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 downtown bike network is about to take a big step forward in the coming months as work finally gets underway to create a...
Late Friday afternoon, walk-on passengers heading to and from Colman Dock on Seattle's waterfront were able to use a brand new pedestrian bridge directly...
The Seattle City Council is set to take a major step toward implementing a transportation impact fee program, following a public hearing on the...
Construction has started on a 1.1-mile stretch of protected bike lanes along Martin Luther King Jr Way, finally starting work to connect Southeast Seattle,...
Users of the Green River Trail through South King County will have a considerably longer wait for a long-promised trail connection to Seattle, due...
The Seattle City Council is set to consider a slew of transportation-related amendments to Mayor Bruce Harrell's proposed budget for 2024, in an annual...
The City of Seattle will be required to return two sizable federal grants, both of which had already been awarded to fund the long-planned...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has released a draft project list intended to go along with its mammoth Seattle Transportation Plan, still in...