Downtown Seattle Association Envisions A New Multimodal Third Avenue
Third Avenue is Seattle's most prominent surface transit corridor in the city with over 52,000 daily passengers using buses. The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA)...
Visions of a Green Future for Battery Street
Recharge the Battery is working hard to ensure that the Battery Street Tunnel sites are transformed into much needed green space for Belltown.
As the...
Sunday Video: Lid I-5—Big Ideas Make A Difference
https://youtu.be/dgJYWleJC84
In this short video, several public space experts and community leaders explain why the campaign to lid I-5 is an important opportunity for Seattle...
Seattle Releases Request for Proposals for Lid I-5 Feasibility Study
The City of Seattle is seeking a team of "highly experienced" consultants to undertake a year-long feasibility study.
2018 has been a big year for...
Lid I-5 Campaign Gains Momentum, High Profile Support
On November 2nd, Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien became the latest politician to formally endorse the campaign to build a freeway lid over Interstate...
Of Libraries, Parks, Book Stores, and Cinemas: Tacoma’s Social Infrastructre
In a previous installment, I wrote about the strain put on sidewalks when cities privatize, sell off, fail to maintain, or don’t care to...
Collaborative to Unveil Latest Lid I-5 Designs Tonight
After months of grassroots effort and volunteer engagement, The Central Hills Triangle Collaborative (CHTC) will present its conceptual designs for lidding I-5 in central Seattle...
New Documentary Tells the Story of Seattle’s Freeway Revolt
Documentary filmmaker and UW Bothell professor Minda Martin was a recent arrival to Seattle when she first stumbled by accident on the Ramps to...