News Roundup: Parking Lots Disappearing

• "Red paint" - SDOT collecting feedback on Broadway transit lane proposal.
• PLUZ committee moves parking reform. Almost all the debilitating Herbold amendments were defeated.
• This small Wallingford apartment building is fine-grained urbanism at its finest.
• Paris to offer subsidies to those who buy bikes, give up cars.
• New federal budget would likely keep money flowing ($) to Lynnwood light rail.
• Seattle's plan to allow more homes near transit and shops doesn't go far enough.
• Will Boston turn around its ailing bus system?
• Paris mayor floats free transit for all.
• Twin Transit's purchase of electric bus stalled by WSDOT testing, "Buy America" Standards.
• SEPTA lost millions of bus trips last year. Proposed solutions are in the works.
• SDOT evaluates options to craft Magnolia Bridge alternative.
• Anti-bike lane group tweets that single moms don't bike. It backfires spectacularly.
• SDOT collecting more traffic data for Lake Washington Loop Greenway.
• Chicago: Parking lots disappearing in ride-sharing era as downtown construction booms.
• How Boise could keep at least some Downtown housing affordable. Here's an idea: an attractive, fast, reliable transit system that can extend outside of the downtown.
• Not one, not two, but three ($) takes on the MTA's off-peak service.
• Portland: Two new plans to watch.
• Google Pay now handles transit tickets.
• Plan to dramatically increase development ($) would transform some L.A. neighborhoods. Where's Washington's Scott Weiner?
• Thirteen years after painful cut, First Hill still wants a light rail station.
• Transportation projects in Spokane area poised to benefit from federal spending bill.
• Documenting the dynamic black community ($) of 1940s Seattle.
• Slower speed is a service cut.
• You want congestion pricing? Be specific.
• Transportation projects in Spokane area poised to benefit from federal spending bill.
• Third Ryde Tube: Transfer troublesome.
• Georgia governor throws $100M behind metro Atlanta transit initiatives. "Is this really happening in Georgia?"
• As Puget Sound region grows, (free) park and rides fill up.
• Did Fort Collins grow too big too fast?
• NYC: More on weekend service changes and redundancy.
• Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal.
• Transit App: Now supporting accessibility information.
• Seattle's Highway 99 tunnel could open to traffic ($) in October.
• Washington State Ferries to look harder at diesel to electric conversion. The shorter ferry routes (Lummi, Guemes, Cathlamet, Keller, Inchelium) also seem worth examining.
• Sound Transit settlement will subsidize ($) Uber and Lyft rides to Mercer Island transit center.
• Let's not screw up Northgate, too: The redevelopment of Seattle's oldest mall us a chance to get things right.
• Traffic, traffic everywhere - including rural Pierce County. Shocker: it turns out those big new houses are cheap for a reason.
• Everything is awesome! Southwest LRT officials make the case that the project isn't the smoldering tire fire so many assume.

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