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.
Shoreline is planning a modest investment in bike facilities for 2017. At an open house tonight, the city will unveil proposals to lay down...
As part of the ongoing work around the creation of Seattle City Light's $300 million substation at Denny Way and Minor Ave N, closures...
Today, Councilmember Debora Juarez will likely introduce a bill to the City Council, cosponsored by Councilmembers Harrell, Burgess, and O'Brien, that will request that the Washington...
Earlier this year, Senator Maria Cantwell announced that the largest grant ever awarded to the state of Washington would be going to a Seattle...
Night owl service in Seattle and places further afield is on the verge of major improvements. In April, we provided a brief on a review...
With little fanfare, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has quietly delineated some lanes on Fourth Avenue to allow transit to move more freely....
One of the main points made by the anti-movement in the lead up to last year's vote on a Seattle-specific transportation levy, the nine-year Levy to...
The saga continues with the Shoreline subarea planning process for the area around the future 145th Street Link Station, which is expected to open...