News Roundup: Official
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1SCCY)
- The Sound Transit 3 campaign now has their own official online tax calculator.
- Fauntleroy ferry operations not going well.
- Pushing for a narrower waterfront highway, but general-purpose lanes are "non-negotiable."
- I wish I could be this optimistic that we'd be the first to see self-driving cars.
- Community Transit repainting Lynnwood Transit Center; some service revisions.
- SDOT selling discount ORCA to low-income youth.
- Link reaches 80,000 boardings on a particular day.
- Erica's tweetstorm about testimony against backyard cottages is maddening.
- Jarrett Walker heistates to call Portland's newest bus project BRT, but it sounds a lot like RapidRide.
- Developer wins in lawsuit against anti-density regulations.
- Pronto may go all-electric ($).
- Uber is not a replacement for transit.
- Absher Construction will build Northgate Station.
- Queen Anne Community Council comes out against density, goes full NIMBY.
- 300 new units coming next to CHS.
- A roundup of driverless buses.
- California poised to lead the world on climate action.
- Bertha has completed 4,117 feet out of 9,270; there's a new guy in charge.
- The carnage on our roads spirals upwards.
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