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 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...
In 2008, Seattle transportation officials made a tough decision: divert money that was previously allocated for a major corridor improvement project to another area...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has started taking feedback on the RapidRide H line, which will travel from Downtown Seattle to West Seattle...
This week, in an online open house, the Seattle Department of Transportation is presenting the latest update to the plans for the $120 million...
Last month we wrote about a new process that the Department of Neighborhoods (DoN) is engaging in to allocate neighborhood grants focused on street &...