Monthly Archives: February 2014
Exploding Oil Trains Currently Run Through Downtown Seattle
Two months ago in Casselton, North Dakota, a train carrying crude oil from the Bakken oil fields hit a derailed soybean train on the...
Why Tech Workers Should Care About Housing Issues
Technology industry workers are not apathetic. The industry is known for its passionate defense of civil liberties, the unprecedented scope of the philanthropy of...
How Does Sound Transit Expand?
Sound Transit, the regional transit agency that builds Link and Sounder rail services and operates a lot of our express buses, is currently updating...
Improving the Grid in Capitol Hill
Residential, woonerf. Attributed to: La Citta Vita - license - original
Over the past few years, the southern section of Manhattan's Broadway has steadily transformed from a major vehicle arterial into a...
Pedestrian Retail Areas
Great cities have active pedestrian-oriented retail areas, and Seattle has many. Could we use more? I think so, and Seattle Department of Planning and...
Amad, iPads, and Customer Service
Read more stories form the road at www.nathanvass.com.
It's that kid again, the one with the observant eyes. I've had a chance or two to...
The Bigger Picture of Viaduct Traffic
This past week saw a new plot twist in the Bertha tragicomedy: vehicle traffic is way down on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, from 110,000...
5 Cities And Their Housing Cost Solutions
Next City's article "Five Extreme Models to Combat High Rent" is an interesting read simply because it lays out solutions to housing price problems that have actually...