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.
In 2015, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) rechannelized a two-mile stretch of 35th Ave SW in West Seattle from SW Roxbury St near...
As King County Metro, in coordination with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), begins its outreach on a planned RapidRide line to replace the...
Just a few years ago, the Seattle Mayor's Office, eying a confluence of construction events getting scheduled downtown and an uncertain timeline for buses...
In Green Lake and Wallingford, design for a series of related paving and safety redesign projects is moving forward. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)...
Just before 10am on a recent Sunday morning, around 30 people gathered outside Cafe Javasti, a neighborhood coffee shop just north of NE 85th...
It looks like the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is about to apply the brakes to Seattle Department of Transportation's car funnel that...
Even before Summit Slope Park opened in late 2010, advocates were looking beyond the borders of the park's lot to the narrow stretch of...
Seattle's center city neighborhoods are adding jobs at an astounding rate but Seattle's streets downtown aren't getting wider. Something has to change, and the...