Yearly Archives: 2014
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...
85-foot and 125-foot Height Limits Are A Missed Opportunity
The NC3-85 and NC3-125 zoning designations (Neighborhood Commercial 3, 85-foot/125-foot height limits) are used extensively throughout Seattle. Ostensibly, the goal of NC3 zoning is to create large,...
Pronto Set for a Rainy Start
Pronto Cycle Share, previously working under the name of Puget Sound Bike Share (PSBS), has secured sponsorships, station locations, and is set to launch...