Stephen Fesler
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
Years of added delay and well over budget, Sound Transit's Stride bus rapid transit (BRT) program is now adding more stress on the larger Sound Transit 3 program. Agency boardmembers are still moving the program forward, but that didn't stop them from expressing a lot of concern and frustration...
What’s the secret sauce in creating urban spaces and places that people love? Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes gets into that in his latest video.
Light rail won't operate between SoDo and Capitol Hill on August 12 and 13, with a service gap bus bridge instead. A series of single-tracking disruptions will follow.
More planned service disruptions are coming to the Link light rail. On Thursday, Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm announced upcoming service disruptions...
Rollie Williams of Climate Town walks through the history of minimum parking laws and growth of parking in America with a few cameos from Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes. Williams highlights the many problems with such laws and the arbitrary nature of them.
Starved of vehicles and storage space, the full light rail expansion program is threatened with reduced service levels and quality. Another major reset is now in order to deliver the voter-approved Sound Transit 3 program.
Sound Transit service planners have detailed Link fleet constraints over the next 30 years,...
Amsterdam is marching toward becoming a car-free city. In their latest effort, the city government is trialing a six-week closure of Weesperstraat, the busiest street in the city, to cars. The car lobby is predictably mad about this knip, but is it achieving goals? Jason Slaughter of Not Just...
Sound Transit is advancing some service change proposals for next year. By and large, the proposals are similar to concepts that the agency shared in May. Changes being proposed are relatively modest given that agency partners are still struggling to maintain current service levels under a tough staffing environment.
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Community Transit is the first transit agency in Puget Sound to debut modern onboard digital signage for buses. The signage tracks the progression of buses along their routes and displays following stops with estimated arrival times. Right now, the agency is testing several screen types on select Swift buses...