Meetup Video: March 2022 with Anna Zivarts
Anna Zivarts joined for The Urbanist's March meetup. Zivarts is director of the Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington and is a low-vision...
Shoreline Moves Ahead With Highway Expansion On Seattle’s Doorstep
The City of Shoreline has been working diligently to prepare for the arrival of Link light rail in the city, as Sound Transit works...
Transpo Notes: Café Streets Extended, Green Lake Outer Loop Advances, Metro Delays Service Improvements
This week’s Transpo Notes highlights include details on: Sound Transit's new ticket vending machines, the Green Lake Outer Loop project, transit service changes, Angle...
SDOT Adopts Policy Change to Allow More Marked Crosswalks Without Red Tape
For many years, the Seattle Department of Transportation's policy for justifying whether a crosswalk should be painted has been, counterintuitively, based on the number...
Bellevue Council Update: Some Lessons in Council Procedure
At Monday's Bellevue City Council meeting, Councilmembers voted to approve over $1.7 million in funding for crosswalk improvements, approved further work on a city-sponsored...
Seattle Street Ends: Fremont to the University Along Lake Union and Portage Bay
This article is the third in a series detailing Seattle Street Ends, or the hundreds of different places across the city where streets encounter...
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...
Bill Seeks to Allow Access to “Drive Thru Only” Businesses for Patrons Without Cars
Throughout the pandemic, stories of people who walk, bike, or roll getting turned away from Covid-19 testing sites because they were reserved for people...