Mayor Durkan Lowers Speed Limits and Announces New Vision Zero Agenda
Within 18 months, the posted maximum speed limit on nearly every single arterial street in the city of Seattle will be 25 miles per...
The Case for Burying I-5 in a Deep-Bore Tunnel
Interstate 5: It's ugly, ubiquitous, and almost universally hated. It's a wall that separates one side of Seattle from the other. It's noisy and...
Sunday Video: Black Friday Parking
https://youtu.be/-XscydK-3LI
Dave Amos talks about parking regulations and parking demand in relation to the Black Friday shopping day. He also does a case study of...
The $10 Million Plan for Adaptive Signals on Denny Way
Pedestrians attempting to crossing Denny Way while walking on Westlake Avenue's east side will find they are only allocated around ten seconds of walk...
What a City Needs: Anarchy at Slow Speeds (A Manifesto)
I live a few steps from the awkward intersection of Summit and Olive, where bus-related improvements shortened the crossing distance for pedestrians within the...
Warren Wants to Eliminate 40,000 Road Deaths, Stranger Reporter Hates It
Sunday was World Day of Remembrance of Traffic Crash Victims and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) paid her respects with a tweet.
"Traffic violence kills...
The Law of Induced Demand: Road Widening (and I-976) Invites Congestion
The four-billion-dollar-and-counting SR-99 tunnel was supposed to relieve congestion. It's been open nine months, but people getting around on Seattle streets and highways probably...
Seattle Squeeze 2.0? SR-99 Tolling Could Divert Traffic to City Streets
Motorists have been able to use the new four-billion-dollar SR-99 Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel for free since it opened February 4th. That will...