Yearly Archives: 2018
Funding Outlook for Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan is Bleak
While we wait for the full results of the Durkan administration's reassessment of spending and deliverables in Seattle's nine-year Move Seattle transportation levy, details...
Sunday Video: Urban Gondolas
https://youtu.be/vdTE4TCqkZo
In this video, City Beautiful highlights gondolas as transportation.
For New Bus Drivers: Thoughts, Tips, and Stories
There's a ton of you guys out there these days. Welcome. Here's what I wish they'd told me when I began:
Generally, bus drivers don’t...
Get Thee to Middle Fork, Cyclists
Skirting the eastern edges of the greater Seattle area, the Snoqualmie River flows down from the Cascades through a broad river valley spread with...
Is It Time for a Radical Rethinking of Open Space in...
Seattle’s urban villages suffer not only from inadequate space to build multifamily housing, but there is also a massive open space inequity versus-single family...
Klyde Warren Park: Experiencing the Gold Standard for Freeway Lids
An important part of my advocacy for lidding Interstate 5 includes letting folks know about successful lid projects around the country. Lid I-5's co-chair...
Dawson’s Extreme Cities Argues for Extreme Climate Change Adaptation
Cape Town’s Day Zero, the day that most water taps in the city will be turned off, has been pushed back to 2019, but...
Forward Thrust Part 1: No City is an Island
In December 2017 I had the fortune to pen, in my capacity as a columnist for City Arts Magazine, a retrospective essay about the...