News Roundup: Fail Again

• If you're new-ish to Seattle, The Economist's digest of the state of housing in Seattle ($) is about as concise and accurate as you can get.
• But Uber and Lyft are still here - and they're adding to total miles driven ($).
• UW Station escalators fail again ($), not quite as catastrophically as last time.
• Paine Field airport taking shape.
• 3rd Avenue improvements will start Monday.
• Trump not paying out $1.4 billion appropriated for transit.
• Madison BRT now in trouble, thanks to Trump administration foot-dragging and problems procuring the right buses. Move Seattle may not build many bus lanes, but its output of bad news is robust.
• Why new buildings all look the same. This piece misses design review, which is a gate easiest to pass through by doing what worked before, and appeals to neighborhood "character," which is explicitly an argument for buildings to look the same.
• But really, don't sweat it, because "dumb boxes" are great if you care about anything beyond aesthetics.
• 23rd Ave road diet marches on.
• ST's Citizen Oversight Panel needs another volunteer.
• Trade war now threatening everything good happening in Seattle.
• Stop me if you've heard this one before: Pierce Transit's Route 1 BRT faces opposition from businesses that don't want to lose parking.
• Council passes an ordinance to "save the Showbox," although there are signs the legislation is badly flawed.
• If SBB is cool with Link destroying the Sodo trail, so am I.
• A refresh ($) in the Sodo mural corridor.
• Chris Karnes reports the Point Defiance Bypass will reopen next spring.
• A rezone in Greenwood.
• Intercity Transit will ask voters for another 0.4% of sales tax this November to fund more service.
• Portland is the new parking policy champion.
• Everett may reform its parking as well.
• Uber finds E-bikes reduce driving.

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