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.
A series of pedestrian bridges in Kirkland and Redmond will make it easier to navigate the Eastside by walking or biking following grand openings...
King County Metro will significantly scale back the number of scheduled bus trips across the county this September, impacting 4% of trips across the...
The Harrell Administration is prioritizing cars over people rolling and biking on Lake Washington Boulevard.
Seattle Parks and Recreation has announced the schedule for 2023's...
Not allowing drivers to make a free right turn at a red light, or a left turn from a one-way street, will be the...
After including a much-celebrated $50 million allocation for Seattle's deadliest state highway, Aurora Avenue N, in the 2022 Move Ahead Washington transportation package, the...
This coming Monday morning at 6 a.m., the City of Seattle will open a brand new four-lane roadway, connecting the city's central waterfront with...
In late January, a group of lawmakers from both the Washington House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, joined Governor Jay Inslee in a legislative...
For over 50 years, Lake Washington Boulevard between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park has been the site of Seattle's oldest open streets festival,...