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.
Puget Sound bus networks are getting fall updates, with a major overhaul in store near Lynnwood Link stations and the new RapidRide G Line. King County Metro, Community Transit, and Sound Transit are rolling out changes on September 14.
Dave Amos of City Beautiful discusses non-motorized paths in the suburbs. Could these facilities provide more than just a recreational amenity to suburban neighborhoods? And how can they work best to offer suburban communities a sustainable and safe way to get around without a car? Amos discusses this and...
Fire departments rightly get high praise for fighting fires, rescuing people, and saving lives. But North American fire departments have been resistant to change when it comes to the vehicles they use and street design. As a consequence, they're getting people killed, Jason Slaughter at Not Just Bikes shows....
Across North America, people claim that they want affordable housing in their communities while deriding and fighting what they perceive as "luxury housing." A common trope among many is that developers are greedy, wanting only to make top dollar on their homebuilding projects and contribute nothing back to communities....
Dave Amos of City Beautiful recently made a trip to Tokyo and gushed about its quiet, urban streets. Tokyo’s wide arterials can leave an impression that cars dominate the city, but secondary and tertiary streets can be very calm and quiet in very dense urban spaces, as Amos shows....
Anyone who has ridden the TriMet's MAX light rail in Portland knows that it is undeniably slow through the city center. Recee Martin from RM Transit dives into how the system could be greatly improved for speed, reliability, frequency, and time competitiveness.
Metro Flex on-demand shuttle service is expanding to Delridge and South Park starting on Monday, July 22. The expansion is funded by $1.2 million in Seattle Transit Measure funds.
Community Transit is hosting an online open house through August 7 to narrow down options for the Swift Gold Line bus from Everett Station north to Marysville and Arlington.