News Roundup: So Much Oxygen

• Emergency plan spends modestly ($) on signals, Subway's biggest woe.
• PBOT: Traffic deaths up, despite Vision Zero efforts.
• Minorities are the demographic engine of millennial urban growth.
• Seattle's voters and leaders know the value in keeping commuters out of cars.
• Beyond the MetroCard: Faster buses, better access to commuter rail, fairer fares.
• What would the ultimate child-friendly city look like?
• Clarified e-assist bicycle rules head to the Governor's desk.
• As Seattle transit ridership skyrockets, Metro works to keep up with demand.
• Minneapolis: Judge rules in favor of Southwest LRT.
• The movement to destroy Warsaw's tallest building.
• Urbanism and standards of respectability.
• The Freedom Railway: a 1,860km journey across Africa.
• Frequent transit nodes and what they mean for urban village expansions.
• Affordable housing ($) in Seattle is not the enemy.
• For waterfront revamp, Seattle weighs fees ($) for downtown property owners.
• "We're listening, Department of Transportation says on the future of driverless cars.
• Digging into the foundation ($) of the housing cost crisis.
• New Hudson tunnels are canceled. Again.
• Metro opened a gift shop. The Internet mocked it. But the true believers came ($).
• Rome's subway project keeps digging up archaeological marvels ($).
• Montreal's iconic subway cars becoming creative spaces.
• As subway crisis takes up "so much oxygen," ($) the buses drag along.
• The ticking time bomb for suburban retail.
• Scientists just showed ($) what building a new suburb does to the atmosphere.
• 35th Ave NE: A project at risk.
• Pierce Transit solicits qualifications for foot-ferry service feasibility study. It boggles my mind that Tacoma and Pierce Transit are considering this when their fixed-route bus service is pathetic and their future connection to the Link spine is threatened by state and federal cuts.
• City council gets first look at draft amendments to parking reform legislation.
• Wenatchee-area buses could start earlier, run later under Link Transit's route proposals ($).
• Minneapolis leaders consider allowing fourplexes citywide to relieve housing shortage.
• Vancouver, WA parking efficiency study could lead to changes.
• A Japanese photographer traces how cities are built and destroyed.
• FTA finds tracks in "black condition" but WMATA routinely reclassifies them.
• We may look back on today's traffic as "light and dreamy" if we don't get "Urbanism Next" right.

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