The Unfinished Promise of the Center City Connector
Pioneer Square has the most to potentially lose--but also gain--from the connection of Seattle’s downtown streetcar lines.
During her daily commute into Pioneer Square...
Tacoma: Getting To Know My New City Through Walking
I moved to Tacoma the last weekend of July. Even as I got keys to my apartment the day after I arrived, my stuff...
Everett Transit Delivers A Painful Restructuring Plan; It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Everett Transit is in the midst of a painful service restructuring planning process. Fresh off its long-range planning effort to develop a path to...
Sunday Video: An Urban Planner Plays SimCity
https://youtu.be/LUQaCoxybW8
In this extended short, Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the old school classic SimCity from the perspective of a professional planner 20...
Fall Service Changes Coming To Community Transit, Other Improvements On The Way
Community Transit intends to make several service changes in the fall and will soon open a new queue jump at a key chokepoint for...
Seattle Needs Streetcars
‘Streetcar’ seems to be a dirty word in Seattle. In January, I proposed my own redesign of NE 65th St to the city, which received...
King County Considers Lessening Fare Evasion Penalties
Fare enforcement reform has been on the barometer for awhile now in the Puget Sound. Increasingly, it has become apparent that fare enforcement policies...
It’s Time: Pike/Pine Protected Bike Lanes Will Transform Seattle’s Bike Network
Seattle's approach to building bicycle infrastructure often has the appearance of an earnest toddler desperately throwing spaghetti against the wall. That spaghetti isn't nothing--the...