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 Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has released its nearly-final designs for a $16 million maintenance project along 15th Avenue NW through central Ballard...
A long-planned street revamp in downtown Seattle made headlines this month when a group of preservation advocates, many aligned with Pike Place Market, pushed...
An impressively long list of governments on the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas have joined together to jointly request funding to finish a 200-mile biking...
Almost every single Monday or Tuesday night of 2023 has seen city councils in cities of all sizes across Washington meet with a common...
In January, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced that after over two years of planning, it intends to finally install a permanent bike...
In September of last year, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Director Greg Spotts took the megaphone at a rally of around 100 people on...
One of Seattle's most heavily used bus stops is heading toward a badly needed upgrade soon thanks to coordination between King County Metro and...
One of the first actions that Greg Spotts performed as incoming director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) was to request a "top...