Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including Capitol Hill Seattle, BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Last week we outlined the different proposals to address the "congestion" crisis that our transportation agencies, in conjunction with the Downtown Seattle Association, are...
Note: the article below separates transit proposals in the One Center City recommendations from the bike lane proposals. I am devoting an entire article next...
Last year, when the Mayor Ed Murray announced that Neighborhood District Councils (NDCs) would no longer be City-funded vessels for public outreach, one of...
If a street in Seattle has "Way" in the title, you know that it's more likely than most streets to be heavily car-centric. Denny...
On Friday afternoon, staff at the Seattle Department of Transportation working on a plan to expand Seattle's bikeshare program and make it successful had...
With plans for most Downtown bike facilities on hold pending the results of the One Center City study, work creating safe connections is still...
While we've been deeply critical and reasonably skeptical about many aspects of the Viaduct replacement boondoggle, the best pieces of the flawed project to...
Transit agencies around North America are getting ready for travelers in their cities to ring in 2017 in classic fashion, by going out. In...