Walking

Sunday Video: Congestion Pricing Was Unpopular in Stockholm — Until People Saw It in...

https://vimeo.com/244771087 Congestion pricing in America is virtually non-existent, but there is talk of implementation in cities such as Portland, Seattle, and New York City. In...

Reconnected Thomas Street at Aurora to Get Traffic Diverter

As soon as Seattle's SR-99 tunnel opens in 2019, work will begin to de-highway-ify Aurora Ave N south of the tunnel portal in South...

Sunday Video: SR-520 Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail Opening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvgINBQQEQ The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will finally open a pedestrian and bicycle trail on SR-520 later this month, as highlighted in the...

Conflict Points: Fixing the Westlake Cycletrack Design

The recent Seattle Times article about conflicts on the Westlake promenade between people walking and people bicycling addressed some very real safety concerns, but...

Sunday Video: 7 Principles for Building Better Cities

Peter Calthorpe breaks down some scenarios for growth using as examples California and Chongqing, China in this TED talk from April. Calthorpe argues sprawl...

South Lake Union is for Pedestrians

In April, I wrote about the failure to turn Seattle's high tech corridor in North Downtown away from being a car-centric office park and...

What’s Next For Seattle’s Transportation Benefit District

The second year of the Seattle Transit Benefit District (STBD) showed very positive results delivering increasing ridership, more local bus service, and overall system...

Halloween Exposes the Benefits of Density

Every trick-or-treater is an urbanist on Halloween. Why leg it between spaced out suburban ramblers when you can find a street where the houses...