Stay away: The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is closed today.
Drink it up: A map of every Seattle brewery, this could take you a while…
Social welfare reform: There’s a battle brewing over public housing policy and practices in Seattle. The mayor and the Seattle Housing Authority are odds.
Share the road: Maybe the mantra isn’t one that we should be touting.
In the dust bin: California has tossed away the old delay metric in Level of Service (LOS) analysis–too bad cars!
Closed: The Battery Street Tunnel will be closed later this month for 4 days, so watch out drivers!
The Denny: A new urban bike has been crowned king, and it’s Seattle-based.
Judgemental maps: It’s fun to be a jerk sometimes, and these mapheads have done a fine job at that.
Real ridesharing: It only took a few years for Lyft and Uber to decide that actual ridesharing would be a good idea.
Free ORCA pass: If you live north of 85th Street, you could get free rides and a free ORCA pass.
Parking design: Yeah, that doesn’t seem right, but this woman has worked to make parking lots a whole lot better.
Parking costs: We’ve said it a lot, parking adds cost to housing, which reduces affordability; the rules are outdated.
Phasing plan: There’s a good phasing plan for real highspeed rail in the US.
No more roads: Missouri voters turned down a horrendous roads tax.
Carbon tax: Voters are beginning to feel a lot better about a carbon tax.
Family-friendly Vancouver: The story of how Vancouver, British Columbia became on of the most family-friendly urban places in North America.
Pricing caps: France is toying with the idea of putting pricing caps on housing, but will it work?
Unincorporated cycletrack: King County is wading into uncharted territory with a cycletrack to connect two trails in the rural east county!
Bertha bust: The New York Times highlights our failed tunnel effort, and reminds of how screwed up the fix-it solution is.
A conundrum: Many renters could get a mortgage, but they just can’t afford a home.
Cycling and wealth: The data surrounding cycling rates and income are very interesting, and maybe what you expect.
Parks won: In case you missed it, we had a vote on a Metropolitan Park District, and the parks won!
