News Roundup: Bikes, Housing, High-Speed Rail

• Allowing Seattle City Light to sell surplus land for affordable housing"
• "let's use it to build mass timber social housing instead
• Josh Feit wants us to look past the Showbox: more housing, less nostalgia
• A ban on apartments hurts public education
• Nicole Grant in the Seattle Times: the city should add more ADUs
• Exploring Seattle by light rail
• A new approach to fare enforcement at Metro
• King County Council may direct more hotel/motel taxes to affordable housing instead of Safeco Field
• Hey, as long as we can still take the Water Taxi to see Pearl Jam
• A safer 65th St NE starts construction in August
• Bellevue gets a protected bike lane and 1200 e-bikes
• An excellent speech from Teresa Mosqueda on bike equity
• Local construction costs going up, thanks to tariffs
• Portland DOT needs to watch its social media game
• Jason Rantz visits Europe, praises their transit system, and concludes that Seattle needs to prioritize" cars
• The NY Times digs in to California high-speed rail. The LA Times has a data visualization of the train making the SF-LA trip in the required 2h40.
• Speaking of HSR, China's first line opened 10 years ago. Today they have 25,000km of high-speed track.
• What it's like to be a teenager with a self-driving car

This is an open thread

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