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Yearly Archives: 2017

Sunday Video: Stormwater Pollution and Green Infrastructure Solutions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNy-vaIPXI In this video, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District (NCSWCD) explains how stormwater is generated and poses serious threats to public health...

What We’re Reading: Farewell 2017, Hello 2018

Sky-high in 2017: 2017 set a new record for the most new skyscrapers in a single year. Reducing violations: Seattle's pilot private dockless rental bike...

How I Write the Posts, and Why

Pretty early on I realized, there's no way I'm going to remember all this. The most I can do is throw my hands in...

Work on Seventh Avenue Protected Bike Lane To Begin in Early...

Beginning shortly after New Year's Day, the Seattle Department of Transportation will begin working on a new segment of the Center City Bike Network,...

2016 Traffic Data Trends Look Bad for Pedestrians: Is Vision Zero...

The Seattle Department of Transportation earlier this month released its 2017 traffic report, which finalizes a year's worth of data from 2016 to provide...

Ultra High-Speed Surface Transportation Feasible in Washington, State Report Suggests

A feasibility report on ultra high-speed surface transportation in the Cascadia region was released two weeks ago. The $300,000 study was commissioned by the...

An Infrastructure Plan for a Progressive Wave

The Amtrak Cascades tragedy provided an opening for a certain troll-in-chief to promote his infrastructure plan. If the Republican infrastructure plan--which at one point...

The Urbanist’s Greatest Hits of 2017

As 2017 draws to a close, we're reviewing our top ten most read articles of the year. Looking back, themes emerge, such as the...