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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...
Two buses queue on Prefontaine Place in downtown Seattle

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...
Recreation of the Seattle flag. Cent sign on a blue back ground with text "Penny Wise Pound Foolish"

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...
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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...
Trees, Wallingford, 1920s townhomes

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...
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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...