YIMBY News for 3/22

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Latvia Shows Path to Break Car Dependence

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.50. apartment, bike path, bus route, bus stop, house, housing, income, parking, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: Op-Ed: Latvia Shows Path to Break Car Dependence] “Google says there’s supposed to be a bus.” I’ve repeated that line many times to my family. Sometimes the bus arrives. Sometimes, as my kid will remind me when we’re waiting anxiously, peering down the street, Google is wrong. This time, I was pretty sure Google was wrong. We had just gotten off a Riga city bus and were attempting to transfer. It was December 24, which in Latvia is the day Christmas is celebrated. I was surprised that the buses were running at all, and feared being stranded in an unfamiliar place. And now we were stand

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Climate change is already happening in Colorado. Here are 10 signs we can see right now. 

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.50. affordable, downtown, homeowner, house, income, parking, rent, supply, urban, walk, zone

Illustration by Kevin Jeffers/The Colorado Sun Story first appeared in: Here is just a sampling of things happening right now in Colorado that we can’t attribute solely to climate change, but that we know will be happening more and more often precisely because of climate change. Loveland banned golf carts and ordered duffers to walk because the dried-out turf couldn’t handle any more damage from tires. Satellite sensors show the portion of Western lands covered by snow at record lows. Thornton has already imposed strict watering limits for the summer. Ski resort workers had their hours cut. Co

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