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Highways

Meet Your New Montlake Boulevard

The new 520 bridge is now open to cars, but the Seattle side of the project is still a long way from completion. Pedestrians...

Sunday Video: Return To Hogan’s Alley

Vancouver, British Columbia is well known for its (almost) lack of highways in the center of its city. Vancouver is also well known for...

Western Avenue Is The Key To A Vibrant Waterfront

Now that Bertha is fully repaired, beefed up, and churning away in earnest, it’s becoming easier to contemplate the demise of the Viaduct. And...

Sunday Video: How Highways Wrecked American Cities

Vox charts more than a half-century of highway building across America in under five minutes. The video dives into how American road building was...

Introducing The Bainbridge-Bellevue Freeway: Bridge To Somewhere

With the state government so gungho about new highway construction we might as well build more of them whether they make sense or not....

A Once In Lifetime Opportunity: Walking, Biking, And Dancing On SR-520

It's not often that a highway department invites people to walk, bike, and dance freely on their roads, but this weekend is your rare opportunity. The Washington...

Are Washington State’s Highway Expansion Plans A Good Investment?

This article originally appeared as a special piece on Strong Towns, which is in the midst of #NoNewRoads week and dedicated Thursday to Washington...

FAST Act Makes Slow Progress

The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...