News roundup: not nearly enough
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#5EHJZ)
- Apply for the Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board
- Seattle's car population plateaued ($) at about 460,000 2017-2019
- Paid parking rates adjust
- Metro hiring a new finance person, no public agency experience required
- More towers coming to the U-District; as always, it's not nearly enough
- Republican transportation proposal ($) has new taxes on bikes and transit to fund roads, but at least it focuses on maintenance instead of new highways
- Sound Transit asks the legislature to help out
- Metro's long range vision slips from 2040 to 2050, includes new service guidelines; more on this later
- SDOT considering loosening West Seattle Bridge restrictions
- Everett Herald ($), like the TNT, is more excited for light rail than the Seattle Times.
- Over 5,000 tickets issued there already
- New research on how market rate construction affects rents; here's the local version
- VMT Tax comes up again; just raise the gas tax!
- Rizal Bridge gets a PBL
- Spokane's Downtown Master Plan is ambitious
- Conditions for successful rail
This is an open thread.