Stay away: The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is closed today.
Drink it up: A map of every Seattle brewery, this could take you a while…
Social welfare reform: There’s a battle brewing over public housing policy and practices in Seattle. The mayor and the Seattle Housing Authority are odds.
Share the road: Maybe the mantra isn’t one that we should be touting.
In the dust bin: California has tossed away the old delay metric in Level of Service (LOS) analysis–too bad cars!
Closed: The Battery Street Tunnel will be closed later this month for 4 days, so watch out drivers!
The Denny: A new urban bike has been crowned king, and it’s Seattle-based.
Judgemental maps: It’s fun to be a jerk sometimes, and these mapheads have done a fine job at that.
Real ridesharing: It only took a few years for Lyft and Uber to decide that actual ridesharing would be a good idea.
Free ORCA pass: If you live north of 85th Street, you could get free rides and a free ORCA pass.
Parking design: Yeah, that doesn’t seem right, but this woman has worked to make parking lots a whole lot better.
Parking costs: We’ve said it a lot, parking adds cost to housing, which reduces affordability; the rules are outdated.
Phasing plan: There’s a good phasing plan for real highspeed rail in the US.
No more roads: Missouri voters turned down a horrendous roads tax.
Carbon tax: Voters are beginning to feel a lot better about a carbon tax.
Family-friendly Vancouver: The story of how Vancouver, British Columbia became on of the most family-friendly urban places in North America.
Pricing caps: France is toying with the idea of putting pricing caps on housing, but will it work?
Unincorporated cycletrack: King County is wading into uncharted territory with a cycletrack to connect two trails in the rural east county!
Bertha bust: The New York Times highlights our failed tunnel effort, and reminds of how screwed up the fix-it solution is.
A conundrum: Many renters could get a mortgage, but they just can’t afford a home.
Cycling and wealth: The data surrounding cycling rates and income are very interesting, and maybe what you expect.
Parks won: In case you missed it, we had a vote on a Metropolitan Park District, and the parks won!
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.