Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
During this week last year, the entire city was talking about the leaked proposal from the HALA committee that proposed eliminating all single family...
The new 520 bridge is now open to cars, but the Seattle side of the project is still a long way from completion. Pedestrians...
The alternative routes for the missing link of the Burke-Gilman trail through Ballard are now in the public comment and outreach phase.
A lot of...
Almost all transit advocates are in agreement that the proposal that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) unveiled in late June for improvements to...
The Pronto bike share system yesterday announced a last minute station move in advance of the long holiday weekend. And they are moving very...
Last year, when the City of Seattle acquired the dilapidated Sisley properties on NE 65th Street under eminent domain, the drumbeat of neighborhood residents...
The Downtown Residents Alliance (DRA) has filed an appeal on the SEPA Threshold Determination for the implementation of Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) in Downtown...
A bit more than a week ago, King County Metro made a quiet revision to the northeastern tail of Route 62. Introduced as part of...