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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Sound Transit Shares Design Concepts for Federal Way Link

Light rail will extend as far south as Federal Way in 2024, serving approximately 36,500 daily riders. Sound Transit is working to design the look,...

Dissecting the MBA’s 10-Point Plan on Affordable Housing

I don’t know if you heard, but urbanists are developer shills. At least that’s the common conception. In reality, many of us are quite...

Sunday Video: How Cohousing Can Make Us Happier (And Live Longer)

Grace Kim, a cohousing expert, explains that cohousing could help create social cohesion for many people and ultimately make them happier.

What We’re Reading: Upsizing, Elite Access Only, and Highway Revolt

Collaborative development: South Lake Union parking lots owned by Recovery Café, Cornish College of the Arts, and Bellwether Housing are being sold for redevelopment...

Budget Tweaks Could Speed Transit, Homelessness Services, and Broadband Plan

The budget season is in full swing. The Seattle City Council met on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss different proposals by councilmembers to add...

The Best Architecture Seattle Has to Offer

Seattle is in the midst of one its largest booms in a history that is almost nothing but a string of booms and busts....

Everett Transit Seeks Feedback on Long-Range Plan Concepts

Everett's effort to develop a 20-year, long-term strategy for its city-operated bus system is moving forward with two competing options. One option would add...
A beg button formerly required to get a pedestrian signal at an intersection. (Photo by author)

SDOT Misunderstands #GivePedstheGreen

Seattle’s transportation department missed the mark in their recent response to the campaign Give Pedestrians the Green. #GivePedstheGreen argues that in urban villages pedestrians...