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.
The Metropolitan King County Council is getting serious about climate change. Yesterday, the Council announced that it had come up with a brand new set of policies to curb carbon emissions. The policies will direct two County departments to become carbon neutral, create a new carbon offset program, and allow others...
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Eclipse the Bus Riding Dog’s Day Off in Seattle by King County DOT on YouTube.
Seattle's most favorite bus-riding dog is also a huge fan of the Seahawks! Go Hawks!
Parking drama: SDOT completely debunks the perceived need of Sen. Bob Hasegawa's (D-Beacon Hill) tax on Sound Transit around light rail stations. If you're not familiar with the issue, the Senator wants Sound Transit to compensate car owners for their Residential Parking Permits.
Trolling Bertha: Republicans came up with a...
The Transit App just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, software engineers behind the app enthusiastically announced the roll out of a new transportation service to the app with the introduction of Car2Go. As a carshare service, Car2Go has become wildly popular with over 59,000 registered users in the Seattle area. Naturally, the...
In an extraordinary announcement, Sound Transit revealed that the agency will receive $1.3 billion in Federal loans from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT). The loans come from the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), which provides incredibly favorable interest rates to transportation agencies across the United States. Sound...
A symbiotic relationship: A look at how food trucks and taprooms go hand-in-hand.
Lipstick on a pig: The Washington State Department of Transportation have released their final designs for SR-520 through Seattle; the plan is still universally awful for pedestrians, transit, and bicyclists. You still have an opportunity to comment.
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Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change by the UW College of Built Environments on Livestream.
A lively panel discussion on how Detroit transforms and innovates from the grassroots.
Construction on the University District Station has been well underway since December 2013. As part of site preparation and equipment storage to construct the station box, Sound Transit's contractors have had to repeatedly change pathways for pedestrians and cyclists while closing streets to motorists. One key closure has been at...