Civics and Culture

A long line of riders wait to board a Route 8 bus at Denny and Westlake. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

King County Considers Lessening Fare Evasion Penalties

Fare enforcement reform has been on the barometer for awhile now in the Puget Sound. Increasingly, it has become apparent that fare enforcement policies...

Africatown Designs Its Future: Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is here. When we live in an environment which is dominated by ideas...

Africatown Designs Its Future: Part 1

A year has passed since Africatown Community Land Trust acquired a twenty percent ownership stake of the land parcel at 23rd and Union in...

Seattle Is Wasting Another Opportunity For Social Housing

One would think, in the midst of a broad and deep housing crisis, that a nearly three-acre parcel in the heart of the city...

Sunday Video: East Link Tunnel Mining Completion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcMkQlUt5Q0 Sound Transit recently completed tunnel mining in Bellevue for the East Link light rail extension. The mining operation was fairly unique for the transit...

“Highly Connectible and Really Gangster”

“Merry Christmas, happy holidays, all that good stuff," I call out to my ragtag crew. We are the nighttime 7 and we’ve just boarded...

Sunday Video: How Seville Got Its Bicycle Network

https://youtu.be/rz20rAJ7oIg Streetfilms looks at how Seville, Spain got its bike network.

The Principled Gesture

There's a lot of time to think when you're driving a bus. There shouldn't be, what with the incredible amount of mental multitasking involved;...