News Roundup: Indispensable
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#2RCDE)
- Erica interviews Jessyn Farrell.
- Metro running a survey about I-90 trailheads.
- Vision Zero making progress, but is it enough?
- The first reviews are in for Pierce Transit Route 15 (Tacoma-Pt. Defiance)
- The indispensable Heidi Groover interrogates Bob Hasegawa's views on transit.
- Is it too early to allow private bikeshare in?
- One Center City group collecting input.
- Streetcar/Bike Safety lawsuit rumbles on ($).
- South Bellevue East Link construction meeting tonight.
- NYT says developers lovin' that transit.
- Swift Bus Lanes coming to 128th St SW.
- Sen. Steve O'Ban (R-University Place) makes the case ($) to take $4 billion in voter-approved taxes from Sound Transit, citing "substantial contingencies." No doubt, he will make the agency whole if revenues come in below projections.
- Washington House votes to slash Sound Transit 3 funding by $2 billion in a 64-33 vote, including all Democrats.
- Large Othello empty lot may become "equitable" development.
- Checking in on Seattle's monorail.
- Lots of Vision Zero data.
- Savage follows up his magnificent displacement essay with more on arbitrary city boundaries.
- Seattle Neighborhood Greenways hiring.
- ReachNow cars having problems on ferries.
- Willamette Week does some MAX fantasy mapping.
- Los Angeles considering total overhaul of their bus network.
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