News Roundup: Better Than Ever

• Thank goodness: the Denny Way bus lane is finally here. There's more to do.
• Mayor Durkan also stalling improvements to the First Hill Streetcar.
• Capitol Hill is better than ever.
• Photographic evidence at least some Waterfront Shuttle trips are well-used.
• SBB's bikeshare guide is up-to-date now.
• This David Gutman article ($) is a little quick to accept Mayor Durkan's attempt to blame every problem in Move Seattle on the previous administration.
• Potential conflicts of interest abound in the contract to evaluate SDOT and the CCC.
• WSDOT veteran is the latest interim SDOT director ($). She seems to be strong on project management, which would be nice.
• SDOT promises its employees that it will do better.
• Construction workers on strike, projects frozen.
• Things have taken a turn the worse lately, but we have a lot to be grateful for, as only a Portlander can point out.
• Your kid's ORCA card may be in the mail.
• Little buildings coming to Capitol Hill, big ones to First Hill. That's backwards.
• Most you probably understand the bus route numbering system, but here's a primer ($).
• 2,000 hours on a bus is an education of its own ($).

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