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 is poised to divert a major funding source away from public transit and into general transportation maintenance, thanks to an amendment put forward...
Late Friday afternoon, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced that construction will not start on a protected bike lane, sidewalk, and intersection improvement...
Washington State's incentive programs for hybrid or fully electric vehicles give consumers a reason to choose those vehicles over gas power. To date, no...
When Seattle City Council budget committee chair Teresa Mosqueda released a full slate of tweaks to Mayor Bruce Harrell's proposed 2023-2024 budget early Monday...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced that they've reached a preliminary agreement with the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) over a trail...
The Seattle Planning Commission has laid out a bold re-envisioning of public rights-of-way they hope will be incorporated into the 2024 major update to...
To pay for additional transportation projects, the Seattle City Council is contemplating a $10 increase to the city's vehicle license fee, doubling school zone...
While Seattle's budget proposal has been grabbing most of the headlines over the past month, the King County Council is also thick in the...