Month: May 2021

• Metro rehiring 200 part-time operators
• Meet Kitsap’s newest oldest ferry
• Metro gearing up ($) for near normalcy
• Will U-Pass suspension continue through the summer?
• Northgate Link service change formally approved ($) by King County Council; only Dembowski against
• Ferry Wenatchee will be broken for months
• Jetty Island ferry ($) returning July 5th
• Seattle VLF will be mostly about bridge maintenance; many activists disappointed
• Take Metro’s benchmarking survey
• Route 44 design to 60%
• Downtown office space demand is back ($)
• Reps. Marilyn Strickland and Cathy McMorris Rodgers co-sponsoring a good TOD bill
• Sen. Cantwell wants to remove more train crossings ($)

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• Move Seattle has a public dashboard
• TCC is hiring
• Also a quarterly report on Reconnect West Seattle
• Judkins Park gets Jimi Hendrix themed art
• Comment on the Federal Way station design
• There’s going to be a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Avenue
• Sen. Joe Nguyen (D-West Seattle) will challenge Dow Constantine for King County Executiye, the most single most important office for local transit
• Claudia Balducci is the new president of the PSRC
• It was a historic legislative session but not a big one for transportation, unless they later pass a package and thus the carbon legislation takes effect
• RapidRide I (Renton/Auburn) to have 3 tiers of station quality
• Nobody wants to be displaced for a Link maintenance facility, but a former Auburn Mayor is thinking clearly about the problem
• Here come the curbless streets
• Who gets what from the stimulus
• Provide feedback on parking and curb space near Roosevelt
• Americans should learn more about rail from other countries

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