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 hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship.
Joining 25 other transit agencies from...
More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took...
Service on the Amtrak Cascades corridor is likely to remain reduced for quite some time. One daily roundtrip between Seattle and Eugene will continue...
Washington eviction wave: A large wave of evictions are likely in much of Washington next month if existing state moratoriums expire.
Pipes blocked: Two major pipeline...
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In Paris, fake building facades are a surprisingly common urban feature to aesthetically hide certain infrastructure.
Washington's state transportation department is launching a temporary program that will make some lower-speed highways available to open streets and commercial uses during the...
New population numbers for 2020 from the Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) show that Seattle has surpassed 761,100 residents while the four-county...
Travel banned: The European Union will continue to bar Americans from entering due to the uncontrolled pandemic at home ($). Mexico has also closed the...