A couple of interesting pieces of news about the bus tunnel: (1) it will be re-opening in a couple months after what seems like forever and (2) third avenue is going to remain transit-only through downtown during peak travel hours even after the tunnel is back in service. [p-i] While it’s not perfect, keeping the street reserved for buses seems like a great idea and a nice way of taking advantage of the situation to make traffic less awful now that drivers are used to the street being off limits during rush hours.

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