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Monthly Archives: September 2014

Sunday Video: Get On Your Bike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtCpJTWpBh8 We always keep our eye out for dramatic and fun advertisements, especially when they come to bikes! And boy, does this deliver. Happy Sunday.

What We’re Reading: Float On

City Hall issues: Mayor Murray made mountains over mole hills to delay the name change of Columbus Day--for symbolic reasons that no one cares...

The Glow II

At Letitia I put the lift out, saying goodbye to a couple I haven't seen in some years. He's a Vietnam vet with a summer...

Save Seattle: Tax, License & Insure Pedestrians

Throughout the City of Seattle, residents are seeing their neighborhood streets besieged by free-loading, scofflaws, also known as pedestrians. The crux of the problem...

Seattle Design Festival 2014: Design in Motion

Starting on Friday, Seattle will embark on a two-week festival to explore design. This year's theme is Design in Motion, and it promises to...

StopInfo Feature in OneBusAway Helps Visually-Impaired Riders Locate Stops

Image: (left) Where to access StopInfo within the OneBusAway iOS Application. (right) StopInfo's information screen. Many people rely heavily on visual cues to navigate their environments....

Comment of the Day: Boring Charts

One of The Urbanist's contributors made a very good suggestion to Sound Transit last week: @SoundTransit Please bring back these tunnel boring charts for the current tunneling...

University Link is 87.2% done, and Northgate isn’t far behind

As of July 30, Sound Transit's University Link Extension project was 87.2% complete, up 2.6% from our last update. And the Northgate Link Extension project (formerly...