News Roundup: Breaking Its Promises
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1BA0M)
- City of Seattle quickly breaking its promises to the bike community before the Move Seattle vote.
- Forget about whether it's "affordable" or not - we're just not building enough housing, period.
- Apple Maps finally adds transit directions in Seattle.
- A puff piece on Metro drivers ($) - and one in particular.
- Bus etiquette tips ($).
- Snohomish County leaders float an alternative that serves Paine Field while avoiding SR99 entirely, possibly saving a few hundred million dollars and a few years.
- Debora Juarez offers a convincing, technically literate case ($) for 130th Street Station.
- Tim Eyman rolls out another initiative to kneecap ST3 funding.
- Everett Herald floats the idea of a BRT connection to Paine Field to connect to Link along I-5.
- Kemper Freeman has a transportation plan too.
- C-TRAN debunks Washington Policy Center attack on their cost structure.
- MAX track maintenance will severely disrupt service for two weeks in May.
This is an open thread.