Midweek Roundup: Save Curby
by Nathan Dickey from Seattle Transit Blog on (#6WGCT)
31 daysuntil theDowntown Redmond Link Extension opens on May 10. Sound Transit recently announced opening day details.
WSDOT opened the state's first e-bike rebate lottery today (Seattle Bike Blog). The state will award about 10,000 rebates at random. Households earning less than 80% of their county's median income can get $1,200 off a qualifying e-bike; higher-income applicants can get $300.
Local Transportation- Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka (D1) took an unprompted victory lap" on cancelled street safety improvements in North Delridge during a recent meeting (The Urbanist). Saka's focus on a hardened centerline prompted a hyperlocal campaign to Save Curby" (Westside Seattle Blog).
- On Saturday, transit advocates gathered along Bothell Way in Lake Forest Park to support completion of the Stride S3 BRT line (The Urbanist)
- Vigilante" stop signs got SDOT's attention in Capitol Hill (The Seattle Times, $)
- The Ballard Bridge will be closed for construction on multiple weekends this spring (SDOT Blog)
- A small handful of people have jogged or walked all 1,600 miles of Seattle streets (The Seattle Times, $)
- King County Metro's Water Taxi's summer sailing schedule starts Saturday, April 12 (Metro Matters)
- The NYMTA is rolling out a new map based on an old design (Bloomberg CityLab)
- Suburban sprawl forces people to drive, which worsens diets, harms air quality, and increases stress (Jalopnik)
- The Trump administration is explicitly targeting green transportation in blue states (Grist). One example: US DOT will look unfavorably" on road diets seeking federal grants (Streetsblog USA)
- What the Abundance" agenda might mean for transportation (Bloomberg CityLab)
- Op-Ed: A Seattle Times columnist got pretty much everything wrong" about new housing in South Park (The Urbanist)
- Angie Schmitt says we need real leadership to reverse the impacts of antisocial behavior discouraging walking, biking, and taking transit (Substack)
- 8 reasons to subsidize public transit (Planetizen)
- Five transportation policies that both parties could agree on to support public transit (Mass Transit Magazine)
- A neighborhood's walk score" might just be a white score" for gentrification (Streetsblog USA)
This is an Open Thread.