Sunday Video: How To Build A City Around Bikes Fast
https://youtu.be/h-I6HFQXquU
Bloomberg CityLab explains how cities can rebuild around bikes quickly for the Covid and post-Covid era and why it’s vitally important to do so....
Seattle Considers Thinking About One Day Accepting Permits to Maybe Open Streets to Dining
Seattle will permit restaurants and retail shops to open into traffic-less public streets one block at a time. Two months after the idea was...
Call to Action: Save Transit, Contact Seattle Council to Double STBD Funding
The Seattle City Council will decide the fate of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District (STBD) on July 27th. The Urbanist has partnered with Seattle...
Sunday Video: The Fight For America’s 51st State
https://youtu.be/bfUeekXbYzk
The fight to make Washington, D.C. a state has been a long one. But the idea has been consistently brushed aside. Why do people...
Transit Agencies Ask Feds for $36 Billion to Weather Covid Recession and Keep Projects...
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...
SDOT Inching Toward West Seattle Bridge Repair Plan
Four months into the West Seattle Bridge closure, we do have some answers but plenty of lingering questions, too. The Seattle Department of Transportation...
Monthly Meetup: The Urbanist to Host Katie Wilson of Transit Riders Union on July...
Please join us July 14th from 6:15pm to 7:30pm for our monthly online meetup featuring Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union! The call...
Sunday Video: The Fake Facades of Paris
https://youtu.be/iXSkjw0Kytk
In Paris, fake building facades are a surprisingly common urban feature to aesthetically hide certain infrastructure.