News and commentary from the past week or so.
News:
- Tug-of-War Over New Transportation Funding Heats Up in Bellevue (The Urbanist).
- Building I-5 left many scars in the Pinehurst neighborhood, new walking and biking projects hope to heal some of them (Seattle Bike Blog).
- Mukilteo’s Plans for ‘Vibrant Waterfront Village’ Start to Come Together (The Urbanist).
- Sound Transit Panel advances land acquisition for West Seattle Light Rail line (Westside Seattle).
- Beacon Ave S safety improvement design work resumes (SDOT Blog).
- ‘The Ave for All’ Transforms U District’s Main Thoroughfare (The Urbanist).
- 2026 Transportation Choices Hall of Fame (Transportation Choices Coalition).
- Peter Ngo named King County Metro’s Vehicle Maintenance Employee of the Year (Metro Matters).
- Seattle’s ‘Centers & Corridors’ Zoning Update Delayed Another Year (The Urbanist).
- Tacoma Pushes to Reimagine Crash-Prone Portland Avenue (The Urbanist)
Commentary:
- Making Every Bus Rapid (City Hikes).
- Greater Seattle: A Supermajority, a Mistake, and a Chance (PubliCola)
This is an Open Thread.
Would love to hear commentary on my piece (Making Every Bus Rapid). It was somewhat surprising to me how little the RapidRide C and D impacted the timetables of the buses they replaced, even as a skeptic or RapidRide. I’ll be interested to see how the R progresses too — there’s been a lot of skepticism in the community but Zahilay also campaigned on it.
There’s a rare reply to the midweek roundup post on Bluesky, commenting on your article: https://bsky.app/profile/kptrease.bsky.social/post/3mxtvexn6r22y