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.
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...
Here at The Urbanist we thoroughly enjoyed the Seattle Design Festival, which stretched from September 10th to the 23rd. We highlighted women currently working...
Earlier this month at the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board, two employees of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Monica DeWald and Chris Svolopoulos, presented...
On Wednesday, Pronto Cycle Share announced at the last minute that they were relocating two stations immediately. Word had been filtering down through various...
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...