Shake’N’Bake III: Skip-Stopping and Newbies

This is a follow-up to a recent story on sleepers, newbies and working together. Click here for an addendum on sleepers; this follow-up is about newbie drivers and...

Holiday Video: How Big Can Cities Get?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJesS4zH2GI Davos Amos ask how big cities can get. Many megacities, largely defined as over 10 million people, are rapidly growing in industrialized countries. But...

Nathan Talks to Dave Ross

There wasn't even a pandemic happening when we had this conversation. How quaint. How fabulous. There was a pandemic during our shorter subsequent conversation, wherein we go over everyone's...
A Metro bus operating on a snowy Beacon Hill. (Owen Pickford)

Metro Previews Policy Updates for System Growth and Equity Focus

Updates to King County Metro's key policy documents have been delayed due to Covid-induced impacts, but the agency hopes to complete them this year...

50 parklets for PARK(ing) day, and we’re one of them

You read that right. This year, Seattle will host 50 parklets across the city, up from 46 from the previous. We're number 13 on the...

Sunday Video: How To Fix Our Unreliable Power Grid

https://youtu.be/5igJv_otlKE America’s power grid is increasingly more strained and unreliable as weather patterns and other environmental factors become more threatening. Vox explains how these challenges...

Apps Break Cities, Just Like Highways Do

On Tuesday, GrubHub sent New York restaurants into a tailspin with a free lunch promotion. Between 11am and 2pm, the food delivery app offered...

The Man Game And How To Beat It

For the sake of illustration, this is a monologue I wrote years ago. It was included as part of a piece in my 2013 solo...