News Roundup: Final Design

• First Hill Streetcar begins "post-performance testing."
• CT will use Mountlake Terrace bus ramps to bypass congestion.
• Mayor Murray proposes cheaper sidewalks to afford more.
• Tacoma Link gets $15m from USDOT. But Feds pass over Northgate Bridge and Pronto expansion.
• Freighthouse Square Final Design ready for comment, will open in 2017.
• ST picks Bellevue for the new Operations & Maintenance Facility (OMF).
• Amtrak Cascades is 20 years old.
• September polling for Move Seattle is very strong, 63-34%, before recent bad press.
• Pedestrian accident data in Tacoma.
• Metro still working through driver shortage, cancelled trips.
• Auburn proposing a revamp of its downtown.
• I-405 toll lanes speeding up trips, especially for people who actually value their time.
• A summary of a September Center City Connector open house.
• Local apodment finalist for an Urban Land Institute Award. Too bad the City Council effectively banned them.
• Seatac the nation's fastest-growing major airport.
• An update on the N 145th St planning.
• 522 Transit Now! meeting tonight.
• "Shared parking" concept could reduce the number of spaces needed on Capitol Hill.
• Every American household spends - conservatively - $1,100 per year to subsidize driving, whether or not they drive themselves.
• Transit Maps of the World now on its third edition.

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