News Roundup: Failure to Yield
by Zach Shaner from Seattle Transit Blog on (#FYGE)
- Another hit and run on Dexter Avenue N, this one thankfully with minor injuries. After turning himself in later in the day, the cellphone-staring driver was cited for failure to yield, but not charged.
- All that bluster about allowing cottages and townhomes in the 65% of Seattle zoned for single family homes? Nevermind.
- Hoping to bring your bike on a long-distance Amtrak train? Keep waiting. "We're hoping for August," Amtrak said of the start date. "But we were hoping for June, for February, for November."
- Give West Seattle credit for showing up and voting on ST's survey, being the #1 option chosen by respondents.
- DPD is now reviewing a proposal for structured parking at Northgate, a planned one-to-one replacement of stalls displaced for Northgate Link.
- No deadlines are better than missed deadlines: SDOT is being mum on the First Hill Streetcar's progress.
- In conjunction with the Point Defiance Bypass project, 25th Street in front of Tacoma's Freighthouse Square will become one-way, eastbound.
- Another one bites the dust: first Matt Preedy and now Todd Trepanier are leaving the beleaguered Deep Bore Tunnel project. Trepanier will go home to Yakima to assume a Regional Administrator role within WSDOT.
This is an open thread.