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Monthly Archives: April 2017

Sunday Video: Don’t Listen To Me, I’m Crazy

Recently, Laura Foote Clark, Executive Director of YIMBY Action gave compelling and hilarious testimony to implore commissioners to ignore the "crazy people like her" who show...

What We’re Reading: From The Ashes, New Seattle, And Tiny Nation

From the ashes: While Pronto is dead, could Seattle get a new bikeshare system via a private operator? Stuck in slow mode: KIRO 7 walked...

All You Need Is

Here are two figures running for my bus now, tumbling out of the American darkness. They are a man and a woman of proximate...

A Bold Goal: Expediting Sound Transit’s System Expansion

Sound Transit wants to speed ahead with transit expansions, but the first step in doing that involves planning and coordinating to make it happen....

Pedestrian Bridges Will Not Solve the Mercer Mess

On Thursday, Ryan Packer wrote that "South Lake Union Is For Cars" based on the Seattle Department of Transportation's (SDOT) rather Sisyphean efforts to...

To Feed Federal Way And Redmond Extensions, Sound Transit Buys More...

Yesterday, Sound Transit announced the purchase of 30 more light rail vehicles (LRVs) to feed the coming Federal Way and Redmond extensions due to...

Liberty Bank Building Art Evokes Black History

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that the City of Seattle does not require private developers to spend 1% of their budgets...

South Lake Union Is For Cars

Seattle, we need to talk. It's undeniable that we are creating the model for an urban high-tech corridor that eschews the inefficient sprawl that...