Planning Safe Connections To South Downtown
With plans for most Downtown bike facilities on hold pending the results of the One Center City study, work creating safe connections is still...
The Beginnings Of A Post-Viaduct Aurora Ave N
While we've been deeply critical and reasonably skeptical about many aspects of the Viaduct replacement boondoggle, the best pieces of the flawed project to...
We Are Failing On New Year’s Eve Service
Transit agencies around North America are getting ready for travelers in their cities to ring in 2017 in classic fashion, by going out. In...
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...