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...
Sound Transit Allocates $40 Million for System Access Projects
Last week, the Sound Transit Board of Directors selected 32 system access projects that will receive grants as part of the first round of...
Council Tackles the Right to Sidewalk Access
In the summer of 2017, every single sidewalk in Seattle was visited by a team of interns and assessed: 2,300 miles of sidewalk were...
Washington Should Act to Stem Pedestrian Fatalities with $58 Million from Feds
Every fall, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) traditionally allocates unspent highway funding among all the states. In late August, the FHWA announced that the...
Mercer Megablock Proceeds Should Fulfill Broken Transportation Promises
Last Friday, the largest land deal for the City in decades moved out of committee, on its way to sure approval at next Monday's...
Councilmember Mosqueda Proposes Capitol Hill Location for First Pedestrian Superblock
Yesterday, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog broke the story that Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda has a spot in mind to introduce 'superilles'--or pedestrian superblocks modeled off...