News Roundup: Ridership King
by Frank Chiachiere from Seattle Transit Blog on (#3PWPK)
- PSRC survey on regional attitudes towards growth and transportation (PDF)
- Could "industrial areas" be put to better use?
- XKCD nails it on driving
- SnoCo pols want faster light rail to Everett (but without mentioning the airport-sized elephant in the room)
- Indoor market could come to King Street Station
- WS Ferries wants a battery-powered fleet ($)
- NYC's East Side Access now up to $11B
- Kirkland electeds give a thumbs up to new 85th St BRT
- New Amtrak maintenance facility under construction
- In the US, docked bike share is still the ridership king. Across the pond, signs of trouble in Paris.
- UPS looking at electric delivery trucks in Europe
- Uber is back on their flying taxi jam, while an internal investigation shows its autonomous cars were intentionally ignoring pedestrians
- Speaking of back on their jam"
- Bike lanes across the country stir up outrage
- Details on Sound Transit's OMF East
- McKinsey & Co says it will take $400M/yr to "solve" homelessness in Seattle
This is an open thread.
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