{"id":134989,"date":"2026-03-11T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:08:09","slug":"bus-loving-city-high-impact-tourism-and-build-small-the-urbanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134989\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus-Loving City, High Impact Tourism, and Build Small \u00bb The Urbanist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bus-loving city: CityLab took a deep dive this week into why Seattle is America\u2019s most bus-loving city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Backing Cascadia HSR: Microsoft has kicked in $300,000 to help fund the Cascadia high-speed rail business case study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Melrose Promenade: A new community crosswalk has opened up<\/a> as part of the Melrose Promenade on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

MHA chat: Sara Maxana, a housing advisor for the City of Seattle, sat down with The Seattle Times to talk about the city\u2019s Mandatory Housing Affordability rezoning program<\/a>\u00a0($).<\/p>\n

High impact tourism: The climate impact of tourism may be much higher than originally thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Park the bikes: To fix \u201cbike clutter,\u201d perhaps try investing more in bike corrals and bike racks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Central Area landmark: The Mount Zion Baptist Church in the Central Area is slated for historic landmarking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cratering patronage: Public bikeshare is Paris is cratering after a botched rollout<\/a> by the city\u2019s new primary operator of upgrades.<\/p>\n

Build small: To solve the housing crisis in Britain, an opinion writer in The Guardian says that the country should support smaller housing units<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Love of city: In the post Brexit world, Londners identify more with their city than their country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Envisioning 15th: Locals near 15th Avenue E on Capitol Hill have a vision for their retail district<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tax the rich: Seattle is at the crossroads of imposing a $75 million per year tax on very wealthy businesses to credibly address the homeless crisis<\/a>\u00a0($). Mayor Jenny Durkan has issued a veto threat against the tax and housing solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus-loving city: CityLab took a deep dive this week into why Seattle is America\u2019s most bus-loving city.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-134989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}