Things I’ve Learned From the 358
"Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your...
Exploding Oil Trains Currently Run Through Downtown Seattle
Two months ago in Casselton, North Dakota, a train carrying crude oil from the Bakken oil fields hit a derailed soybean train on the...
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...