Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman
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Bertha, the massive highway tunnel boring machine, is stuck in one place underground until at least next March. The future of State Route 99 has...
Yesterday, councilmembers Rasmussen and Licata asked that Council postpone by three weeks the decision to move forward with the Center City Connector project. On its face, their...
  Sound Transit, the regional transit agency that builds Link and Sounder rail services and operates a lot of our express buses, is currently updating...
Yesterday, in Mayor Murray's first state of the city speech, he touts downtown's low single occupancy mode share (page 10) - fewer than half of...
Last week, Michael Andersen at People for Bikes posted new data based on the most recent Census that shows the poorest Americans are twice...

Why Urbanism?

Sometimes, when having conversations with fellow environmentalists, I find a disconnect in our understanding of urbanization. In the past, cities were regarded as dirty,...