YIMBY News for 6/23

[Eric Budd]

Everett Transit Annexation Would Level Up City's Transit System, Mayor Says

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.42. bus rapid transit, bus route, comprehensive plan, development, downtown, growth, parking, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

[image: Everett Transit Annexation Would Level Up City's Transit System, Mayor Says] Snohomish County's largest city has had its own city-run transit system for decades, but Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin is looking forward to a different future. The annexation of Everett Transit into the countywide Community Transit system is a move that Franklin sees as essential to accommodate the needs of a growing city, she told Everett's transportation advisory committee last week. Franklin's remarks come on the heels of an April announcement that the City of Everett was officially resuming annexation tal

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Showing the mayor just how much it sucks to walk on Federal Boulevard

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.91. bus rapid transit, bus stop, construction, housing, housing authority, mobility, project, rent, transportation, vision zero, walk

As the intense June heat radiated off Federal Boulevard’s asphalt, a group of elderly and disabled residents found themselves in the middle of a crosswalk as the light turned green. “We don’t have a chance to get across,” said Cleo Johnson, a resident of Denver Housing Authority’s Mountain View complex at Federal and Louisiana Avenue. “The walk light only lasts about three seconds and people on a walker or a wheelchair do not have time to cross the road.” As the group struggled to cross the street on time, Mayor Mike Johnston and his Department of Transportation and Infrastructure appointee, A

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