Ray Dubicki
Ray Dubicki is a stay-at-home dad and parent-on-call for taking care of general school and neighborhood tasks around Ballard. This lets him see how urbanism works (or doesn’t) during the hours most people are locked in their office. He is an attorney and urbanist by training, with soup-to-nuts planning experience from code enforcement to university development to writing zoning ordinances. He enjoys using PowerPoint, but only because it’s no longer a weekly obligation.
An we come upon the last day of the year, a perfect opportunity to look through The Urbanist's media archive for a retrospective of the year in snippets. There's the topics we covered from the legislature through the budget. But a smart eye can also catch the empty trees...
Transit systems in the Puget Sound region will once again offer fare-free New Years Eve rides. The exception in Pierce Transit, which is charging fares this New Years Eve. Holiday revelers are encouraged to avoid traffic and intoxicated driving by getting on the bus or light rail.
“Whether you’re...
"And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day."
For the quarter of humanity celebrating a holiday in this hemisphere of the globe pointed away from the sun, don't forget your Vitamin D today. It is hopefully a good and welcome morning to you and yours.
Fairytale of New York is...
Once again at the darkest part of the year, we gather in the spirit of Krampus, the Christmas demon who takes bad children into the woods and eats them. Even the most festive of holidays needs a little horror, and what’s more terrifying than looking into 2023?
So here’s eight...
Looking around North America, it appears that cities hit a certain size and get rewarded with a catalogue of light rails to choose from. Not so much metros or BRT, but a a very specific looking and operating tram system. That is not the case elsewhere. RM Transit takes...
In this week's episode, Ray Dubicki tracks the last few weeks of Seattle City Council meetings to listen in as a fairly small amendment is made to the city's comprehensive plan. It takes a lot of talking and hearings to get a preference for highway lids written into the...
Highway Lids, Design Review Waivers for Affordable Housing, Continuing Streateries, and Easing Food Truck Restrictions
In its final full meeting of 2022, the Seattle City Council passed a series of measures that could go far in making the city more habitable, affordable, and lively. Councilmember Dan Strauss (District 6) received...
The wonderful and extensively traveled Tom Scott was in Vancouver to talk about the University of British Columbia's Rabbit Line, a 2.5 km pipeline across UBC's campus. A mechanism uses air pressure to fire an aluminum capsule at 100km/hr to deliver short-lived radioactive isotopes from the university's cyclotron to...