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 City of Seattle is seeking to grapple with what the long-term implications of how Seattle residents expect to use public space following the...
Last week, the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced 166 projects that have been selected to receive $2.2 billion dollars in Federal funding through...
Weeks after the City of Seattle displaced residents of an RV encampment on SW Andover Street in West Seattle just south of the West...
After years of advocacy pushing to create a safer environment for people walking and rolling across the NE 45th Street overpass between Wallingford and...
In June of 2020, the Kirkland City Council voted to create more space for restaurants and other businesses by closing one block of business-lined...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) spends millions of dollars per year maintaining and replacing equipment on its traffic signal system, which consists of...
A relative flood of new grant opportunities for tribes, cities, towns and counties is on its way as a result of the passage of...
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Wednesday that he has selected Gregory Spotts to be the next director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)...