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.
Seattle's Participatory Budgeting program for parks and street projects, Your Voice, Your Choice, is back for its second year, with a funding increase for...
Beginning shortly after New Year's Day, the Seattle Department of Transportation will begin working on a new segment of the Center City Bike Network,...
The Seattle Department of Transportation earlier this month released its 2017 traffic report, which finalizes a year's worth of data from 2016 to provide...
The Seattle Department of Transportation's right-of-way improvement manual just got a big upgrade, and it's big news for street design nerds. The new version,...
On November 26th, volunteers with Seattle's most active street safety organization, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, criss-crossed the city, stopping at sites along our streets where...
As soon as Seattle's SR-99 tunnel opens in 2019, work will begin to de-highway-ify Aurora Ave N south of the tunnel portal in South...
Seattle privately-run bikeshare pilot is widely heralded: it's cheaper, shinier, and more widespread and flexible. There's just one catch. Besides being better than Pronto...
In April, I wrote about the failure to turn Seattle's high tech corridor in North Downtown away from being a car-centric office park and...