Weekly Digest
The following are the latest 10 articles from The Urbanist articles for the week of 04/26/21. You can catch up on other recent articles directly on our online magazine or never miss a story by adding us to your RSS feeds.
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: As a supplement to last year’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, additional federal funding has come through providing local transit agencies with $604 million more to weather […]
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Author: Doug Trumm
Snippet: The Seattle City Council is contemplating issuing bonds for $75 million to be spent on bridge maintenance projects instead of funding $80 million in safe streets maintenance and improvement projects […]
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: There is a big misnomer that Houston doesn’t have zoning and somehow must be a free market dream for land use. But that perception is false as Dave Amos explains […]
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: At this month’s meetup, Seattle mayoral candidate Andrew Grant Houston (“Ace” for short) stopped by to talk about his policy platform. Ace is a certified architect, a housing advocate, and […]
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: In some encouraging news yesterday, Sound Transit shared an updated financial outlook for Sound Transit 3 (ST3). Revised projections show that the program affordability gap has narrowed by $3.6 billion […]
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Author: Doug Trumm
Snippet: Leslie Kern teaches feminist geography, but she is under no illusion that straightforward solutions can magically cure the imbalance and violence baked into our cities. “No amount of lighting is […]
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: The pandemic has meant a big curtailment in passenger rail service for Washington. Right now there’s only thrice weekly long-distance service to Los Angeles and Chicago and a once daily […]
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Author: Stephen Fesler
Snippet: In December, initial construction to facilitate the new King County Metro bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E began. The project will deliver six off-street and five on-street bus layover […]
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Author: Doug Trumm
Snippet: Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for murdering George Floyd led many to breath a sigh of relief. It was the first time a White police officer had been convicted […]
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Author: Charles Bond
Snippet: With an $11.5 billion funding crunch and cost escalations in the Sound Transit 3 program, it’s clear that some cutbacks and delays may be inevitable to allow projects to move […]
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