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.
Ray Delahanty dives into how fast food drive-throughs work and why they aren’t so great for the built environment. Some cities have begun to address them, and even ban them.
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Sound Transit has expanded the scope for Everett Link to study alignments along SR 99 and I-5 in the South Everett area. For years, elected officials have tried to foist the Paine Field deviation, a 6.75-mile...
Reece Martin takes a dive into tram designs and shows the way for a better design approach for low-floor trams. Often, there are drawbacks in tram design for riders.
Ridership on Sounder's southern line has taken a huge hit since the pandemic started in 2020. Sound Transit moved to cut service down to the bone for a time on the S Line, which runs between Seattle and Lakewood. That likely depressed ridership even more than it otherwise would...
Jason Slaughter highlights how North American streets are designed as deadly spaces for people walking, rolling, and biking. Slaughter compares those streets to ones in The Netherlands, which have been dramatically improved over recent decades -- so much so that Slaughter has little fear in letting his children walk...
This Transpo Notes roundup touches on a mix of transit and bike stories, including:
An update on staffing levels a local transit agencies;Details on a forthcoming study of candidate RapidRide corridors;News on the opening of and equitable transit-oriented development in Roosevelt;An update on the Green Lake Outer Loop; andDetails on...
This Transpo Notes roundup touches on a mix of transit stories, including:
Leaky ceiling repairs underway at U District Station;New Fare Paid Zones coming to Downtown Seattle Link stations;Community Transit's soon-to-launch microtransit pilot; andShort- and long-term Sounder S Line service changes.
U District Station's leaky ceiling getting repairs
Work started this week...
On Wednesday, freight railroads had yet to come to terms with union workers, creating chaos across the United States as movement of goods and passengers began grinding to a halt. The companies had been refusing to fully meet the demands of well-meaning workers who could go on strike as...