News Roundup: skyrocketing
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#4R80Q)
Spencer Thomas/Flickr- Sound Transit needs some Pierce County residents for its Citizen Oversight Panel.
- LimePod shuts down. More on this later.
- Part of the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center parking lot will close Oct. 19th for Link construction.
- Congratulations to Operator of the Year Neal Safrin.
- Connections to North Sounder just got better in Edmonds.
- Foot ferry ridership way up.
- Council stymies move to endorse second Montlake bascule bridge for transit.
- In the biggest news out of DC this week, AOC has a pro-density housing bill.
- Mr. Rogoff testifies in Washington.
- Metro needs applicants to the paratransit advisory committee.
- Danny Westneat is tired of voting on light rail ($); there are indeed many, many veto points for any project of consequence, except highway expansion.
- Metro rethinking service to Golden Gardens.
- Zoning the Ave.
- A deep dive on development at Northgate.
- A map of the streetcar system" circa 1896.
- Goodbye to the Amtrak dining car.
- Transit costs in New York are skyrocketing - and it's not clear why.
This is an open thread.