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Ideas in Open Streets: Bothell, W.A.

Bothell has opened up its Main Street for retail and restaurants in the age of social distancing. For a block of the city’s traditional...
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More Ways Than One

Downtown Seattle is more than a central business district. It is a neighborhood 88,000 people call home. This neighborhood has the highest concentration of...
Route 40 briefly uses Market Street to connect to 24th Avenue NW, sharing a stop with Route 44. (Photo by author)

Seattle Planning Scaled Back Benefit District Transit Boost, with Car Tabs Blocked

Transportation funding is in serious peril due to a perfect storm, but there could be help on the horizon. The storm started in November...

Sunday Video: Should Cities Keep Open Streets After The Pandemic?

https://youtu.be/WWRBnDNbAR4 Dave Amos argues why open streets being rolled out during the pandemic should be made permanent.
teal streetcar in Pioneer Square with Smith Tower and other buildings

SDOT Budget Cuts Miss the Point

On Wednesday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced a series of “paused” transportation projects to respond to the economic fallout from the Covid...

SDOT Announces Four More Miles of Open Streets Plus Lake Washington Boulevard Pilot

Yesterday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced another expansion of its open streets program, adding pedestrian and cycling priority on neighborhood streets. Joining...
Lime-owned red Jump bikes in Ballard drop-off zone. (Courtesy of Lime)

Lime Relaunches Bikeshare in Seattle with 500 Jump Bikes

Today Lime Bikes announced it had relaunched bikeshare with about 500 bikes, making Seattle the second city where Lime has relaunched bikes. The bikes...

Soft Opening for a Hard Won Trail

It’s been forty years since the first segments of the Burke-Gilman Trail opened, replacing parts of Seattle’s railway infrastructure with bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares....