YIMBY News for 6/27

[Eric Budd]

Bellevue Council Approves Reduced Speed Limits in Search of Safety Gains

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.81. development, downtown, housing, mobility, multimodal, project, public hearing, rent, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk

[image: Bellevue Council Approves Reduced Speed Limits in Search of Safety Gains] The Bellevue City Council gave the green light Tuesday to enact speed limit reductions across a wide swath of the city's arterial road network. The "Safe Speeds Bellevue" program comes in the wake of an uptick in fatal and serious injury crashes on Bellevue's streets, with lower posted limits just one tool being deployed in an attempt to stem the tide. Out of all of the streets in Bellevue with posted speed limits of 30 mph or higher, 84% will see those limits reduced under this proposal, with the vast majority g

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Op-Ed: Yet Another Deadly Rainier Valley Crash Points to Need for Protected Bike Lanes

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.44. bike lane, downtown, income, mobility, rent, urban, walk

[image: Op-Ed: Yet Another Deadly Rainier Valley Crash Points to Need for Protected Bike Lanes] “That’s Mr. S. He substituted for our class a bunch this year,” my nine-year-old tugged at my arm and whispered loudly. My heart dropped. We were listening to Mayor Katie Wilson address the crowd at the Seattle Streets Alliance Block party. I wasn’t sure my kid was even really listening. It was raining and he was whining that he wanted to go home. I’d bribed him to stay with the promise of an extra cookie. Towards the end of her remarks, Wilson spoke about how Christian Salyer (Mr. S.) had been *kil

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Sound Transit Board Advances West Seattle Link Into Final Design

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.11. affordable, construction, development, house, project, rent, urban

[image: Sound Transit Board Advances West Seattle Link Into Final Design] The Sound Transit Board of Directors voted Thursday to authorize a pair of contracts targeting the West Seattle Link Extension, fulfilling a promise to get that project moving quickly after a major update to the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) system plan last month. A mammoth $341 million contract with Jacobs Engineering is expected to be enough to get West Seattle Link into final design, and comes as Sound Transit has received its first permit approvals from the City of Seattle on the project. A smaller, $48.7 million joint cont

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