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Monthly Archives: March 2017

You Can Help Pick Colorful Columns For I-5 In First Hill

I-5 is known for its colorful overpass columns in certain parts of Seattle, but the First Hill Improvement Association (FHIA) wants to bring a...

King County Council Should Reject The Sale Of Convention Place Station

King County Executive Dow Constantine recently introduced legislation to the Metropolitan King County Council to approve the sale of Convention Place Station (CPS) to...

Help Shape Your Neighborhood’s Street Improvements

Last month we wrote about a new process that the Department of Neighborhoods (DoN) is engaging in to allocate neighborhood grants focused on street &...

SDOT Will Provide Spot Improvements On Key Transit Routes

A spate of new transit spot improvements in Seattle are in the works for this year, which should go a long way to improving...

Sunday Video: A Farm Remains

Despite nearly a century of growth and change, a farm remains in Rainier Beach, but you almost wouldn't know it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vH6YIIhTmg

What We’re Reading: Vision Zero USA, Walk Battery, And Alt-Berlin

Vision Zero USA: A Portland congressperson heroically submits a Vision Zero bill in DC. Approved: A Seattle hearing examiner rejected an appeal of the land...

Danny Westneat Strikes Again: Misleading Property Tax Analysis Edition

Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat--whom you may remember for leaking a draft of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) committee report in 2014 and...

2016 Numbers: Sound Transit Riding High

Sound Transit is riding high with incredibly healthy ridership growth for 2016, buoyed in large part to the opening of three new light rail stations in...