Your Voice, Your Choice Wraps Up Second Year with 51 Project Selections
The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods has wrapped up a second year of its citywide participatory voting program, Your Voice Your Choice (YVYC), to select...
A Walkable Aurora Avenue
You’ve driven down Aurora, but have you ever walked it? Chances are, you haven’t. And nobody would blame you. The street is not designed...
Transit App Upgrades To 5.0
Transit App users will find that the aptly named mobile navigation app has graduated to version 5.0. The milestone version is noticeably different from...
Tacoma: Public Space and Public Life
In my last installment, I pointed out the importance of sidewalks—that they exist and that they are continuous—both because they provide an opportunity for...
Sound Transit Explores Options for Chinatown-International District and SoDo
Soon Seattle will find out what alternatives for the West Seattle and Ballard light rail extensions in Chinatown-International District and SoDo survive the alternatives...
The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar
The Urbanist has been banging the drum for following through on long-laid plans to build the Center City Connector to connect Seattle's two orphan...
SDOT Plan Proposes Deleting Key Crosswalk from Beacon Hill Safety Project
Around Seattle, a slate of street improvements that were approved nearly two years ago, in October of 2016, are being constructed. On Capitol Hill,...
Sunday Video: Let’s Make Mass Transit Free*
https://youtu.be/ccxVYborUcU
On City Beautiful, Dave Amos takes a look at the benefits for free public transit and why it should be expanded to more transit...