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.
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...
Agency leaders argued simple fares are better, even if it meant much steeper fares for short trips.
Sound Transit is queuing up a major fare...
'Future Ready' repairs will disrupt light rail service from January 13 to February 4, but Sound Transit is trying a new strategy to reduce...
The fare structure for Link light rail ticketing could be headed toward changes, but data collected so far strongly indicates sticking to the distance-based...
On Thursday, the Sound Transit System Expansion Committee approved a contract to start project development work on two Seattle infill stations. The long-awaited Graham...