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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Reminder: Monthly Meetup Tomorrow

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, March 8) we'll be hosting a monthly meetup of The Urbanist! Our meetups are open to all and free to attend...

Epiphany Exchange

Everything about the day was fine, except for this headache. I think you know the type. Imagine a subtle, unending brain freeze, surging every...

Sunday Video: Architecture Should Tell A Great Story

To architect Ole Scheeren, "we should think of architecture and buildings as a space for stories — stories of the people that live there,...

What We’re Reading: Going Dutch

Annexation: Seattle looks toward annexing White Center and now has an incentive to do so ($). Going Dutch: Norway wants to greatly expand bike infrastructure with...

SDOT Launches Map Tool To Help Street Users Deal With Construction

An interesting new tool is now available on the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)'s website. It's a city map that displays construction-related street impacts happening...

Bike Share Deserves Public Investment

Update: At the March 1 transportation meeting, Lisa Herbold's anti-Pronto amendment was defeated in a 1-5 vote, but Mike O'Brien's amendment to buy out...

Jocular Gelato

Into the mic I said, "Let's get outta here!" "We got a wild a driver tonight!" the husband of the mid-aged couple sitting up front...

CascadiaCast Episode 6: Nathan Vass

On this episode of CascadiaCast, I had a lively chat with Nathan Vass, who splits his time between driving for King County Metro and...