YIMBY News for 7/23

[Eric Budd]

Seattle Should Kick the Ball Forward After Successful World Cup

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.67. bus route, downtown, housing, income, parking, project, public space, rent, urban, walk, zone

[image: Seattle Should Kick the Ball Forward After Successful World Cup] The 2026 World Cup may be over, but Mayor Katie Wilson sees Seattle's momentum as a host city as carrying forward and progress as just beginning. Wilson made just such a case in an op-ed in the Seattle Times this weekend. "I’ve never seen so much collective joy filling our streets, our buses and trains, our public spaces," Wilson wrote. "National and international press sang Seattle’s praises, from the ease of getting around to our tasty Seattle hot dogs. I’ve never felt prouder of our city. And there is much we can learn

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Milwaukee Mayor Abandons Highway Teardown To Calm Irrational Fears Of Driver Class

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.88. construction, development, downtown, house, housing, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban

The mayor of Milwaukee is abandoning a proposal to scrap a half-century-old freeway out of fear of upsetting the region’s motorists, setting aside years of findings that highway removals help revitalize Rust Belt downtowns for the 21st century. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced on July 8 he wanted to maintain the elevated Interstate 794 known as the Lake Interchange, which stretches between the Marquette Interchange and the Hoan Bridge and is approaching the end of its useful life. State transportation officials have been weighing alternative proposals for fixing or removing the freew

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Seattle Funding Measure Adding 100,000 Bus Trips Heads to Voters

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.11. growth, house, housing, income, infill, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Seattle Funding Measure Adding 100,000 Bus Trips Heads to Voters] The Seattle City Council approved a beefed-up renewal of the city's dedicated transit funding measure Tuesday on a 9-0 vote, giving voters the chance to sign onto a major expansion of city-funded King County Metro service. If approved in November, the refreshed Seattle Transit Measure will generate around $138 million per year, the vast majority of which would maintain and expand supplemental bus service across the city to increase Seattleites' all-day access to transit. Increasing the Seattle Transit Measure's funding s

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The Urbanist Case Against Flock

Darrell Owens Substack

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.41. house, income, mobility, project, rent, supply, urban, walk

*Disclaimer: This article and all articles I write do not represent the opinion of my employer. Articles on my blog represent only my personal opinion.* — While the rest of the world’s traffic deaths decline, America’s continues to rise. Dying in a car or being hit by one is as quintessentially American as burgers, guns and war. The American finds their car more essential to life than their own legs. The perceived freedom of movement sold to Americans by fossil fuel companies and car manufactures beckons back to the cowboys on horse back from the old American frontier. Like the sheriffs chasin

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Thursday’s Headlines Turn Cameras into Pillboxes

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.38. apartment, bus route, house, housing, housing cost, mobility, rent, transportation, urban, zone

- Angry drivers in cities worldwide have been so mad about getting speeding tickets that, instead of slowing down, they’re destroying cameras that are proven to save lives. The response is bulletproof cameras resistant to vandalism. (Jalopnik) - Now that the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is expiring, states are looking to new methods for funding infrastructure. (Pew) - It looks like the House version of a new five-year surface transportation funding bill is DOA in the Senate. (Smart Cities Dive) - Through technology, tactical urbanism can now provide data for tr

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