State Should Invest $99 Million to Address SR-99’s Many Problems
Highway 99 has 99 problems. Aurora Avenue is an unsettled mix, part street where people interact with businesses and part highway shunting vehicles through...
SR-99 Tunnel Threatens South Lake Union’s Light Rail Future
Boosters of the SR-99 tunnel replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct promised transit improvements to Seattle voters, hoping to win their favor. It turns out,...
Overbuilding Highway Capacity is Robbing Seattle’s Industry
Build roads for freight, bikes, and transit, not peak cars
Streets in Seattle’s industrial neighborhoods show massive disinvestment in the basic maintenance of curbs and...
Draft Regional Transportation Plan Glosses Over Harmful Roadway Expansion
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has released a draft of the latest update to the central Puget Sound's regional transportation plan. Required to...
Sunday Video: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Induced Demand and Road Widening
CityNerd walks through the very wonky topics of induced demand (or better described as "induced traffic") and the methods for justifying road widening projects....
Inslee’s Proposed 2022 Budget Plugs Holes in Highway Megaprojects
As Governor Jay Inslee proposes a dramatic increase in state subsidies for electric vehicles in Washington State in his supplemental 2022 budget update, his...
Meetup Video: December 2021 with Dongho Chang
Dongho Chang joined as The Urbanist's December guest speaker. Chang spent nine years as City Traffic Engineer at the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT),...
Inslee’s Proposes $7,500 Electric Car Rebate and $1,000 E-Bike Rebate in $626 Million Climate...
Transit continues to take a back seat, and investments in walking, rolling, and biking are at the symbolic rather than transformative level.
Governor Jay Inslee...