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Make way for the light rail. That's what the City Council is doing after voting unanimously last night to change up the residential parking zone program (RPZ) throughout Seattle. The vote--ushered in before the light rail launch--is to help prevent parking chaos on residential side streets. The plan: the council will yank away half of the household permits, but it says neighborhoods who've been infiltrated by at least 35 percent of unwelcome parkers can still apply for residential parking restrictions. Now that the council addressed where people can't park, how about they focus on where the commuters and shoppers can park before their prized commuter rail opens without any commuters.

So there's an article about bus fares over on Crosscut--by the Cascadia Center for Regional Development's Matt Rosenberg--that suggests raising the one-zone peak bus fare to $3.50, an amount to make even the most evangelical of bus riders clutch their wallet. (We throw in "evangelical" because the Cascadia Center is a division of the intelligent-designing Discovery Institute.) But it could be a very good idea, we think, against our skinflint judgment.