Yearly Archives: 2018
Are One Center City Multimodal Improvements on the Way?
When the One Center City Advisory Board delivered its recommendation last September, we applauded the gains for transit priority and the Downtown Basic Bike Network. Five...
Washington State Senate Passes Car Tab Bill Threatening ST3 Projects
The Washington State Senate was burning the midnight oil into the wee hours of the morning yesterday to vote on a complex bill originally...
Call to Action: Urge State Senators to Fund High Speed Rail...
Last week, the Washington State House came through with $900,000 to partially fund a business case study of high-speed rail connecting Vancouver, Seattle, and...
Sound Transit Pitches Large Fare Increases for Many Express Bus Riders
Sound Transit staff is moving forward with an effort to restructure adult fares on ST Express bus service. Billed as "fare simplification," the changes...
Frequent Transit Nodes and What They Mean for Urban Village Expansions
Ten urban villages' boundaries are expanding in the latest batch of Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) rezones, but by the city's own logic...
Top Urbanist Action: RSVP For Urbanist Volunteer Orientation
Start volunteering your time for urbanism: The Urbanist will hold its first (of what hopefully becomes regular) volunteer orientation. We'll walk through what the...
Meeting Demand for 66 Million Passengers: Sea-Tac Airport Plan Update
Earlier this month, the Port of Seattle Commission was briefed on an update of the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) for Sea-Tac International Airport....
Sprucing Up Alleys in South Downtown
Progress on active alleys continues in Pioneer Square. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has recently wrapped up work on the next upgrade phase...