10 days until transit comes back to First Avenue.

NEW STORY // Jerusalem Demsas on How Housing Became a Crisis via @urbanistorg // 🔗 theurbanist.org/2024/09/04/jer…

I think it's bad that Seattle's publicly owned power utility is moonlighting in car sales.

Lynnwood City Center has nearly 3,000 homes in development, but most wait on two megaprojects to finalize plans and break ground. Story: theurbanist.org/2024/09/04/lyn…

Top priorities for Washington's 2025 legislative session from the state's largest cities, per the Association of Washington Cities: -Condo reform -Land value tax

NEW STORY // Spot Fixes to Improve Safety on Lake Washington Boulevard Move Forward via @urbanistorg // 🔗 theurbanist.org/2024/09/05/spo…

Cars ruin cities

Listening in on the Ballard Landmark District discussion of the Dan Strauss Missing Link proposal this morning. SDOT's Christiana Farrell just noted that this plan includes removing & replacing every single tree along the south side of Market and the west side of Leary Way.

Haven't seen this rendering before.

I’m a driver. I drive in bus only lanes every chance I get, I stop in virtually every bus zone I see, and I am absolutely ecstatic whenever I hear a car gets ticketed for it. Because I drive the bus. Wish you had interviewed a transit operator, we could explain why this is just.

Traffic safety improvements including crosswalks and speed cushions are coming to Lake Washington Boulevard. But they stop short of the transformation many Seattle residents want to see in the corridor. Story: theurbanist.org/2024/09/05/spo…

The Urbanist interviewed Jerusalem Demsas, author of a new book called "On the Housing Crisis," which delves into exclusionary land use and the political dysfunction keeping it in place. Interview: theurbanist.org/2024/09/04/jer…

This is the way.

Interesting trolleybus news from Seattle. Kiepe Electric are fitting new batteries and chargers to the existing fleet of 170 trolleybuses dating from 2015 -17. The new equipment will treble the off-wire range. All manufactured in the USA. Photo: K P Canavan

This afternoon King County's Affordable Housing Committee told Seattle that continuing to wall off its single family neighborhoods from increased density will keep them unaffordable for lower income residents. This brought a strong response from CM Cathy Moore. "We've got a lot

That restructure will add bus service throughout Snohomish County, too.