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What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: Congestion Pricing, MSFT Expanding, and Oly Wants Housing

Pay the piper: Uber and Lyft should pay road user fees, perhaps to help fund public transit. Making a difference: Kirsten Harris-Talley served as a...

What We’re Reading: Battery Reuse, Intimidator, and Ghost of McCleary

The Seattle vote: How did Seattle voters choose in the election? Crosscut has the data. Battery reuse: What will happen with the Battery Street Tunnel? Ideas...

What We’re Reading: Pedestrianizing Oxford Street, Uber’s Anti-Urban Plot, and New Mobility Playbook

Homeless youth center: Seattle Central College's South Annex is planned to be a homeless youth center. Advancing inclusion: Inclusionary zoning appears to be providing positive...

What We’re Reading: Craters Be Gone, War on the 99%, and Urban Fire Trucks

Craters be gone: Philadelphia has been successful in zapping away the city's parking craters in larger part due to tax policy. Boosters for ADUs: Many...

What We’re Reading: Upsizing, Elite Access Only, and Highway Revolt

Collaborative development: South Lake Union parking lots owned by Recovery Café, Cornish College of the Arts, and Bellwether Housing are being sold for redevelopment...

What We’re Reading: Deathwater, Cancelled, and Stop Light Removal

Broadway infill: Two properties on Broadway in Capitol Hill are set for redevelopment. Deathwater: Stormwater pollution is killing Coho salmon in Puget Sound ($). Burying a highway:...

What We’re Reading: Beg Buttons, Artistic Land Banking, and Road Rage

Increasing rate: The car ownership rate in America is higher now than it was before the Great Recession. Beg buttons: An anonymous group has posted...

What We’re Reading: Food Lot, It’s Got Seoul, and End of an Era

Food lot: A pilot program for food trucks in the Sea-Tac Airport cellphone lot has launched. Highly concentrated: Venture capital remains highly concentrated in just...