Stephen Fesler
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
On Friday, Community Transit released three different options to extend its successful Swift Blue Line to the future Link light rail station at NE...
https://youtu.be/Rsend-1FbaM
Bloomberg News asks if Americans are ready to love passenger rail again. The story is heavily focused on Brightline in Florida and Amtrak’s recent...
Water rights: According to Crosscut, state legislators want to protect water rights in Washington from Wall Street speculation.
Ban Hummers: Streetsblog did a third-part series...
Washington Democrats have dueling transportation funding bills pending in the upper and lower houses that would raise or protect transportation revenue.
On Wednesday, Senator Liz...
Sea-Tac International Airport broke the 50 million passenger mark last year for the first time. A total of 51,829,239 passengers passed through the airport...
https://vimeo.com/379854529
Officials from Ghent talk about how their circulation plan helped transform the city to a higher walking and biking mode share in a very...
Disconnected: According to a new study, streets across the globe are becoming less connected.
Curbing sprawl: An Arizona bill would block rural-to-urban water rights transfers...
On Thursday, King County officials announced that new battery-electric buses would be hitting the streets late next year. The county is purchasing a total...