News Roundup: Rise and Fall

• A bonanza of ST hearing coverage in the media: King5, Seattle Times ($), Tacoma News Tribune, KIRO, Q13 Fox, KOMO.
• ST head Rogoff op-ed in the Tribune.
• More on the history and revitalization of Spokane's East Sprague neighborhood.
• Old streetcar maps of Spokane.
• Boise downtown keeps growing, could get a 5,000 seat soccer and baseball stadium.
• It's not just Seattle, Wenachee has a housing crisis ($) and a group advocating to address it.
• Brier Dudley is shocked - shocked! ($) - to discover that advocacy has been going on at TCC, proposes new rules ($) to deal with this threat. The editorial board eats it up ($).
• By way of contrast, David Gutman has an excellent watchdog piece on the ridership and revenue projections of the Central City Connector ($).
• Dow, T4W endorse Durkan, SeaSub doesn't.
• Seattle recently revised its default speed limits and it's apparently causing confusion.
• Some in Nashville concerned that light rail will exacerbate gentrification.
• Sonoma-Marin commuters discover their new train.
• CM Juarez wants less heavy commercial, more walkable neighborhood commercial in Licton Springs.
• An architect and rancher from eastern Washington visits Seattle, takes an offhand swipe at Link.
• From the "expensive ways to move small numbers of people" department, Tacoma may study a foot ferry to Seattle.
• NBBJ to design 24-story tower with 229 units in the U District ($).
• Bellingham locomotive to get restored at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie.
• Boston officials imagine a "super card" that could get you on the T, a Hubway bike, a Zipcar and possibly even an Uber or Lyft ride. The goal of seamless any-mode transit payment is laudable, but inventing yet another city-specific card is not the path forward, given that contactless credit cards and mobile wallets are already in service.
• What happens when you turn off the traffic lights at a busy Amsterdam intersection?
• If you bike for exercise, consider biking to your ride.
• Lake Forest Park wants to make SR 522 and SR 104 safer, more accommodating to transit, and more walkable and bikeable. There open houses coming up.
• Pioneer Arthur Denny's Capitol Hill hotel.
• Metro Megazine surveys America's scattershot HSR efforts.
• I-405 toll lanes are revenue positive but get overcrowded in the peaks, so of course our legislature is not debating whether to raise the peak price cap, but whether to scrap tolling.
• The Stranger tells newcomers how to avoid driving your car in Seattle.

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