News Roundup: Mostly cows

• Single-family zoning is indefensible.
• Massive city report ($) goes into extraordinary detail about why.
• Council Candidate Shaun Scott reacts properly.
• SDOT delivered 4% (!) of its 2018 bike lane plan.
• Taking LimePods on a test drive.
• Mayor thinks scooters are too dangerous, auto carnage is just dandy.
• Private transit center near Expedia.
• Driver Nathan Vass tries being nice.
• Let's ban cars from the streetcar tracks.
• Kitsap buying more boats.
• Durkan hires consultant to represent Seattle to ST; the connection seems a bit cozy, but I'd most like to know the city's agenda.
• This Link security encounter sure sounds like profiling.
• Cynicism about capital projects is easy to understand ($): when the economy is bad, they can't deliver because revenues are down. When it's good, it's because costs have spiraled.
• Prospects for congestion pricing.
• A new use for bikeshare.
• "Talent wants transit."
• How we use the land area of the United States. Spoiler alert: it's mostly cows.

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