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 largest civic campus and most centrally located swath of public open space has a new leader, following city council's unanimous approval for Marshall...
A meeting of an obscure regional planning body got tense last week as elected officials sparred over the issue of expanding King County's urban growth...
Transportation was essentially a footnote this week as Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his proposed changes to Seattle's 2024 city budget, with housing, police tech,...
What comes next when a "transformational" levy didn't transform Seattle streets?
On a Monday morning in late August, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Director Greg...
One of the last segments of the planned Eastrail bike superhighway that will ultimately connect across the entirety of East King County is finally...
A Strauss resolution would give the freight board more oversight and chance to block changes to truck streets.
An under-the-radar resolution moving through the Seattle...
One in four Seattle blocks lack sidewalks, but a new bill would require that significant repaving projects add or repair them.
In 2016, after the...
Late changes to add curving nine-foot-wide bottlenecks and remove bollards will hinder the new bike path.
On Seattle's waterfront, visitors are now able to get...