Moving the Ballard Bridge Will Remake Northwest Seattle for the Better
Prepare for light rail, slow down Interbay, and save 15th Avenue
Imagine for a moment taking a pleasant walk from Ballard to Queen Anne. Coming...
As Statewide Traffic Safety Emergency Escalates, Seattle’s Vision Zero Department Charts New Path
In the final weeks of 2019, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) was facing down the fact that the city would end the year...
Seattle Needs a Truly Multimodal Snow Clearance Plan
Puget Sound cities cannot continue to neglect sidewalks, bus routes, bike lanes, and multimodal trails when winter storms hit.
Today King County Metro finally (mostly)...
Equity Analysis Favors Broader Home in Tacoma Rezone
Note: This article was updated on 1/4/22 to insert the correct map for City Council District 2.
Tacoma’s affordable housing initiative, Home in Tacoma,...
South Park Joins Growing Movement to Dismantle Freeways
From a bird’s eye view, Seattle’s South Park neighborhood is cut in half by SR-99, divided diagonally from one end to another. The highway,...
The Seattle Times Found Many Ways to Profit From Exclusion and Redlining
A short walk through the long history of discriminatory housing ads
It’s interesting to sift through historic print newspaper advertisements and get a glimpse of...
Workers Need Homes, So Why Isn’t Our Zoning Keeping Up With Job Growth?
When Bellevue boasted they would eat Seattle’s lunch last month, I am not sure they realized the housing crisis was on the full course...
Alternative Light Rail Alignments Into Downtown Tacoma: A Mapped Review
My initial Central Tacoma Link Extension (CTLE) surface alignment proposal stirred a large debate regarding how Link light rail should properly serve Tacoma over...