“The very institutions on which this country operates — economic, political — are absolutely at threat, all at the same time,” said Diane Kenny, who has two grandchildren living in West Seattle. “I’ll be damned if I let them grow up in this situation.” seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

Seattle's Pike Place Market [finally] banning most vehicle traffic in test run, reports Nick Deshais @SeattleTimes seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

Both the yea and nay votes were bipartisan for a package that features the first gas tax boost in nearly a decade. st.news/4jVfFNz

A series of events, including two collisions and some face-to-face advocacy, led the city to quickly install temporary concrete barriers to make a bike lane safer. st.news/42I03r1

New light rail stations open in Redmond this week, the latest development for the citified suburb. st.news/3Sp8gKo

⁦Nick Deshais⁩ on Redmond’s emergence as an urban center role model. (Seattle, take note) From Deadmond to Redmond, light rail transforms a suburb to a city seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

Artemis Technologies -- based in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- is in town to with an electric hydrofoil ferry to demonstrate its use on Puget Sound. st.news/3RR5YDT

Redmond light rail opening draws jubilant crowd. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t… via The Seattle Times

The $1.2 billion, two-station extension creates new options to reach vast Marymoor Park, downtown Redmond shopping, and miles of Lake Sammamish-area trails. st.news/43pvqXt

Look what’s new on Rainier Ave S! (🌱 Plants coming soon.) We’re almost done with a landscaped center median at S Kenyon St, and we recently added center medians at both S Spencer St and S Thistle St.

⁦⁦Nick Deshais⁩ on the latest episode of the WSF shipshow WA gets just 2 bids to build new electric ferries, and the prices are in seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

How much to build Washington's new electric ferries? The bids are in. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

A year ago, the state hoped many companies would bid to build a new fleet. The boats are part of a nearly $4 billion project to completely electrify the fleet. st.news/3S0nJk4

Sound Transit has been the nation's largest recipient of low-interest U.S. infrastructure loans to build mass transit. Future grants and loans are in doubt. st.news/4khCKKk

That intersection looks sooo familiar.

Whidbey, Florida or both?

Following the death of a 12-year-old student killed by an unattended SUV in front of Washington Middle School in March, the Seattle Department of Transportation has blocked a street in front of the Central District school. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

Between April and September on the Amtrak Coast Starlight between Seattle and Portland, you can catch a national park guide onboard who will narrate the journey. st.news/43swqc8

Once in service, in four to six weeks, it will be state's first hybrid-electric boat, but there's no way to charge it yet.

Sometime soon, someone will bike from Alki Beach in West Seattle, by the industrial monoliths on Harbor Island and through the hullabaloo of downtown, all the way to Smith Cove, without once interacting with traffic. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…