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.
The project is a big step for Snohomish County's largest city, which has been slow to expand safe bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
This spring, city...
Early last week, crews with Seattle's Office of the Waterfront installed a very short stretch of two-way bike lane, at the foot of Yesler...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced plans to install automatic traffic enforcement cameras at three locations to enforce dedicated transit lanes and...
Light rail connecting Bellevue and Redmond is slated to open in spring 2024 following Sound Transit's starter line decision.
Sound Transit was officially given the...
One of downtown Seattle's most congested roads holds back the entire city's transit network...but major solutions are nowhere on the horizon.
Traffic congestion on Denny...
Kitsap County's largest city, Bremerton, is moving forward with a transportation project that has the potential to catalyze momentum for improved walking and biking...
Seattle's long-planned but much-delayed attempt to connect its two existing streetcar lines via a downtown extension along First Avenue is once again in trouble....
A plan to dramatically expand Seattle's school zone speed enforcement program hit a snag this week.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) told a...