Draft Regional Transportation Plan Glosses Over Harmful Roadway Expansion
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has released a draft of the latest update to the central Puget Sound's regional transportation plan. Required to...
Shoreline Parks Bond Returns for February 8th Ballot
After being 122 votes short from being validated in the April 27, 2021 special election, the Shoreline Parks Bond is back for another shot...
Rental Assistance, Conflict Mediation Slowing Evictions in Bellevue – For Now
Much advocacy and media focus has been rightly granted to the newly-elected Mayor Bruce Harrell's one-month extension of Seattle's eviction moratorium. However, this level...
Urban Life in the Metaverse: Potential for Utopia or Wholly Unnecessary?
South Korea’s capital city of Seoul recently unveiled plans to become the first major city government with a solid foothold in the metaverse. Both a result...
Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with...
What to Know About Washington State’s Competing Missing Middle Housing Bills
Housing policy is front and center in the Washington State House this short session, as highlighted by a recent public hearing in which differing...
PSRC Retools Federal Transportation Funding Formulas, Drops Proposal for More Bike and Ped Funding
On Thursday, the Puget Sound Regional Council's (PSRC) Transportation Policy Board approved a new framework for allocating an anticipated $580 million dollars in federal...
Seattle’s Traffic Camera Funds Earmarked for Statewide “Capacity Building” Efforts
For the entirety of 2021, the City of Seattle issued citations to drivers using the West Seattle low bridge during the hours of the...