News Roundup: The Obvious

• Route 269 to Sammamish to run all day beginning next year.
• Bellevue Tunnel work to begin this month.
• What to do around Tukwila/International Blvd Station.
• Capitol Hill public meeting about new development complains about parking - that there's too much of it.
• ST's loans from USDOT get good credit ratings from Fitch. ST celebrates by selling more bonds.
• SDOT releases its scorecard for Prop 1 (the 2014 measure for more bus service).
• Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board accepting applications.
• C-Tran wins lawsuit attacking funding for its Vine BRT.
• Hearing examiner rules in favor of exclusionary zoning, NIMBYs, pauses desperately needed backyard cottages.
• The Seattle Times (!) produces a tourist guide focused on using light rail ($).
• SDOT hiring a leader for its transportation equity programs.
• Tim Burgess, with a mixed record but a strong understanding of parking and housing supply, not running again.
• Uber expands further into Eastern Washington.
• Lots of housing planned for Northgate.
• Stakeholders cooling to Broadway Streetcar extension, future progress in doubt.
• Peter Rogoff states the obvious, that HOV-3 lanes would help buses move faster. WSDOT reaction is lukewarm.

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