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.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is prioritizing long overdue street improvements on West Marginal Way SW near the Duwamish tribe's Longhouse and Cultural...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is moving ahead with a 4th Avenue protected bike lane in Downtown Seattle, a project that had been...
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has finally unveiled her proposal for replacing Seattle's Transportation Benefit District, which currently funds a large segment of King County...
On Friday, when the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced its third set of streets open to people walking and rolling, calming them for...
One of the final things that safe cycling advocate Mike O'Brien did before exiting the Seattle City Council at the end of last year...
For decades, the pedestrian connections between Uptown and South Lake Union were limited, thanks to the design of Aurora Avenue--SR-99 to a motorist. North...
The National Hockey League's Seattle affiliate will announce today that they will be providing every single person who purchases a ticket to a hockey...
When the South Lake Union streetcar's station platforms were designed in the early 2000s, it was not imagined that streetcar stops along Westlake Avenue...