Durkan Vetoes $86 Million in Covid Relief Citing Fiscal Restraint
After Mayor Jenny Durkan vetoed a Covid relief package saying it depleted the City's rainy day fund, Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda fired back that...
Midweek Video: How Humans Are Making Pandemics More Likely
https://youtu.be/qp5CEcIyk94
Vox explains how human expansion into natural habitats is directly linked to the spread of new and deadly diseases in human populations.
Sunday Video: How To Build A City Around Bikes Fast
https://youtu.be/h-I6HFQXquU
Bloomberg CityLab explains how cities can rebuild around bikes quickly for the Covid and post-Covid era and why it’s vitally important to do so....
Seattle Considers Thinking About One Day Accepting Permits to Maybe Open Streets to Dining
Seattle will permit restaurants and retail shops to open into traffic-less public streets one block at a time. Two months after the idea was...
Transit Agencies Ask Feds for $36 Billion to Weather Covid Recession and Keep Projects...
Sound Transit hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship.
Joining 25 other transit agencies from...
SDOT Inching Toward West Seattle Bridge Repair Plan
Four months into the West Seattle Bridge closure, we do have some answers but plenty of lingering questions, too. The Seattle Department of Transportation...
WSDOT Supporting Low-Stress Streets and Pop-Up Commerce on State Highways During Pandemic
Washington's state transportation department is launching a temporary program that will make some lower-speed highways available to open streets and commercial uses during the...
Ideas in Open Streets: Bothell, W.A.
Bothell has opened up its Main Street for retail and restaurants in the age of social distancing. For a block of the city’s traditional...