Natalie Bicknell Argerious

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Natalie Bicknell Argerious (she/her) is a reporter and podcast host at The Urbanist. She previously served as managing editor. A passionate urban explorer since childhood, she loves learning how to make cities more inclusive, vibrant, and environmentally resilient. You can often find her wandering around Seattle's Central District and Capitol Hill with her dogs and cat. Email her at natalie [at] theurbanist [dot] org.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is seeking community feedback through its SR-520 Online Open House. A series of community workshops will also run through Fall of 2019.
As project crews prepare to break ground this summer on the Montlake Project elements of Rest of the West, the continuation...
Ballard High Line: Not a Solution for the Burke-Gilman Trail’s Missing Link
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Despite ongoing legal woes, the City's current Preferred Alternative for completing the Burke-Gilman Trail remains the most feasible option for getting the job (finally) done.
On the surface it might appear to be an ingenious solution to a problem that has belabored Seattle politics for over three decades....
Less than a year after the opening of the SR-99 tunnel, tunnel mania seems to be spreading across Seattle. An unfunded billion dollar price tag has not scared off supporters of deluxe tunnel options for Sound Transit 3 alignments in both West Seattle and Ballard. Seattle Subway's newly released...
Seattle's City Council has unanimously voted to endorse the Seattle Green New Deal, which calls for the City to create and implement policies and programs that will "eliminate climate pollution by 2030, address historical and current injustices, and create thousands of good, green, well-paying, unionized jobs".
This sets Seattle...
The name “Electric Coffin” may not immediately inspire whimsy, levity, and brightness, but those are exactly the sentiments the art collective Electric Coffin is hoping to seed across Seattle through their exhibit, DISCOVER + DISRUPT at the Center for Architecture and Design on Western Avenue, currently on view through August...
For the First Time Ever, Crowdfunding Will Help Build Affordable Housing in Seattle
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Seattle-based Bellwether Housing has announced the launch of its Building Opportunity Fund, the nation's first crowdfunded impact investment that funds the development of affordable housing. From now until September of 2019, Bellwether hopes to crowdfund $4.5 million dollars of investments to support the construction of 750 units of affordable...
How Will Emerging Mobility Technologies Reshape Seattle’s Right-of-Way?
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Meet Veemo, an electric assist vehicle that advertises itself as "bike share meets car share." From a legal and technical standpoint, Veemo is an electric assist tricycle, or e-trike, but Veemo also includes an enclosure to shield riders from the elements that makes it resemble the tiny car super...
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has released its annual Active Transportation Safety Report, and the news from 2018 is not good. Between 2014 and 2018, pedestrian and cyclist deaths in traffic collisions rose 50%, jumping from 82 in 2014 to 123 in 2018.
Similar to the data compiled...