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.
Momentum has been building around Reconnect South Park, a community-led effort to address how SR 99 slices through the neighborhood located near the Duwamish...
The gaps in Seattle's current complete streets legislation are becoming more apparent as the city moves ahead with a repaving project on one of...
Seattle is about to have a new set of voices advocating for increased consideration of how goods are moved around the city and the...
Seattle's long nightmare is over. Nine-hundred and nine days after the West Seattle Bridge was closed out of an abundance of caution around its...
On Monday night, the Lynnwood City Council voted to continue permitting new housing units and office space in its City Center neighborhood, immediately adjacent...
The Neighborhood Street Fund is probably one of the most overlooked components of Seattle's 2015 Move Seattle transportation levy. With a $24 million pot...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is starting its next round of public outreach around the RapidRide J line, a planned transit upgrade for...
Seattle's Third Avenue is arguably one of the most successful transit corridors in the entire country. The street consolidates most Seattle bus routes into...