Yearly Archives: 2024

Light rail is finally arriving in Shoreline and South Snohomish County. Local governments have been working toward this day for a long time.

Ahead of Friday's launch of the northward light rail extension, take a tour of the Lynnwood City Center Station.

While the Seattle City Council has recently stifled opportunity for public participation and dissent, Seattle Public Schools is even further along, having already adopted many of the same undemocratic practices now seen at City Hall.

More than 1,800 homes are under construction, recently completed, or planned near Mountlake Terrace Station, where light rail service will soon commence.

The idea of allowing denser housing near transit is drawing substantial opposition in Kirkland, including lawn signs. However, the proposed Comprehensive Plan language is barely a proposal yet.

Three years after the Seattle City Council tasked the department of construction with examining how to reform its cumbersome design review process, the agency released its report. The department still remains nearly a year away from making substantive changes to design review.

The yearslong project to transform the area around SR 520 in Montlake is finally set to open this fall, including several exciting bike and pedestrian facilities.

This week, Ray Delahanty of City Nerd laid out the case for a high-speed Maglev train line between Washington D.C. and Boston, which could...