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 BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
On Wednesday, conveniently after a Seattle Times article detailed how Sound Transit--or rather the Washington State Department of Licensing--values new and used cars to...
On Tuesday at Idris Mosque in North Seattle, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray drew a stark contrast between Seattle's approach to governance and the one...
Last week, we reported on Commute Seattle's survey of downtown commute modes, which is getting widely shared because it reports single occupant vehicle (SOV)...
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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...