Politics and Government

Exploding Oil Trains Currently Run Through Downtown Seattle

Two months ago in Casselton, North Dakota, a train carrying crude oil from the Bakken oil fields hit a derailed soybean train on the...

How Does Sound Transit Expand?

  Sound Transit, the regional transit agency that builds Link and Sounder rail services and operates a lot of our express buses, is currently updating...

To Achieve Mayor Murray’s Goal, Stop Tunneling

Yesterday, in Mayor Murray's first state of the city speech, he touts downtown's low single occupancy mode share (page 10) - fewer than half of...

Why Urbanism?

Sometimes, when having conversations with fellow environmentalists, I find a disconnect in our understanding of urbanization. In the past, cities were regarded as dirty,...

Notes From The January 14th Community Meeting

If you missed the community meeting at Lowell Elementary chances are you saw fewer angry people yelling at city administrators than me. The meeting was...

Meeting Tonight, Monday January 13th in Ballard For Feedback On Development

The Department of Planning and Development is holding an initial meeting to take community feedback on development at 1436 NW 62nd St. This development will...

Seattle Housing Reading List – January 12

Fortunately, we aren’t the only ones writing about housing issues. Here’s what we’ve read recently: The Sightline Institute showing how parking drives up the cost...

Seattle’s Free Parking Creates A Housing Cost Problem

How can it be a problem if something is free? It turns out, free and subsidized parking is a problem because it is often only...