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...
Improving the Grid in Capitol Hill
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Over the past few years, the southern section of Manhattan's Broadway has steadily transformed from a major vehicle arterial into a...
Pedestrian Retail Areas
Great cities have active pedestrian-oriented retail areas, and Seattle has many. Could we use more? I think so, and Seattle Department of Planning and...
The Bigger Picture of Viaduct Traffic
This past week saw a new plot twist in the Bertha tragicomedy: vehicle traffic is way down on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, from 110,000...
Your Housing Is More Expensive If You Have To Own A Car. Here’s How...
One of the biggest pleasures I get out of living in a city is that I don't have to own a car. Cars can...
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...
Let’s Make a Better Pike/Pine
Sure, that's a pretty picture, but let's face it: Pike/Pine as a corridor sucks. Yeah, there's a lot of lovely buildings and kitschy businesses...
Bike Lanes Are Social Justice
Last week, Michael Andersen at People for Bikes posted new data based on the most recent Census that shows the poorest Americans are twice...