News Roundup: Be Excellent
by Frank Chiachiere from Seattle Transit Blog on (#3PDH7)
- Excellent deep dive ($) on Seattle's exclusionary zoning and its impact on house prices
- Relatedly, the Talaris development in Laurelhurst could have a lot more housing
- Job opening at the City of Kirkland: Transportation Strategic Advisor
- Sound Transit board adopts equitable TOD policy
- Community Transit adding even more double deckers
- Motivate, operator of Seattle's defunct Pronto bikeshare (as well as successful systems in NYC, Chicago and elsewhere), is looking for a buyer ($) amid dockless competition
- SDOT will have a better idea of what it can deliver with Move Seattle Levy "in a month or two"
- Sound Transit will prioritize affordable housing when disposing of surplus land
- Speaking of which, the site of the cancelled (
) First Hill station from ST1 will become 313 units of affordable housing - Kicking off I-405 BRT planning, which will be "like rail on rubber tires"
- Knute Berger makes the case for the Monorail to Key Arena
- Meanwhile, the Seattle Times ed board ($) is concerned about traffic getting to Key events but stops short of proposing any solutions
- Bike share is more popular in nice weather
- Forward Thrust at 50
- Chicago mulls light rail, NYC plans to improve its buses, Vancouver Skytrain costs are going up, and a transit referendum tanks in Nashville
- You will be able to pay to reserve a parking space at some ST lots
- Be excellent ($) to each other
This is an open thread
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