News roundup: safety
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#5WE66)
- Avalon residents ask if a station there is really needed (!)
- Missing middle housing bill is dead, but ADU reform is not
- Some advice for YIMBYs on how to win more battles
- Bad behavior on buses and trains ($) is out of control, Metro seeking answers ($)
- New Sound Transit guidelines will avoid pedestrian crossings
- Tacoma Link needs $30m more (from $252m recently, $217m a year ago)
- State Supreme Court hearing arguments ($) that fare inspection is unconstitutional
- Just how fair is it that Metro gets so much Federal money?
- The supply chain comes for Metro's maintenance ops ($)
- Feds sending $37m for Swift Orange
- If residents don't want Mt Baker to be desolate," the key is lots and lots of commerce
- King County helmet law is gone; city laws remain
- Relatedly, two new safety-oriented positions are open: 1, 2
- How to restructure for Link in Tacoma
- Apple Cup train failure now has a cause ($)
- Driver shortage reaches ST Express
- South Sounder kills pedestrian
- New Amtrak locomotives
- A guide for transit to trails ($)
- Love on the bus
This is an open thread.