News Roundup: 68 Cents
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1TQJQ)
- Hefty Snohomish County Ballot will cost 68 cents to mail; don't screw up your chance to vote for ST3.
- An update on Seattle 2035.
- PSRC recommends $700m of federal grants in a $4.5 billion regional transportation plan.
- Checking in on ST2's Tacoma Link expansion.
- Affordable housing on the agenda in Bellevue.
- Seattle CM Lorena Gonzalez endorses ST3.
- Issaquah imposes a six-month moratorium on center city development.
- I don't see how they are "cabin-like" buildings, but 384 units are much appreciated.
- Seattle's carbon footprint declining.
- Seattle PLUS committee approves rezone of a 23rd & Union parcel from 40"^2 to 65"^2.
- SDOT pushing back against HALA's "Parking Benefit Districts" where neighborhoods keep parking revenue. It's true that it's not equitable, but it is far better than caving to NIMBYs and keeping parking requirements.
- Local charter bus companies fined for safety violations.
- More protected bike lanes coming soon.
- Up in YVR, Kevin Desmond builds a plan to boost train and bus capacity.
- FTA threatens to pull funding from Honolulu's rail line.
- Maryland starting an EIS about Baltimore-Washington maglev.
- A National Transit Map.
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