News roundup: coming for the produce markets

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• The engineer that put tracks on the I-90 bridge. It's not necessarily great that Sound Transit had to commission groundbreaking engineering work, but the people involved should be proud of their achievement.
• Erica Barnett interprets the Seattle Council primary results.
• What can Sound Transit do to cut down on 9 Link crashes per year?
• Limepods a vector for crime?
• Seattle's e-scooter pilot mysteriously slow to arrive.
• There is no problem with West Seattle buses ($) that can't be solved immediately with adequate commitment to bus lanes.
• 8th Avenue protected bike lane opens.
• New water taxi terminal opens.
• Metro is just going to try different stuff to fix the West Seattle mess.
• Mayor Durkan, rhetorically, is on the side of the bus lane vigilantes.
• I've praised the virtues of elevated trains before, but Bill Savage did it better.
• Sumner wants a pedestrian bridge ($) for Sounder access.
• First Sound Transit came for the burger stands, and I said nothing. Now they're coming for the produce markets - or at least some of the market's parking.
• MVET lawsuit rolls on.
• Washington has the intention of building an intercity transit network, though it's skeletal.
• Seattle considers amending its Comprehensive Plan.
• Kevin Desmond gets a nice pay bump in Vancouver. Portland, too.
• Vandals may have brought down sea-to-sky gondola.
• Rail projects are expensive but Uber's losses are bigger.

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