Monthly Archives: April 2015
New Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Northeast Seattle
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) staff hosted an open house on Tuesday to present conceptual plans for improving bike routes in northeast Seattle between East...
Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Nearside
"How's it going?" I nod to a man clad in brown and black.
"I'm great," he says, even though he has a cell phone to...
April Special Election Endorsements
The King County April Special Election is underway. With a handful of local issues on the ballot, we want to take the time to...
Reenvisioning the Public Realm of South Lake Union, Belltown, and Denny...
When the population of a city doubles, its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. As noted in a paper by the MIT Media Lab,...
Mayor Murray’s Departments Back Better Parking Solutions
Seattle could be on the cusp of better parking solutions. After a year of studying policy options, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and...
Stories from Metro Route 7: Cafe Avole, Rainier Mini-Mart and Stop...
An iron compass, set into the concrete just outside Metro bus stop 8190, lets you know that you’ll never be lost, and that all...
Sunday Video: Volvo Lifepaint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWzeGlaFvI
Volvo Lifepaint by Volvo on Youtube.
Volvo has devised a paint that people bicycling can add to help be bright in the dark. Although Mikael...
What We’re Reading: Shakespeare’s London, Defining Families, and Saving Amtrak Cascades
Build it and they will come: Copenhagen is planning to build nearly 8,000 bicycle parking spaces at the city's central train station.
Save Cascades: If...