Midweek Roundup: the next Williamsburg

A temporary community art project accepted the painting talents of any interested attendees of the Crosslake Connection opening celebration (Nathan Dickey).

The Crosslake Connection of the 2 Line was covered extensively by STB and basically every news outlet, so (most) stories related to that are not included here.

• In 2018, Claudia Balducci told The Stranger that East Link (now the 2 Line) would not turn Bellevue into the next Williamsburg. Eight years later, Balducci reflects on how she was sort of right and sort of wrong" (The Stranger)
• Highland Park Bikelash Presents Early Test for Katie Wilson's SDOT (The Urbanist)
• Urbanist Dad" Ron Davis is running for WA House of Representatives in North Seattle (PubliCola)
• Man describes moments he stopped out-of-control Metro bus (The Seattle Times, $)
• Community Transit offers classes in how to use public transit for adults and kids (Cascade PBS)
• Path Clears for Bainbridge Affordable Housing Project After Appeal Dismissal (The Urbanist)
• The Joy of Numbered Streets (Human Transit)
• How to fix the broken gas tax (StreetsblogUSA)
• Seattle Advances Four Pilot Low-Pollution Neighborhoods' (The Urbanist)
• RapidRide I Line construction update (Metro Matters)
• SDOT will install a new mix of temporary barriers at Pike Place to see what works and what doesn't (SDOT Blog)

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