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.
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...
Sound Transit is advancing some service change proposals for next year. By and large, the proposals are similar to concepts that the agency shared...
Community Transit is the first transit agency in Puget Sound to debut modern onboard digital signage for buses. The signage tracks the progression of...
Traffic camera enforcement technology isn’t popular among motorists, but there’s a lot of upsides to camera enforcement of traffic regulations, such as speed limits....
Alignment and station alternatives to be studied for the Everett Link light rail extension have been set. In June, the Sound Transit board adopted...
North American cities are known for their wide, gridded streets which stand in stark contrast to European city streets that tend to be narrower...
There's a segment of Americans and Canadians that like to say that good urbanism can't be replicated in North American cities because their countries...