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.
Sound Transit is in the midst of its budget season when agency policymakers decide on priorities for next year and manage the agency's long-term...
Chicago sold its on-street paid parking spaces for a small proportion of their value for decades. The city, however, is reeling from that fundamental...
Two new daily roundtrips on Amtrak Cascades between Seattle and Portland will start on Monday, December 11. The extra trips will help fill out...
The Washington State Department of Commerce has released draft guidance and model codes to implement the state's a new middle housing law. The new...
With another "Future Ready" maintenance project coming down the pike in January, it raises a big question for the future: What should riders expect...
A lot of North American cities have made big strides to relegalize “middle housing” types. But the number of projects breaking ground in recent...
An agency report obtained by The Urbanist lays out three key scenarios to implement fare gates with the goal of driving up fare compliance...
Sound Transit is moving ahead on purchase of 10 more Link cars to buy back some system capacity being stretched and thinned out by...