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.
On Friday afternoon, staff at the Seattle Department of Transportation working on a plan to expand Seattle's bikeshare program and make it successful had...
With plans for most Downtown bike facilities on hold pending the results of the One Center City study, work creating safe connections is still...
While we've been deeply critical and reasonably skeptical about many aspects of the Viaduct replacement boondoggle, the best pieces of the flawed project to...
Transit agencies around North America are getting ready for travelers in their cities to ring in 2017 in classic fashion, by going out. In...
People for Bikes recently announced the results of their nationwide review of all of the new bike infrastructure that opened in 2016, with the...
Walking in Seattle is the fastest-growing commute method citywide right now. As I will take every chance I can get to mention, Josh Feit at...
In 2011, the Seattle City Council reached what was, at the time, perceived as a compromise on height limits in Pioneer Square. Councilmember Tim...
Sound Transit's Capitol Hill station marks a crucial turning point for the agency. The fruit of years of advocates pressing the agency to more...