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...
Angie Schmitt Plots a Way Out of the Pedestrian Safety Crisis
Longtime Streetsblog USA editor Angie Schmitt was in Seattle last week to talk about the pedestrian safety crisis. Schmitt stepped down from her Streetsblog...
Copenhagenize: A Conversation with Councilmember González
Councilmember Lorena González traveled to Copenhagen with a delegation of local leaders in August to study the policies and infrastructure that have given rise...
NE 43rd St Will Not Be a Pedestrian Street
After a long process around what the front door of Sound Transit's University District station on NE 43rd St will look like at the...