Unblock bus stops: San Francisco will ensure that cars stop parking in bus zones.
Septic systems: Fixing septic systems is key to protecting Puget Sound shellfish, Crosscut reports.
No extension: King County’s homelessness authority won’t extend a hotel contract in Seattle.
500,000: Los Angeles has adopted policy to create 500,000 new homes over the next eight years.
Bollards rock: Charles Mudede champions the virtues of the bollard.
Center of growth: Central Seattle has absorbed more then half of Seattle’s growth over the past decade ($).
Indigenous investments: The Cree are planning a 26-story mixed-use apartment building in Montréal.
Big BMR boom: Burnaby’s housing policies are generating a lot of below market-rate housing.
No-bid work: A City of Seattle employee got a no-bid work approval for cleanup of encampments.
Banana republic: The Washington Supreme Court refused to take up a redrawing of state legislative and congressional maps after a state commission failed to meet a legal deadline and illegally proceeded.
Safer intersections: San Francisco reports on the city’s safer intersections pilot program.
Backwards policies: Illinois wants to go all in on highway expansions and it shows just how unserious much of political leadership is about climate action.
Rise of Africa’s cities: Population is growing in Africa and so are the continent’s cities ($).
Cycle boom: The cycling surge in American cities may be here to stay.
Still recovering: Foot traffic in American city cores is still slowly recovering.
Cross-border HSR: Mexico plans to study a Monterrey-San Antonio high-speed rail line.
The climate candidate: CityLab explores the rise of the local climate candidate, including some in the Seattle area.
Bin it: A New York City councilmember-elect wants to solve the city’s sidewalk trash problem using European solutions.
Aspen for all: Aspen businesses want to make some streets better for people walking, rolling, and biking.
A long time coming: Cincinnati has approved the city’s first downtown affordable housing project in decades.
Bike policies save: Better biking policy could save more than 15,000 lives per year in the United States by 2050.
Inequitable transportation: Texas’ highway expansion approach has made the state come under fire for disregarding racial equity.
Bikes add value: Tripling biking in London could increase the city’s economy by $6.5 billion per year.
Becoming an anti-racist city: What would it take for Tacoma to become an anti-racist city?
Transit and pandemics: Governing looks at what history teaches us about pandemics and transit ridership.
Eliminating parking reqs: Toronto may end parking minimums for new developments.
Better ways: Advocates suggest better ways to address gas prices than the Biden administration is seeking.
Faster rate: Washington kids are getting vaccinated faster than the national average.
C-PACER: Sightline highlights how King County has set a new standard for clean energy financing for commercial buildings.
Institutional shortcomings: Publicola reports on an audit highlighting shortcomings in punishing misconduct within the Seattle Police Department.
Proportional representation: How could proportional representation help candidates?
An unfortunate event: A Sound Transit light rail train became stranded last week, causing chaos.
