News Roundup: Mysterious Disappearance

• SDOT presents its report on projects to make things better on the West Seattle Bridge.
• Eric Scigliano looks into the mysterious disappearance of "Proximate Commuting."
• Are Metro's new Orion buses dangerous to pedestrians?
• There's a bus driver shortage.
• Seattle makes its comments about the Westside SR520 plan. Transit priority is on the list; the bus volume here is so high that no amount of priority is really enough.
• Unconscious driver takes a 550 onto a Bellevue sidewalk.
• New catamaran Water Taxi starts sailing.
• I suppose a park is better to "divide the city" than I-5, but it's best to put buildings there and not divide the city at all.
• Although there are lots of missing arguments, I have to say I didn't hate this Times Sunday magazine essay ($) on parking scarcity.
• Building low-income housing is hard, partly because zoning increases the competition for adequately dense authorizations.
• Shoreline's 145th St Multimodal Corridor study holding an open house on September 30th.
• Sounder turned 15.
• Yet another Los Angeles-Las Vegas HSR proposal; will this one do the trick?

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