News Roundup: Big Plans
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#468Y3)
- Joe Fitzgibbon (D-West Seattle) will try again to make automated bus lane enforcement legal ($).
- 20% more bike racks in 2019!
- It's time for minimum density standards.
- NYT says West Coast cities are catching up ($) on transit. But we are long way from getting to their transit-friendly land-use legacy.
- DSA has big plans for 3rd Avenue.
- I disagree with calling most ferries "transit" ($), but we are spending almost as much money on transit as we should be.
- If Mercer Island is going to put a big building on top of their commuter parking, it's a good project.
- New ST Board Chair John Marchione leaving public service entirely at the end of the year.
- $25 fee ($) to take Jump bikes outside their zone.
- Legislature might still mess around with Sound Transit ($).
- This INRIX list of Seattle Squeeze mitigations ($) is a mix of good and bad ideas.
- SDOT runner-up will run the Squeeze response.
- First East Link segment almost complete.
- 2018 was the year of the YIMBY.
- The case for free transit, with a payroll tax to make up the difference. Kshama Sawant wants to try it (without the tax) during the Seattle Squeeze.
- Eyman back at it again.
- City Hall Plaza debacle ($) drags on.
- Puyallup might develop some downtown parking lots ($).
- Chatting with TriMet's GM.
- An interview with Christof Spieler.