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Monthly Archives: December 2016

What We’re Reading: Ghost Cities, Clean Water, And Redesigning Public Space

Transformative: Streetsblog proclaims the best street transformation of 2016. Solution or non-solution?: Despite Seattle's holiday partnership with Uber for cheaper rides, DUIs are way up year-over-year...

We Are Failing On New Year’s Eve Service

Transit agencies around North America are getting ready for travelers in their cities to ring in 2017 in classic fashion, by going out. In...
Angle Lake is the current southern terminus of Link, but the Federal Way Link Extension will add three stations to the south. (Sound Transit)

Seattle’s 2016 News In Review

Author's Note: So many big things happened in 2016, I neglected to mention the U Link extension, which brought light rail service to Capitol Hill...

Streetcar Coming to Downtown Seattle Streets, Construction Starts In January

The long-awaited Center City Connector is finally moving forward to construction. The 1.25-mile streetcar project in Downtown Seattle will get underway in January with early...

The Urbanist’s Greatest Hits Of 2016

Another year, another great list of articles from our writers at The Urbanist. Here are our top ten articles from 2016 based on readership....

Best Bike Infrastructure Of 2016: The Sidewalk

People for Bikes recently announced the results of their nationwide review of all of the new bike infrastructure that opened in 2016, with the...

Everett Is Developing A Bold Downtown Area Plan

The City of Everett is working through a major downtown area masterplanning effort dubbed "Metro Everett". The plan is taking a broad look at...

U District Rezone: A Step Towards A More Inclusive Seattle

Article note: The foreword of this article is a guest contribution from Marlon Herrera, a member of the Get Engaged 2016-17 Cohort, a group of young...