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.
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...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced that a planned north-south bike connection in Beacon Hill is not scheduled to start construction until...
As the Seattle City Council gets ready to propose tweaks to Mayor Bruce Harrell's proposed Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) budget, at the top...
Many neighborhoods were left out and many unsafe, unhealthy streets remain.
Ever since Mayor Jenny Durkan announced in 2020 that 20 miles of the pandemic-created...
As the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) moves forward on construction of the extension of SR 167 to the Port of Tacoma in...
As traffic fatalities in Seattle follow a national upward trend, the Seattle Department of Transportation is under increasing pressure to make investments that improve...
Residents and visitors to Kirkland could see more marked crosswalks along with new and repaired sidewalks if a plan to adopt a new $20...
The work to modify roads in Washington State to make them accessible to people who walk or bike is an enormous undertaking. Most cities...