News Roundup: Plateauing
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#57NDG)
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- Sound Transit's 6-year Draft Transit Development Plan is out. Not much interesting in it, although yearly ridership charts show ridership was plateauing across all modes in 2019. There's a public hearing on it Thursday.
- Clallam Transit also has a 6-year plan.
- Incredibly, the Point Defiance Bypass is still not operational ($).
- King County promises 50% cut in emissions by 2030.
- Rep. Jayapal pretty confident" Feds will fund part of West Seattle Bridge replacement.
- More Bellevue Tunnel pics.
- There's a survey on Route 44 Improvements.
- The passenger ferry study Dan wrote up in June continues. 45 potential routes are down to 8: check out the 80 minute webinar, or a much shorter writeup.
- Sound Transit's Federal Way art program vandalized. It might be racially motivated.
- Real-time app transee" now has estimated bus load factors.
- A list of outdoor dining streets.
- Too many cars, not enough parking at Mt. Rainier National Park. If only there were a technology to move more people with less road space...
This is an open thread.