Monthly Archives: March 2018
35th Avenue NE Advocates Stand Up for Their Neighborhood
Just before 10am on a recent Sunday morning, around 30 people gathered outside Cafe Javasti, a neighborhood coffee shop just north of NE 85th...
What We’re Reading: Peak Seattle, Northgate TOD, and PCC’s New Home
100 years: 100 years on, the fruits of federally-backed public housing in Bremerton lives on though in different forms.
State funds transit: Virginia legislators appear...
Mall Owner Proposes Northgate Redevelopment Finally
From its inception, Northgate Mall has been a beachhead of autocentric suburbia within Seattle's urban landscape. So it came as a surprise and joy...
State Legislature Passes Big Supplemental Transportation Budget Bill
Legislators were busy beavers this year passing a large number of bills affecting transportation policy across Washington. Several key bills made the final cut,...
Sunday Video: The Seattle Streetcar
https://youtu.be/l4s5JHUTVGg
In this video, advocacy director Abigail Doerr from Transportation Choices Coalition talks about the benefits of the Seattle Streetcar and in particular how the...
Homecoming
What a pleasant sensation, to come back to the textured urban haunts of South Seattle and be greeted with welcome, as if a returning...
Huzzah: Legislature Adjourns with Sound Transit Funding Intact
In adjourning the 65th legislative session, Washington state legislators left Sound Transit 3 (ST3) funding fully intact. Transit supporters breathed sigh of relief. Pressure...
An Open Letter to My Neighbors Who Oppose Safety Improvements to...
As someone who walks, jogs, bicycles, and drives 35th Avenue NE every day, I support the safety improvements the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)...