Monthly Archives: January 2015

Last year was a very uncertain time for transit in Seattle. At the beginning of it, we were bracing for service reductions by as much as 17%...

As planned, this week the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) began installing a temporary protected bike lane (PBL) on Roosevelt Way NE between NE...

On January 8th, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the University District Urban Design Framework (UDUDF). Prior to this...

If you're a wonk about all things planning, then the City of Seattle may have just the opportunity for you. The Seattle Planning Commission...

I’ve found that many people conflate supply and demand, or price-based resource allocation, with the pseudo-ideal of a libertarian “free market”. Supply and demand is...

Interstate 5, like freeways everywhere, is a real barrier between Seattle’s U-District and Wallingford neighborhoods. Currently there are only four street connections between the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3q24_667eU This video is a time capsule in two ways: First it provides a fascinating history of the sluicing of Denny Hill into Puget Sound...

Tunnel talk: Governor Jay Inslee sits down with Grist to talk Bertha, still supports the project. Streetsblog asks if it's too late to stop Bertha...