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 not only seriously upping their graphics game; they’re also planning to deliver the biggest expansion of transit service seen in years...
At a crossroads: Next City walks us through the affordable housing crisis in Seattle and the promise of HALA.
Tiny skyscrapers: New York City continues with...
North Seattle has a bunch of new real-time arrival signs (RTIS) and many of them are now live. Way back in August, I reported...
For many parents, getting their children to and from school safely is an issue of deep concern. Now parents have a new tool at...
No hands: China rolls out the first driverless bus.
Car-Free Europe: Oslo is going big to ban cars from the city center within four years....
Community Transit continues to look at ways to improve speed and reliability of commuter routes. Coming on the heels of a new policy that...
Walking is getting a lot of attention in Seattle recently, and unsurprisingly, much of that has to do with rapid growth and changing expectations...
Seattle is going all in on Vision Zero, the City's campaign to eliminate serious injury and traffic deaths on City streets by 2030, with...