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.
Tactical Urbanism's biggest holiday in Seattle, PARK(ing) Day, expands into a weekend day this year for the first time. This is huge news as...
In this week's installment of City Ticker, we are taking a look at a number of recent studies that have come across our desks...
On Wednesday, the Seattle City Council's Gender Equity, Safe Communities, and New Americans Committee heard from Seattle Police Department (SPD) and staff from other...
This summer both Portland and Vancouver, B.C. follow on Seattle's heels in launching a citywide bikeshare program. Oddly enough, they both ended up rolling...
During this week last year, the entire city was talking about the leaked proposal from the HALA committee that proposed eliminating all single family...
The new 520 bridge is now open to cars, but the Seattle side of the project is still a long way from completion. Pedestrians...
The alternative routes for the missing link of the Burke-Gilman trail through Ballard are now in the public comment and outreach phase.
A lot of...
Almost all transit advocates are in agreement that the proposal that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) unveiled in late June for improvements to...