Ryan Packer

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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.
On Monday March 28th, the first weekday of King County Metro's biggest service change in years, South Lake Union will see a pretty big increase in transit service. The South Lake Union Streetcar will be increased to 10-minute frequency from 7 am to 7 pm. RapidRide route C, with...
Though most major transportation improvements are funded from the top down, there are a number of funds that the Seattle Department of Transportation has created to allow the community to directly prioritize their own transportation improvements. These funds are mostly directed through the direction of the 13 Neighborhood District...
Bikeshare in Seattle is at a pivotal juncture — that much is clear to supporters and opponents of the Pronto bikeshare system alike. Without the intervention of the City Council, Pronto will not have enough capital to continue operating through March.
But I would like to lay out the case that...
Seattle's bike share system, Pronto, is in financial trouble. Later this afternoon, the City Council's Transportation and Sustainability Committee will vote on whether to send to full council an authorization to spend $1.4 million of the $5 million allocated in the City budget to expand the bike share system...
King County Metro (Metro) is working with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) on a plan to improve travel times and reliability for the Route 8. The plan focuses on a series of crucial chokepoints for the route along Denny Way. Metro is utilizing grants from the Federal Transit...
On Friday, the Seattle City Council's transportation committee voted to send the locally preferred alternative of the Madison bus rapid transit (BRT) project to a vote on the full council.
This locally preferred alternative (LPA) incorporates the decisions made by the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) after studying the engineering and geographical...
At approximately 11.00am yesterday, the first trip on the First Hill Streetcar departed its Pioneer Square station at Occidental Avenue & Jackson Street with Mayor Ed Murray, SDOT Director Scott Kubly, City Councilmembers Rob Johnson and Tim Burgess, and a few other Seattle notables on board.
Some of our tweets from yesterday as events were...
Last Monday, one of the first items that our brand new City Council voted on was a holdover matter from the previous council. This was a proposal to cede City right-of-way, otherwise known as a street vacation, on an alley in the Denny Triangle. The specific alley sits between Blanchard and...