News Roundup: Substantive Differences

• Denver RTD cuts weekend frequency on two suburban lines to 30 minutes. Examples like this should, but probably won't, preclude the argument that rail services are uniquely immune to cuts, in the face of low ridership and fiscal constraints.
• car2go replaces ($) its Smart Cars with Benz sedans. They'll be harder to park on Capitol Hill, but you'll look like a baller when you step out.
• Times's David Gutman discusses ($) transpo issues in the 45th race. It's pretty well reported, unlike the Joe O'Sullivan hack job from last week.
• Brooklyn's Prospect Park goes car-free forever in the new year.
• The Urbanist surveys some of the best architecture Seattle has to offer.
• Skanska plans apartment tower on Fourth Avenue in Belltown. This project will "have a particular focus on the retail and ground-floor experience in this location;" I hope their architects look at the retail layout in Via6 down the street.
• LA Times ed board likes Metro's proposed mini-transit service.
• North Broadway extension, and the highly desirable bike infrastructure that would have come with it, appear to be dead.
• Submit comments in favor of ADUs.
• If you don't like paying ST's car tabs you can go buy ($) yourself a three-ton truck.
• Incoming Floridians ($).
• Schedule tweaks for the Bremerton fast ferry. Two mid-day runs begin Nov. 13th.
• San Antonio is a dangerous place to be a pedestrian.
• BC Transit hiring.
• A single, coordinated access system helped house ($) many of Houston's chronically homeless.
• SeaTac airport raises their TNC charge by $1 ($) per trip. Maybe this will let them design a passenger pickup area that's not a total s***show.
• Times op-ed proposes ($) a cross-sound car tunnel. That's obviously nuts, but the PPP model of funding infrastructure seems to work very well in Europe and Scandinavia, and I would love to know why it never seems to happen in the US.
• Five ways to tackle Melbourne's worsening peak-hour traffic.
• When the Mayor also drives for Uber.
• The TNT doesn't get in to great detail, but both candidates in the Tacoma mayoral race seem to want better transit, while exhibiting substantive differences in how to accomplish that.

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