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A Metro bus operating on a snowy Beacon Hill. (Owen Pickford)

Metro Previews Policy Updates for System Growth and Equity Focus

Updates to King County Metro's key policy documents have been delayed due to Covid-induced impacts, but the agency hopes to complete them this year...

Midweek Video: The Case for Federal Transit Operations Support

https://vimeo.com/504477662 It this short video, TransitCenter highlights the inequity of America’s public transportation systems both in term of social and environmental justice. TransitCenter argues that...

Sound Transit Puts Equitable TOD and Bathroom Policy Reform Front and Center

Sound Transit is making good on a policy directive to expand bathroom access to facilities and equitable transit-oriented development (TOD) commitments in Seattle. The...

Kenmore Seeking to Expedite and Incentivize Affordable Housing Projects

Kenmore could be on the cusp of passing a package of amendments that streamline the permitting process for affordable housing projects and provide a...

Sunday Video: America’s Worsening Homelessness Crisis

https://youtu.be/LduaiX0yj6E Bloomberg Quicktake highlights America’s growing homelessness struggles and ways that could lessen it.

National Social Housing Plan Urges Creation of 12 Million of Homes

Since the Reagan administration, the federal government has gotten out of the game of producing social housing itself. A new report titled "The Case...

Sunday Video: What Is Cancer Alley?

https://youtu.be/XAFD-0aMkwE Vox explains how environmental racism through public policy and private actions can lead to environmental health catastrophes for people of color. Coronavirus is killing...
Seven passengers wait to board a Sound Transit bus. (Photo courtesy of Sound Transit)

Sound Transit Fare Enforcement Reform Still Fraught, Pilot Coming Along With Fare Changes

Sound Transit has been grappling with fare enforcement reimagination for the past two years in the wake of racial equity and social justice concerns,...