News Roundup: Victory Lap

• Port of Seattle will enclose the Link/airport walkway soon within 3 weeks, eyeing plans to add a moving walkway.
• Pronto will die in April 2017. There will be no bikeshare in Seattle for at least a few months.
• But Cascade Bicycle Club is taking a victory lap for the overall bike component of the budget.
• Tacoma to "increase density by allowing smaller multifamily projects and townhouses in some new areas" and "allowing detached accessory dwelling units." Make a note, Seattle.
• Sounder riders not welcome at Freighthouse Square.
• 279 new units in the Spring District.
• Link quarterly ridership keeps climbing, and now exceeds regionwide ST Express ridership despite covering a fraction of that region.
• ST's credit rating upgraded.
• Shooting on Route 169.
• Sightline goes deep on Inclusionary Zoning.
• ST awards $152m contract for Roosevelt Station; construction starts early next year.
• West Seattle Junction bus shelter saga continues.
• Meet the YIMBYs.
• Happy 7th Birthday, Swift.
• How $29m in housing funds got to yes.
• King County rezoning some rural parcels.
• With the fast ferry measure now law, Kitsap Transit gears up.
• Sammamish Mayor complains about Metro cuts, but then Sammamish voted against the measure that would have maintained suburban bus hours.
• The only problem with this planned Capitol Hill building is it's too small.
• We make it very hard to go carless, mainly due to land use decisions.
• Elaine Chao will be the next US Secretary of Transportation.
• Mass transit is back on TV.
• Volvo offering the world's largest bus.

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