News roundup: June highlights

Some highlights from June that we never mentioned here:

• As you probably noticed, Link frequency is back to its long-term level, though headways through the Rainier Valley may never return to 6 minutes
• Lizz asks if transit ridership will come back
• Pierce gets a state grant for on-demand service to the tideflats and Port of Tacoma
• Whatcom and Skagit Transit are back to normal
• Intercity Transit, too
• So much stuff coming to Northgate
• Microtransit coming to Lynnwood ($)
• Tacoma Link fares coming in 2022
• Everett Transit inching toward merger ($) with Community Transit
• Metro Operator of the Year Mary Hopson
• Maintenance Employee of the Year Bart Hedlund
• Ferry fares going up Oct. 1 ($)
• Seattle starts using TBD to just give out ORCA cards
• Oil train derailment was sabotage?

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