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.
At a Tuesday press conference at Horizon House on First Hill, Seattle City Councilmembers Tim Burgess and Mike O'Brien announced a proposal to lower speed...
One of the biggest stories of the year for neighborhood groups has been Ed Murray's dissolving of the District Neighborhood Councils. As we covered...
King County Metro Transit is about to unleash the last service change of 2016. Starting in 2017, Metro timetables and service changes will only...
This past weekend The Seattle Times broke the news that Motivate, the current operator of Pronto bike share, is right now coming in second place...
Seattle's Summer Parkways program started quietly in 2015. Modeled on a pretty popular Portland institution, the idea is to close city streets (for the...
A pedestrian network is really one of the most basic systems that allows a city to function—so basic that it's often taken for granted....
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has implemented a change on Pine Street this week that we first wrote about back in October. The...
The Puget Sound Regional Council has identified the projects for 2016 to be the recipients of federal dollars for transportation improvements. Many of these...