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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, hey, good morning. It's Paige Browning. It's Monday. This is Seattle now. Mayor Bruce

Harrell said on Friday that public safety is his administration's highest priority. Within City

Hall, that includes a lot of talk about policing and property crime, but according to Seattle

residents, the biggest public safety issue in people's lives is traffic. Seattle University

professor Jacqueline Healthgot is here to break down how traffic

safety rose to the top and the different components of what makes people feel safe in Seattle.

But first, here's what's coming up this week.

It's a big week for the Seattle City Council. Council members are planning to finalize the city's budget for the next two years and potentially implement a new city tax on capital gains. The key votes on those two issues will happen tomorrow and Thursday, so there's still time to contact your council member if you have thoughts. And Thursday is the last day to weigh in on the state's revamped plan for public lands.

The Department of Natural Resources released a 15-part roadmap for you to check out.

It lays out how the state will manage the spike in recreational activities like hiking and manage threats to ecology. Included are ways to improve accessibility to outdoor recreation and improve facilities at some sites. We'll share a link to the comment form in our show notes. That's it for now. Check back in tonight for evening headlines.

How safe do you feel in Seattle? The way people answer that can depend on where someone lives.

To boost public safety, the city's focused right now on hiring more police officers and the city council crack down on crimes involving drugs and

prostitution earlier this year. But when residents think of their safety, most of them are actually

thinking about something else, traffic. That's according to the Seattle Public

Safety Survey, which is run by Seattle University in collaboration with SPD. Here's how traffic

safety rose to the top in the recent survey, from the answers to a myriad of safety questions.

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