News Roundup: Beta Testing

• If you missed the Friday night news dump, it was a doozy.
• Lizz Giordano says they're Upzoning downtown Everett ($).
• Bus lane coming to Columbia Street.
• Open Houses for the Link extension to Tacoma begin next week.
• RFP for Northgate TOD reissued; delay turns out to have been mostly a waste of time.
• Another for Puyallup Station parking on Tuesday.
• UW experimenting with a bike valet at the Link station.
• Getting to the Washington State Fair via transit.
• Mercer Island looking to actually develop something ($) next to its station.
• Portland is testing pre-fab bus islands.
• Sound Transit is beta-testing a new website.
• Vancouver's Broadway Subway approved.
• Security theater ($) may be coming to American transit systems.

This is an open thread.