YIMBY News for 7/15

[Eric Budd]

This New England City Hasn't Had a Traffic Death in Three Years

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.89. bike lane, bus stop, mobility, project, transportation, vision zero, walk

In Brief: Somerville, Mass., has gone more than three years without a traffic death. The city has invested in a range of traffic-calming measures, including more speed bumps, more visible crosswalks, better bike lanes and new bus stops. Advocates say it’s a strategy that has worked in other cities as well. The city of Somerville, Mass., recently hit a milestone. Three years have passed since anyone died in a traffic collision on its streets. That streak of fatality-free years overlaps with other trends in street safety. The overall number of crashes has gradually shrunk for the last three year

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Cost of being a Coloradan is weighing on local businesses’ economic outlook

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.09. affordable, affordable housing, construction, cost of housing, growth, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, rent, single-family

Colorado’s businesses are at risk of losing their competitive edge to companies in other states and it comes down to whether people can afford to live here, according to a report from the Romer Institute of Evidence-based Policy. The reasons behind the state’s economic headwinds are multifaceted, but one thing is clear. The housing crunch is making it harder to recruit workers, the report found. The analysis looks at Colorado’s economy relative to Arizona, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington. The states were chosen because they overlap Colorado’s economy based on region or industry, and

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The most surprising winner of the World Cup was American public transit

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.53. bus route, housing, project, urban, zone

[image: Fans wearing orange uniforms sing on a commuter rail.] World Cup fans en route to a Scotland vs. Haiti match in Boston. | Erin Clark/The Boston Globe Much like its indifference toward soccer, America’s aversion to public transport has made it a global anomaly, an oddity encapsulated by the nation’s sacred pre-game pastime: the tailgate. Here in the US, celebrating sports means driving your big car to a colossal suburban gridiron football stadium, where you’ll grill, baby, grill until the smoky scents of burgers and bratwurst float across vast plains of asphalt. So entrenched is the nat

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