Monthly Archives: May 2023
Join The Urbanist for a Lid I-5 Tour of Seattle’s Freeway...
The Urbanist is excited to announce our first tours of the season. The inaugural tour is 10am Saturday, May 27th with Lid I-5, a...
King County Metro Plans Dramatic Schedule Cuts This Fall
King County Metro will significantly scale back the number of scheduled bus trips across the county this September, impacting 4% of trips across the...
Op-Ed: Seattle is the Capital of Toxic Frugality
Next week is standardized testing at the kiddos’ school. The normal seven-class-a-day schedule will be reorganized to allow morning and afternoon blocks long enough...
Sound Transit Charts Link Extension Openings and Risks Through 2026
The timing of Sound Transit 2 Link light rail and streetcar extension openings is still very much in flux. Sound Transit had hoped to...
The Urbanist Welcomes a New Editor
Join us in welcoming Linda Hanlon as the new lead editor of The Urbanist.
Linda relocated to Seattle from Ohio in 1990, the year that the Growth...
Lake Washington Bicycle Weekends Make a Scaled-Back Summer 2023 Return
The Harrell Administration is prioritizing cars over people rolling and biking on Lake Washington Boulevard.
Seattle Parks and Recreation has announced the schedule for 2023's...
Seattle City Council District 4: Flirting with Disaster, Hoping for Deliverance
Elections have consequences – sometimes far greater than we would have initially imagined. Progressive urbanist Shaun Scott’s loss to Alex Pedersen in the last...
Op-Ed: Seattle Should Look at Its Tree Code Through the Lens...
For too long, Seattle’s tree codes have been open to interpretation. That appears to finally be changing, thanks to the careful work of the...