Walking

A photo of an outdoor dining area with plants.

Transpo Notes: Café Streets Extended, Green Lake Outer Loop Advances, Metro Delays Service Improvements

This week’s Transpo Notes highlights include details on: Sound Transit's new ticket vending machines, the Green Lake Outer Loop project, transit service changes, Angle...

SDOT Adopts Policy Change to Allow More Marked Crosswalks Without Red Tape

For many years, the Seattle Department of Transportation's policy for justifying whether a crosswalk should be painted has been, counterintuitively, based on the number...

Bellevue Council Update: Some Lessons in Council Procedure

At Monday's Bellevue City Council meeting, Councilmembers voted to approve over $1.7 million in funding for crosswalk improvements, approved further work on a city-sponsored...
A photo of a trail with a cyclist riding on it next to a canal with a bench overlooking it and a bridge in the distance.

Seattle Street Ends: Fremont to the University Along Lake Union and Portage Bay

This article is the third in a series detailing Seattle Street Ends, or the hundreds of different places across the city where streets encounter...

State Should Invest $99 Million to Address SR-99’s Many Problems 

Highway 99 has 99 problems. Aurora Avenue is an unsettled mix, part street where people interact with businesses and part highway shunting vehicles through...

Bill Seeks to Allow Access to “Drive Thru Only” Businesses for Patrons Without Cars

Throughout the pandemic, stories of people who walk, bike, or roll getting turned away from Covid-19 testing sites because they were reserved for people...

The Urbanist Endorses the Transportation Bill of Rights

This past weekend while walking on California Avenue in West Seattle, I saw something that should be commonplace, yet remains relatively rare in our...

Overbuilding Highway Capacity is Robbing Seattle’s Industry

Build roads for freight, bikes, and transit, not peak cars Streets in Seattle’s industrial neighborhoods show massive disinvestment in the basic maintenance of curbs and...