From Seattle: "Metro rolls out big red RapidRide bus design," by Aubrey Cohen

King County Metro Transit rolled out sleek new buses for its planned RapidRide routes Monday and announced $13.8 million in new federal funding to help the service start next year.

"This is a transit-happy city," Matthew Welbes, executive director and acting deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, said in front of the new red-and-yellow, articulated bus Monday morning. (Read more here.)