Shaun Kuo
Shaun Kuo is a junior editor at The Urbanist and a recent graduate from the UW Tacoma Master of Arts in Community Planning. He is a urban planner at the Puget Sound Regional Council and a Seattle native that has lived in Wallingford, Northgate, and Lake Forest Park. He enjoys exploring the city by bus and foot.
Sound Transit has released its pandemic-impacted draft 2021 service plan. The pandemic has and continues to leave the agency with a fraction of its usual ridership, dropping from 160,000 on March 2nd to 22,000 on an average day in April. Ridership has been slowly returning, but the Sound Transit...
As a part of Seattle's voter-approved $930 million Move Seattle Levy, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been planning design updates to Routes 40 and 44. Both route updates have already gone through their first rounds of community surveys, and SDOT has been steadily adding bus lanes and...
As soon as September 14th, Sound Transit construction in Lynnwood will temporarily close two trails: the Interurban Trail and Scriber Creek Trail. The closure will last up to two years, intermittently in the case of the Interurban Trail.
The stretch of Interurban trail between 52nd Avenue South and 44th Avenue West...
Solar power dominates the urban renewable energy conversation, but wind can also generate a significant portion of cities' energy needs locally. Typically not associated with our cities, sprawling wind farms are the most common and efficient model for wind energy generation. Integrating wind into urban portfolios is challenging--towering horizontal...
Impatient for "The Big One," Pier 58 decided to follow the West Seattle Bridge's lead and started slipping in to the sound. Seattle Parks and Recreation was alerted to possible acceleration of the pier's deterioration when a waterline failure was reported on August 5th. The next day, Seattle Parks...
To meet growing visitation to Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Services (NPS) is pondering changes to the Nisqually to Paradise corridor. Between, 2008 and 2018 visitation increased by 30% and congestion along with it, which has worsened visitor experience and endangered park resources.
With new interventions, NPS is...
On Tuesday, King County Metro released its West Seattle Bridge Closure Transit Action Plan. The transit agency operates bus services, water taxis, and van-share in West Seattle.
The comprehensive plan was developed by Metro's West Seattle Bridge Response Team, in coordination with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and other...
Seattle Parks and Recreation's online open house has returned for the Green Lake Community Center/Pool redevelopment project, including the results of the previous open house. The selected and current site, adjacent to Green Lake's commercial core, received overwhelming support at 75%. None of the other sites even netted 10% of the votes.
The...