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Finding the Burke-Gilman Trail’s Missing Link

On Thursday night, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) hosted an open house on the alternatives for completing the unfinished part of the Burke-Gilman...

Map(s) of The Day: Historic Seattle Zoning

The Seattle City Clerk's website keeps an expansive online repository of historic zoning maps. I seem to always find myself perusing the 1923 maps in...

Driverless Technology: Still Not Ready For The Future City

It wasn't until the last two centuries that the advancement in mobility really took off globally. Before then, the mainstay of fast land-based mobility was the...

Licata Proposes Alternative Funding for Move Seattle Levy

Hours before a public hearing on the Transportation Levy to Move Seattle, Councilmember Nick Licata has released his alternative plan for funding the bold...

Transportation Levy to Move Seattle Legislation

Members of the Seattle City Council will meet today for a special ad hoc meeting of their Select Committee on Transportation Funding. Council members will...

SDOT Studying High Capacity Transit for the Roosevelt Corridor

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is studying options for transit improvements in the Roosevelt corridor between Downtown and Northgate. Although Sound Transit is...

Construction Zone Mobility: Room For Improvement

Seattle is a boom town. Until recently, traffic plans during new building construction disregarded the mobility of people walking and biking beside building sites....

Spot Fix: Put People First At Pike Place Market, Ban Cars

With nearly 100 years of urban activity for public trade and assembly, Pike Place Market is a mark of deep civic pride for Seattleites. The market...