Sunday Video: A City Built on Water Is Running Out of It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OjUtqv7LDg&t=5s
Bloomberg Green explains how Mexico City is running out of water despite historically having been built on a lake. How can Mexico City solve...
New Seattle Law Opens Door to Childcare within a 15-Minute Walk of Every Home
A land-use ordinance passed by Seattle City Council marks a first step in increasing access to childcare across the city.
Councilmember Dan Strauss (District...
Ideas in Open Streets: Seattle, WA (Finally)
Following several months of discussion, the City of Seattle has received the first applications for opening street space to dining. Since the Seattle Department...
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...