News Roundup: The Next Level
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#29FJ4)
- USDOT designates UW as a "Beyond Traffic Innovation Center."
- Tacoma to Dupont rail testing coming soon.
- Why Northgate Link isn't all that close to being done.
- KING5 asks about Link's constantly broken escalators.
- We're used to mudslides canceling North Sounder - but now high tides are stopping it too ($). Sounds ominous!
- Eyman to go after Sound Transit again.
- Sounder Stations could become Amazon delivery hubs.
- Study shows heavy traffic makes your bus stop wait feel longer.
- Bellevue gets its own TBM.
- Seattle vanpool parking rates increasing substantially.
- Capitol Hill/Central District reaction to HALA is mixed.
- USDOT nominee Elaine Chao's answer on Sound Transit is noncommittal.
- Portland Transit in a snowstorm.
- Tacoma and Lynnwood to get outside help with their TOD planning.
- ReachNow claims 40,000 members nationwide.
- While Sound Transit struggles with basic arrival time information, TriMet takes it to the next level.
- Possible amendments to the U-District Rezone.
- Seattle Bike Blog willing to go to the mat for the Broadway Streetcar extension, if no one else is.
- Oregon planning its own big transportation package, but they (of course) will have state mass transit funding in theirs.
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