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 plans a mix of articulated and double-decker buses for Stride, all of which will be battery-electric.
Sound Transit is poised to move forward...
In 2016, a regional transit expansion measure, Sound Transit 3, comfortably passed with the strongest support in Seattle. Seven years on, planning is still...
Years of added delay and well over budget, Sound Transit's Stride bus rapid transit (BRT) program is now adding more stress on the larger...
What’s the secret sauce in creating urban spaces and places that people love? Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes gets into that in his...
Light rail won't operate between SoDo and Capitol Hill on August 12 and 13, with a service gap bus bridge instead. A series of...
Rollie Williams of Climate Town walks through the history of minimum parking laws and growth of parking in America with a few cameos from...
Starved of vehicles and storage space, the full light rail expansion program is threatened with reduced service levels and quality. Another major reset is...
Amsterdam is marching toward becoming a car-free city. In their latest effort, the city government is trialing a six-week closure of Weesperstraat, the busiest...