News Roundup: Nice Bridge

• All of Seattle's public high school students to get unlimited ORCA passes under new Durkan plan ($).
• Limebike's electric scooters could eventually come to Seattle, too.
• Northeast Seattle street project stirs cars-vs.-bikes debate ($).
• Thinking of ditching your car? Just do it already.
• Right-sizing parking: City Council weighs reform.
• Reclaiming street space in Capitol Hill.
• America's stunted national debate about infrastructure.
• New wind and wave criteria changes threshold for potential closures of the westbound I-90 floating bridge.
• Better Metro bus service for Admiral/Alki? To paraphrase a now-retired Metro planner, if everyone in West Seattle complaining about bus cuts actually rode the bus, their buses wouldn't have been cut.
• "Overcrowding" is not at the root of delays, subway chief says ($).
• Two barriers that keep pop culture from embracing public transportation.
• Treat outreach on transit projects like dating a future spouse.
• Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low.
• What the Spinetta Axe reveals about cost control.
• It's Microtransit Week over on Jarrett's blog: Is Microtransit an actual idea?; Does it matter if Microtransit is a new idea?; Is Microtransit a Sensible Transit Investment?
• Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality.
• SDOT plans summer "Broadway Corridor Streetcar Improvement Project." SDOT's Spot Improvement program now has a page; we wrote up most of this stuff already.
• Junction Neighborhood Organization pitches a part-tunnel plan.
• New renderings revealed for Portland's 970-foot twin towers.
• Tunnel aerodynamics: how pressure changes can cause significant damage.

This is an open thread. The bridge is this one.