Streetcar Coming to Downtown Seattle Streets, Construction Starts In January
The long-awaited Center City Connector is finally moving forward to construction. The 1.25-mile streetcar project in Downtown Seattle will get underway in January with early...
The Urbanist’s Greatest Hits Of 2016
Another year, another great list of articles from our writers at The Urbanist. Here are our top ten articles from 2016 based on readership....
Best Bike Infrastructure Of 2016: The Sidewalk
People for Bikes recently announced the results of their nationwide review of all of the new bike infrastructure that opened in 2016, with the...
Everett Is Developing A Bold Downtown Area Plan
The City of Everett is working through a major downtown area masterplanning effort dubbed "Metro Everett". The plan is taking a broad look at...
The Urbanist Christmas Wish List For Seattle
On Tuesday we sardonically noted that Seattle had gotten itself a new youth jail for Christmas (real festive!) in a headline. That got us...
Sound Transit Scores Another TIFIA Loan Totaling $1.99 Billion
Sound Transit announced that another Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) master loan agreement has been signed with the United States Department of Transportation....
Seattle’s Pedestrian Master Plan Is Short On Concrete Goals
Walking in Seattle is the fastest-growing commute method citywide right now. As I will take every chance I can get to mention, Josh Feit at...
Transit App’s Crowdsourced Real-Time Arrival Data May Soon Come To Seattle
Transit App is making another leap forward in the world of real-time arrival information. The software already plugs into real-time transit data where available,...