Monthly Archives: December 2015
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: Cost Estimates and Case Studies
Yesterday, I covered the need for lid parks in Downtown Seattle and what they should be used for. In this article, I look at (very...
Metro Proposes Eleventh Hour Changes to Capitol Hill Bus Restructure
King County Metro Transit staff are evaluating the ability to still salvage some of the agency's widely panned Capitol Hill restructure. Born out of...
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: The Time To Act Is Now
Amid Seattle's rapidly growing inner neighborhoods remains the urban scar of I-5, a massive concrete and steel ribbon that is the lasting legacy of...
Sunday Video: Architecture Turning Dreams Into Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyNGDWnmX0U
To world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels, architecture is the fiction of the real world, in which dreams about the way we aspire to live our...
What We’re Reading: Sound Transit 3 System Planning Is Underway
Pill Hill towers: Swedish Medical Center has applied for building permits, which would the healthcare company to build two new 17-story towers on their...
In Search of a Sensible Sound Transit Expansion Plan
Seattle Subway has proposed an alternative to Sound Transit 3 (ST3) called "STcomplete" that would double the project timeline from 15 to 30 years...
Planning A New Portage Bay Park in the University District
The University District is slated to get an expanded park space on the shores of Portage Bay in the coming years. The project, tentatively...
STcomplete Q&A with Seattle Subway
On Wednesday, I sat down with Jonathan Hopkins, the Political Director for Seattle Subway. Last July Seattle Subway released a bold proposal for Sound Transit’s...