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.
For the past two years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has attempted to try out an idea that works well in high-volume pedestrian-oriented...
In the new book Drawdown, editor Paul Hawken, an environmentalist and author, lays out 80 solutions to reverse global warming by 2050: modest, attainable goals to...
Seattle, we need to talk. It's undeniable that we are creating the model for an urban high-tech corridor that eschews the inefficient sprawl that...
The repaving schedule for arterial streets in Seattle didn't used to register on the radar of urbanists and safe streets activists. The Seattle Department of...
The Washington State House, fresh from delivering a significant flesh wound to Sound Transit's taxing authority last week, turned its attention this week to...
A long-planned project is approaching its final steps before being ready to start construction on a long-dormant site on Denny Way, but first the...
When the latest designs for Madison Street's BRT line were released in March, street safety advocates were dismayed at how the bike and pedestrian...
Today marks an unusual day in Seattle: we are shutting down an entire mode of transportation. Two and a half years after Pronto! Cycle...