Lessons Learned on the 5

I'll leave it to those around me to conclude whether or not I'm the same person I was eight years ago, when I started...

Sunday Video: Busiest Dutch Bicycle Path

https://youtu.be/2RQrKP9a0XE Utrecht gets to claim its Vrendenburg street as the busiest bicycle path in the Netherlands. The street provides a primary path to the city...

Wishing You the Best of Holidays

We hope that the holidays are finding you well, especially on this Christmas Day. Wherever you are, we hope that you are enjoying time...

Neighbors Call Shenanigans on Wallingford Community Council’s “Democratic” Process

Last year members of the Wallingford Community Council (WCC) threw a mock funeral for the "neighborhood voice" at the Seattle Office of Planning and...

Nathan Vass Author Event

​Tuesday, January 15, 7pm. Elliott Bay Bookstore. Free. Details and directions here. Did you miss my book launch? Probably not, since there were a million people there......

In the Before

My favorite part of the 5 is the slight right onto northbound Fremont Avenue. You’ve just come all the way from West Seattle, through...
Time Square is a good place to avoid pandemic or no. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

Don’t Blame Density for Pandemics

If you're a newspaper columnist or governor of New York, a pandemic is a great time to trot out medieval myths, repackage them like...

I Am Now Two Years Old

  Two years ago I posted the first of these stories, which now number in the hundreds and stem from seven years of bus driving. The...