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.
Seattle's climate plan calls for doubling bicycling, but SDOT is not building its bike facilities to handle the load.
To bike to Climate Pledge Arena,...
WSDOT wants to quit its highway expansion ways and adopt a fix-it-first policy. Will the legislature listen?
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Secretary Roger...
Bollards are on the way to protect pedestrians.
When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wrapped up installation in mid-2022 on what had been intended...
Homebuilders won a brief reprieve with council opting to delay its impact fee push -- for now.
The Seattle City Council declined to approve a...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has reached full design on a set of upgrades to Route 40, one of the city's busiest crosstown...
As Seattle approaches the ninth anniversary of its Vision Zero commitment to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities in traffic by the end of this...
Braking news: Speed-limiting technology could soon be installed in County government cars.
King County could become the first local government in the Pacific Northwest to...
Seattle's downtown bike network is about to take a big step forward in the coming months as work finally gets underway to create a...