YIMBY News for 4/5

[Eric Budd]

King County Council Deadlocks Over Transportation Funding

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.23. growth, housing, mobility, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

[image: King County Council Deadlocks Over Transportation Funding] A move to impose a countywide 0.1% sales tax to bolster spending on unincorporated roads in King County was delayed this week, after disagreement over a provision setting aside a portion of the revenue for local cities. The King County Council, acting as the board of the King County Transportation District, is expected to take up the measure again next month, moving back the expected start date of sales tax collections by six months. King County's Road Services Division was in a precarious financial position even before last De

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Op-Ed: Washington State Must Accelerate Amtrak Rail Upgrades

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.25. development, downtown, growth, house, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Let's build a seamless, frequent network of passenger rail and local transit.[image: Op-Ed: Washington State Must Accelerate Amtrak Rail Upgrades] Sitting in traffic and being unable to predict how long the trip will take is a fact of Western Washington life. Imagine if we had reliable, frequent intercity passenger rail service along the Amtrak Cascades route serving Vancouver BC, Eugene, Oregon, and the many communities between. Further, imagine all day Sounder service along the entire Everett to Lakewood route. A reliable, fast, and frequent, intercity regional rail network integrated with l

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Almost 14,000 Colorado kids are on the waitlist for subsidized child care with program on the brink of collapse

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.38. affordable, apartment, development, downtown, house, housing, income, rent

[image: A young boy holding a blue ringed toy stands in partial sunlight, with a few bubbles floating nearby against a dark background.] *A Colorado Sun series* [image: Silhouette of a child sitting next to text reading "Out of reach" and "Colorado’s crumbling child care system."] This series aims to unpack why child care costs have become so high for both families and providers and will also explore what it will take to make child care affordable and widely available across the state. *Read more* After two of Chelsea Breese’s kids lost their father in November, her daughter, then age 7, began

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