Author and journalist Matthew Yglesias joins us to discuss his book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.

• Seattle TBD goes to the ballot
• County TBD?(18:35)
• West Seattle options (20:46)
• Bremerton BRT (31:26)
• 130th & 145th St station plans (40:07)

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• Seattle TBD renewal
• Metro drivers (17:35)
• Maximizing ridership (22:57)
• HALA (35:50)
• Gig car share (50:40)

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• East-west passenger rail
• Center city connector on pause (11:44)
• Jump bikes (15:16)
• Opening streets (24:46)
• Community Transit and Everett Transit (31:50)
• Metro cuts (37:35)

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• Swift’s Link connection
• Recovery fare (14:21)
• CDC’s questionable transit advice (21:55)
• ST’s revenue shortfall (27:12)
• Passenger ferries (34:08)
• Tacoma Dome Link (35:49)

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• Sounder North
• Tacoma BRT (13:40)
• No really, Tacoma BRT (31:30)
• Uber + Lime quasi-merger (43:25)
• Huzzah for safe streets (57:15)

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• Parking garages and opportunity cost
• ST3 cuts (17:00)
• Future metro ridership (25:56)
• West Seattle bridge (34:19)
• Musings on a work-from-home future (42:07)

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(Apologies for the audio quality on this one. We had an unexpected gear change before recording.)

We take questions from the reader mailbag.

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Special guest Alex Hudson, Executive Director of Transportation Choices Coalition

• Federal funding & Covid-19 response
• County ballot measure is…dead? (13:23)
• Legislative update (21:19)
• Fare enforcement (26:57)
• Eastside restructure (33:02)
• West Seattle bridge (38:34)

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• Metro’s long range plan and the countywide ballot
• RapidRide R (17:41)
• Monorail expansion (28:15)
• Car sharing (31:30)

• More Connect 2020 gripes
• University St naming (5:33)
• Fare enforcement (8:55)
• MVET bill (29:20)
• SDOT capital projects (34:50)
• North link restructure (46:58)

Note: when we recorded this last week, I-976 had just been upheld by a local court; the upper court has since temporarily sided with Sound Transit.

• Connect 2020 airing of the grievances
• 130th St infill station (18:20)
• Protected bus lanes (32:23)
• Low-income fares (35:27)
• Bike and scooter share (50:19)

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• Why is ridership growth slowing?
• Route 44
• I-976 on hold (new results maps)
• Ride2 cancelled
• Which avenue is your bus?

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• New city council
• I-976 impacts on Sound Transit and Metro (12:49)
• RapidRide K and a possible small victory in Eastgate (44:56)
• Sammamish (50:58)

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• Weekend link disruptions
• Second Montlake bridge? or not (6:41)
• 520 bus restructures (15:12)
• RapidRide J (25:05)
• King County’s new electrification initiative (38:05)

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• Lightning and transit ops
• Love for the NE Seattle restructure (2:29)
• Monorail and ORCA (9:41)
• Downtown Kirkland growth (13:22)
• Ridesharing redux (18:33)
• Wenatchee transit (32:44)
• Ill-timed fare enforcement (41:30)

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• SEPA reform
• Carsharing (8:44) 
• Bus lane enforcement in general… (27:00)
• West Seattle in particular (30:55)
• Passenger-miles matter (32:59)
• Least-reliable routes (36:53)
• Station access funds (38:08)

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