News Roundup: Another Helpful Debunking

• Forget gondolas, turn Silver Line Green.
• ST is hiring a Senior Transportation Planner.
• The mean musical chairs of rising rent and home prices.
• A bold, divisive plan to wean Californians from cars.
• For low-income renters, the affordable housing gap persists.
• Pollution impacts heighten the need for lids or freeway removal.
• Seattle underestimates by millions the cost to run its new streetcar line, Metro says.
• Olympia passes housing bills advancing CLT, homeless funding, and WSCC Lodging Tax.
• Innisfil, Ontario went with Uber instead of public transit" and says it saved $8 million per year. Keep in mind that Innisfil is "36,000 people spread over 270 square kilometres," so this result is what you'd expect.
• Public transit officials are "struggling to understand" Trump's proposed cuts.
• UW light-rail escalators re-started after 2-hour breakdown ($) Friday.
• Retail turmoil triggers new visions for shopping malls like Northgate ($) in Seattle.
• A closer look at plans to add safety improvements in Green Lake & Wallingford.
• How to survive the Cascadia Earthquake? Tips from seismologist Lucy Jones, "the Beyonci(C) of earthquakes" ($).
• Can London become a people-centric smart city?
• As city grapples with homelessness, leader tasked with response resigns.
• Here's how WMATA says it would spend $15.5 billion over a decade.
• Waze launches free carpool app in Washington state matching drivers, riders ($).
• British Columbia goes all in on rapid transit, funds high-speed rail study.
• Modernism in London's "Metro-Land."
• Paris rolls out "on demand bus stops" in bid to fight sexual harassment. Note that King County riders already have this.
• Why are the NYC subway's operating costs so high?
• Light rail frequency: promises and priorities. Another helpful debunking of the the stubborn myth that rails guarantee high-quality service.
• Construction costs and experience.
• How signal timers after a 1995 subway crash led to NYC's current transit crisis.
• Feds join suit against MTA alleging ADA violations.
• The myth of "forcing people out of their cars."
• Why outer suburbs in the East and Midwest have stopped booming.
• Portland wants help plotting bus-only lanes, bikeways and safer crossings in central city.
• Falling transit ridership poses an "emergency" for cities, experts fear.
• Don't delay the downtown bike network.
• City Council briefed on downtown circulator and Seattle streetcar.
• Why Sound Transit doesn't want you walking down a stalled escalator.

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