Ridehailing Fee and Megablock Proceeds Fund Infrastructure Boost in 2020 Budget
The Seattle City Council passed next year's budget Monday and added a flurry of amendments making the Mayor's budget more progressive and heed advocates...
What a City Needs: Anarchy at Slow Speeds (A Manifesto)
I live a few steps from the awkward intersection of Summit and Olive, where bus-related improvements shortened the crossing distance for pedestrians within the...
The Radical Promise of Vision Zero
In a few short months, Seattle will mark five years since the February day that its Mayor stood in front of advocates and staff...
Midweek Video: In Search of Effective Pedestrian Malls for U.S. Downtowns
https://youtu.be/-Tg9IMCKa5M
In the 1960s and 1970s, pedestrian malls were seen as a way to save struggling shopping districts in cities across America during the rise...
Thomas Street in South Lake Union To Get Traffic Diverter, Protected Intersection
Thomas Street in South Lake Union east of Seattle Center will get several substantive modifications by the end of 2019 to make the street...
New Data Shows Seattleites Are Ditching Their Cars for Bikes and Transit
Last Saturday Gene Balk, The Seattle Times FYI Guy, wrote a column describing how the latest data from the Census showed that car ownership...
Call to Action: Pass MASS Package, Fare Share, and Mosqueda’s Missing Middle Housing Budget...
The Seattle budget process is chugging along with another public comment session tomorrow Wednesday at 3:30pm. Soon Seattle City Council will be making their...
Electric Cars Are Not Enough: We Should Ban SUVs to Save Lives and Curb...
Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that growing customer preference for sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are leading to increased emissions. The gains in...