What We're Reading

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What We’re Reading: Bailout Transit, PDX Open Streets, and London’s Train Daddy

Bailout transit: Amtrak needs more than $1 billion from the federal government to cover costs associated with the pandemic. Local transit agencies across the...

What We’re Reading: Brooklyn Shrinking, Fully Funded, and Chaotic Purpose

Brooklyn shrinking: Why is Brooklyn shrinking if it's booming? Cut break lines: In Seattle, brake lines on dockless rental bikes were found cut recently. Brutal: Will...

What We’re Reading: Bertha, Buses, and Bids

Impending doom: The Seattle Times reports on the challenges and risks as Bertha edges under SR-99 and Downtown, including fears that more sinkholes might follow ($),...

What We’re Reading: Tides of Change

Packing it in: Despite efforts to spread out development and population growth in Washington, D.C. (the city), most of that has been focused in...

What We’re Reading: New First Hill Streetcar

Get addicted: Forget SimCity, meet the new Cities: Skylines, a new planning simulator that waste your life away! Let us build rail: Electeds all across...

What We’re Reading: University Link Is Nearly Here!

#NoNewRoads: Strong Towns ran a special series on #NoNewRoads and featured a variety of pieces on Washington's wasteful highway spending. Streets for people: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways suggests...

What We’re Reading: Make It So

  Now calling at Union Station: It looks like Denver has a Union Station, too, and it's pretty darn cool. The new multi-modal facility marries...

What We’re Reading: A new parklet arrives on Second Avenue

Biking in Bellevue: Bellevue is planning to build out more trail along SR-520 and is reviewing options for bike lanes on 116th Avenue NE. Hail...