News Roundup: So You Don’t Have To

• RapidRide H (Delridge) now at 10% design, slipping from 2020 to 2021.
• Jon Talton argues for the CCC ($) in the Times.
• 9th Avenue gets red paint.
• Seattle has so. much. parking. ($)
• Ofo backing out of most U.S. cities. I hope Seattle survives the cut, but SDOT jacking up fees seems ill-timed.
• A timetable for (tiny) improvements to Third Avenue.
• Link weekday boardings exceed 80,000 a day for a month, for the first time.
• Seattle Council backs a firm timetable for completing the downtown bike network, but the resolution is non-binding.
• I greatly enjoyed this Times review ($) of the three bikeshare companies, and samples of bike reliability.
• 209,000 bikeshare trips in May, regulations changing.
• Trump Administration doing what it can to slow down transit funding distribution.
• David Gutman reads the bikeshare user agreements ($) so you don't have to.
• Kirkland wants to jump on the bikeshare bandwagon.
• Mayor Durkan won't meet with broad pro-streetcar coalition; not a good sign.
• DSTT Escalators still failing massively.
• Policies that lead to bus drivers leaving early.
• Pierce Transit formally approves its BRT line, opening in 2022.
• NTSB Hearing on the Amtrak crash ($) doesn't cover Amtrak in glory.
• After voters reject a local tax package, British Columbia and the Canadian government fund a $7 billion transit plan in Vancouver.
• Spokane's highway boondoggle.
• Portland has a new plan to speed up its buses.
• Dutch cities in a race to build giant underground parking garages ($) - for bikes.

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