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.
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Apprentis urbanistes d'un jour! by Acces Transports on Youtube.School children in Québec, Canada have some fun and design a play street for themselves, then they put their plan to work! Can we say woonerf?
Fun for the whole family: Wonder what biking in Vancouver, BC is like? Sightline has a great photo essay on how wonderful it is to bike around the city.
Real-time arrival arriving: SDOT plans to install a bunch of real-time arrival displays along Route 44 (UW-Ballard).
Dubai of the Balkans: Belgrade, Serbia wants...
Who knew you could make beauty out of tweets? Data and map guru Eric Fischer recently released a series of maps via Mapbox called "Locals & Tourists". The interactive map allow users to search for their favorite places around the globe to see what areas are popular with the locals...
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Brenda is kicking butt on the deep bore tunnel trail. Yesterday, the tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutterhead broke through the station box wall at Roosevelt Station. Last year, Brenda began boring work in July to make the 1.5-mile journey south from its original launch point at the Maple Leaf...
The Transit App gave the Puget Sound a very quiet, but welcome update last week. The long-awaited—and constantly requested—integration of scheduled data for Community Transit was finally dropped into the app service. You won’t see any real-time data for Community Transit buses just yet, but you can find out when the next...
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Coyotes by Modest Mouse on Youtube.
Filmed in Portland, this video is basically one big tribute to the city and Trimet, the local transit authority. Plus, the tunes are great!
Bike lane biz: The full business case for making bike lanes by taking over parking spaces.
Ch-ch-changes: The STB continues their look at potential Metro bus changes for light rail with Capitol Hill and First Hill, SR-520/Crosslake, and Downtown/SLU/Uptown.
Street safety: West Seattle will get safety changes on SW 35th Ave, but...
Take a walk along Campus Parkway in the University District day or night, and you'll see a very well traveled street. While light on private car traffic, it's busy with the constant churning of buses and people walking and biking. The east-west nature of the street lends itself to a...