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 Capitol Hill Seattle, BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
When State Senator Joe Nguyen was student body president of his class at Seattle University, he organized a meeting around the subject of providing...
The Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway is the longest continuous greenway in Seattle, running over five miles from Rainier Beach to Mount Baker. Completed in...
Last Friday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) held a closed-door meeting with members of the Bicycle and Freight Advisory Boards to discuss a...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been pretty busy lately, working to catch up on projects that weren't able to happen in 2020...
The conditions of the West Seattle high- and low-bridge, the Magnolia Bridge, and other high-profile bridges that carry vehicle traffic have been getting a...
For more than 20 years, residents of Georgetown and South Park have been advocating for a safer way to travel between the two neighborhoods....
With construction on the complete rebuild (and expansion) of Alaskan Way well underway, the long-planned new Seattle waterfront is happening before our eyes. Traffic...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced plans to implement a new kind of pedestrian improvement that other cities have begun to add...