Midweek Roundup: “Deciding To See”

Redmond Link Extension:

• Coverage of the Downtown Redmond Link Extension opening by The Seattle Times ($) and The Urbanist.
• How Redmond's 1993 Downtown Plan kicked off its urban renaissance, and how it shows no signs of slowing while a new neighborhood is sprouting up around the Marymoor Village Station (The Urbanist)
• What's next for transit on the Eastside? (The Seattle Times, $)

Local Transportation:

• Angle Lake station will close nightly at 10pm from MarchMay 19 for up to four weeks to test the Federal Way extension connection. There will be no replacement bus; passengers should transfer to RapidRide A to reach Angle Lake station. The P&R will remain open.
• Some bus stops for routes 31, 32, 40 and 62 in Fremont are temporarily moving for water main upgrades and other utility improvements (Metro Matters)
• The Kitsap Fast Ferries will no longer accept transfers or PugetPasses starting October 1, to align its fare transfer policy with that of Washington State Ferries" (KT Headways)
• A federal judge has (temporarily) blocked the Trump administration from imposing additional requirements on already-awarded grants in Seattle and other cities (The Associated Press). Sound Transit joined this lawsuit last week (The Seattle Times, $)
• SDOT is strategically placing trees in street medians to block unsafe driving behavior (The Seattle Times, $)
• Nathan Vass, author of The Lines That Make Us, is coming out with a new book, Deciding to See: The View from Nathan's Bus (The Seattle Times, $). Website here.
• WSDOT got two bids to build three new hybrid diesel-electric ferries: Whidbey-based NBBB estimated $1 billion for all three boats; Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group estimates $714.5M for the same (The Seattle Times, $). WSDOT is evaluating.

Other Transportation:

• The new CEO of the California High Speed Rail project is looking to private fundraising to fill the gap of Federal funding cuts (The Urban Condition)
• DC Metro's next service expansion is all about more bus service (The Washington Post, $)
• New analysis shows service in the Northeast Corridor could be massively improved at relatively low cost (Transit Costs Project). The Cascades corridor should be paying attention.
• All the changes wrought by NYC's congestion pricing: less traffic, faster buses, increased transit ridership, and more (The New York Times). A cross-section of how Manhattan businesses are adapting (The New York Times)

Commentary & Miscellaneous:

• The case for treating a well-run bus system as if it were an express sidewalk; reliable and fundamental to the urban fabric (Fast Company)

This is an Open Thread.