolling.
• The Stranger's light rail issue is quite charming. Its sudden discovery of the Rainier Valley, though several staffers have lived there for years, is amusing. But I love it!
• Bellevue getting very aggressive about safe biking.
• Do Westlake transit improvements go far enough?
• TriMet's BRT plan turns out to be slower than the regular bus, and to their credit they're changing course and scrapping it.
• Spokane's STA thinking about how to move forward after a narrow defeat on the ballot.
• Sound Transit is hiring fare enforcers.
• Seattle spending $20m to upgrade Pike/Pine downtown.
• Federal Way is in the bracket for most egregious sea of surface parking.
• Protests about U-Pass cost increases.
• Puyallup Eagles mull selling out to Sound Transit for a parking garage.
• Pierce Transit trying to get a developer for dense housing in the Dome District.
• Roosevelt Avenue street work about to start.
• Angle Lake Station may get a new hotel.
• 247 units planned for 10th & Jackson.
• Ben Franklin Transit still looking for General Manager.
• Second Avenue cycle track coming next year to Denny Way.
• Mason Transit GM done in by sexual harassment.

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