News Roundup: Those Crazy Confusing Lanes
by Zach Shaner from Seattle Transit Blog on (#APM1)
- Seattlish writes up WSDOT's new video explaining how to use the "crazy confusing" I-405 Express Toll Lanes.
- Sound Transit has launched SoundTransit3.org, with a web survey, list of public meetings, background documents, and maps so generic no constituency could possibly mistake them for a promise of service. Please take the survey.
- PLU's magazine Resolute has a great profile of TCC's Andrew Austin.
- A motorcyclist hit both the crossing gates and a Sounder Train on Wednesday, but amazingly escaped with minor injuries.
- We could use this here: San Francisco transit officials have pledged to ride transit for the next 22 days.
- 4 new Pronto stations are coming: one at 12th/Yesler (already installed), one in SLU, one in Denny Triangle, and one Downtown.
- A horrible story involving a Lyft driver attempting to extort sex in exchange for returning a rider's phone. But the bright side is that TNCs make prosecutions much easier: each ride is GPS tracked and both rider and driver have extensive personal info on file.
- Yes, please. The city will pilot a pedestrian-only Pike/Pine this summer, likely between Broadway-11th on Pike at night.
This is an open thread.