Local News:
- A new greenway along the Seattle waterfront will open in two phases on Friday (SDOT Blog).
- Mayor Wilson announced an expansion of the popular Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, which will now be every non-Seafair weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day (Seattle Bike Blog). Also on The Urbanist and The Stranger.
- Amtrak’s expanded trainyard in SODO is halfway done and on track to open next year (The Urbanist). New Airo trains are coming to Amtrak Cascades later this year (KUOW).
- Diesel prices hit a record $7.10 in Seattle (The Seattle Times, $).
- The draft EIS for the Everett Link Extension is expected to be released this fall (Sound Transit).
- “Send light rail’s 1 Line to Tacoma and unify the region” is certainly one opinion (The Seattle Times, $).
- The FYI Guy found the Seattle census tracts with the highest percentage of residents in each age decade (The Seattle Times, $). Unsurprising: the U-District and UW Dorms are mostly college-age (18-20s); nearly half of residents in tracts of LQA/Westlake and Capitol Hill are in their 30s.
- Seattle CM Alexis Mercedes Rinck promotes recent bus improvements with Sal, SDOT’s “SpokeSalmon” (SDOT Blog). When did Sal become so car-brained?
- Retro Metro: The U-Pass was born 35 years ago, offering unlimited transit rides to students at low cost (Metro Matters).
More headlines below.
Further afield:
- Even if every car were perfectly safe, electric, and free, a car-dependent society does more harm than good (Streetsblog USA)
- NJ Transit’s plan to get 40,000+ soccer fans from Manhattan to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup matches will include barring NJT commuters from Penn Station for 4 hours before each game (The New York Times, gift link).
This is an Open Thread.