News Roundup: Straight outta 2000
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#2DTH2)
- Sen. Dino Rossi sponsoring anti-Sound Transit, anti-tolling bills straight out of 2000.
- Pierce Transit starting a bus from downtown to Pt. Defiance this June.
- Burke-Gilman missing link ($) lurching toward a conclusion.
- Seattle Council unanimously approves U-District upzone ($) after O'Brien, Sawant, and Herbold fail to water it down.
- Urban planning workshops over the next week for TIBS and the CD.
- Mountlake Terrace Council upset with ST about art projects, parking, and an optional infill station.
- Olympia will clear up the Sound Transit boundary property tax issue.
- 2016 ST system ridership up 23% from 2015.
- More Sounder parking coming to Auburn.
- Kitsap Transit hashes out fast ferry subsidies and reservations.
- The maintenance ST does on New Year's Eve that requires a 1 AM shutdown.
- TriMet GM calls for Southwest Corridor light rail, and three highway projects.
- TriMet also restructuring some bus service.
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