News Roundup: Happy 40th
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1G0VH)
- Puyallup parking garage negotiation not going well.
- Happy 40th Community Transit.
- Don't pry open the ticket vending machines.
- Open House for Lander St. Bridge is coming.
- Sounder maintenance base will be in Lakewood.
- Logical critique of Seattle Times "war on cars" rhetoric is a category error, but KUOW argued it out anyway.
- Washington's GOP platform declares commuter rail, light rail, and complete streets as distractions that "squander" dollars.
- East Link is driving Spring District real estate deals.
- Tacoma Trestle breaks ground.
- Kitsap Transit figuring out a use for some property.
- Capitol Hill Station head is "project manager of the year".
- Clallam Transit driver foils assault, hijacking.
- A map of storefront density.
- Getting new people into the community councils.
- Prospects for a commercial airport at Paine Field.
- Tim Eyman unveils aptly named "we love our cars" initiative. Spoiler alert: it's not good policy.
- Waterfront streetcars off to St. Louis.
- How to use street space efficiently.
- More housing will reduce cost.
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