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 network of safe bike facilities continues to expand, if not at the pace that many safe streets advocates would like to see. According...
One of King County Metro's frequent workhorse routes connecting multiple current and future light rail stations along the east side of the city could...
A planned bicycle and pedestrian bridge connecting Sound Transit's coming light rail station at NE 148th Street in Shoreline with the growing residential district...
Just before the end of 2022, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced another planned project to expand the city's safe biking and walking...
Fewer corners of Seattle are set to look more starkly different between the beginning of 2023 and the end than the area around SR...
In response to the indefinite closure of the Spokane Street Swing Bridge, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced Tuesday that it would be...
Restarted by Governors Inslee and Brown in 2019, the IBR has been on a glidepath toward repeating the mistakes of the failed Columbia River...
To stem a widening revenue gap impacting the SR 99 tunnel tolling program, the Washington Transportation Commission is poised to ask the state legislature...