News Roundup: Cracking Down

• Better enforcement coming to regional Park & Rides, with KIRO highlighting a recent crackdown. (KIRO)
• More First Hill Streetcar delays: SDOT and Inekon are another 30 days behind their most recent goal of having all cars certified by the end of June. (KING 5)
• Mercer Island's development moratorium has been extended another six months. Meanwhile, the Stakeholders Group was tasked with writing a news article from 2035 describing Mercer Island, and the submissions are fascinating. (MI Reporter)
• Ready for the 90 heat this weekend? Take heart that this is the last summer in which you'll have to suffer through the stagnant swelter of Metro's current trolley fleet. (KIRO)
• The Mayor announced a new Office of Planning and Community Development, tasked with coordinating and directing growth. Both neighborhood groups and urbanists are cautiously optimistic, which really just means it's an unknown quantity. (The Urbanist)
• Dueling ST3 editorials from the usual suspects, local electeds on the Pro side and Niles and co. on the other. (Seattle Times, $)
• Gag order: in a sign that things are about to get mighty litigious, the state pulls the plug on Bertha's Expert Review Panel, because "hav[ing] an ongoing three people out making opinions which are public "could hurt taxpayers." (Seattle Times, $)
• In a recent PSRC survey, only 1 out of 5 solo drivers said that they could be persuaded to stop driving. (Seattle Times, $)

This is an open thread.