Transit App Update: Now With Rails Lines And Stops
Transit App software engineers continue to improve the quality of their popular transit trip planning app service. Last month, the company pushed out a highly...
Why I’m An Urbanist
When I was four years old, I wrote a letter to Mother Nature. Signed, sealed, and delivered to the boulder in our suburban front...
An Open Letter To Elon Musk
Dear Mr. Musk,
This letter is both a salute to your continued success and a challenge to consider (if you haven’t already) some ideas that...
Driverless Technology Can Bring A Golden Age Of Mass Transit
Not another day goes by without some transit detractor talking about how driverless vehicles will obviate the need for transit and big spending on...
How Seattle Might Regulate Short-Term Vacation Rentals
Short-term vacation rentals have become an increasingly prominent feature of the urban environment in Seattle. Just three years ago, there were only a couple hundred Airbnb...
Vision Zero Is About Road Design
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been on a marketing blitz lately promoting Vision Zero. There have been Facebook ads, web videos, and...
Why Municipal Broadband
In light of the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decisions on Net Neutrality and the ending of restrictions on local governments offering Internet services...
Urban Hubs Need A CLT Boost
This is the second in a two-part series on cross-laminated timber; read the first here.
I've proposed creating a cross-laminated timber (CLT) bonus by adding 35...