News Roundup: Line-by-Line
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#2C316)
- 5 million ORCA LIFT trips last year.
- ST's train etiquette campaign.
- Seattle seeking data on Uber and Lyft's impact on traffic.
- Bike stakeholders not happy with One Center City planning.
- SDOT's trucks designed to be safe for bikes.
- Boise's transit not adequate.
- Update on ST projects in Renton.
- KIRO talks driverless trains. The concern about interoperable trains make sense, but many systems that roll out driverless trains do so line-by-line.
- Link Transit (Wenatchee) developing a new operational concept.
- Is the U-District upzone plan worse than doing nothing? Perhaps not.
- SDOT looking to increase parking availability in Columbia City.
- A review of I-405 tolling ($).
- Rob Johnson is, indeed, on the right side of history.
- Tacoma "a top-10 market nationwide for multifamily investment."
- Sound Transit hiring a transit planner. Jarrett Walker is hiring too.
- Governors send Trump Administration an infrastructure wishlist, and Link is all over it.
- More gates coming to SeaTac.
- Studying HSR to Vancouver.
- Broadway Streetcar extension fizzling.
- Downtown business and bus riders.
- Letter asserts abuse of the Eastgate Park-and-Ride by adjacent office workers.
- Republican bills assaulting the Growth Management Act.
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