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.
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...
One of the biggest questions swirling around the new $1.6 billion expansion of the Washington State Convention center--apart from whether it will actually get...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is hitting its stride lately on making progress toward its goal of constructing a full bike network composed...