Walking

Pike People Street Returns In 2017

For the past two years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has attempted to try out an idea that works well in high-volume pedestrian-oriented...

Seattle Can Be A More Walkable City

In the new book Drawdown, editor Paul Hawken, an environmentalist and author, lays out 80 solutions to reverse global warming by 2050: modest, attainable goals to...

Sunday Video: Autonomous Vehicles

Earlier this year, Jeff Speck, urban planner and author of Walkable City, gave a presentation to American mayors on the topic of autonomous cars....
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Nominate Seattle’s Worst Intersection: 2017

This is the fifth year of our annual tradition of selecting the worst intersection in Seattle and the selection process starts with you. What do...

Spot Fix: Bagley Ave N And N 40th St

A Wallingford intersection on N 40th St was selected for improvements in 2017 by the Levy to Move Seattle Oversight Committee under the Neigborhood...

Pedestrian Bridges Will Not Solve the Mercer Mess

On Thursday, Ryan Packer wrote that "South Lake Union Is For Cars" based on the Seattle Department of Transportation's (SDOT) rather Sisyphean efforts to...

Press SDOT For Multimodal Design On 2019 Repaving Projects

The repaving schedule for arterial streets in Seattle didn't used to register on the radar of urbanists and safe streets activists. The Seattle Department of...

Sunday Video: Oslo’s Journey To A Car-Free City Center

Streefilms shares the journey of Oslo transitioning toward a car-free city center by 2019. The goal of the changes is to make walking, biking,...