Are you down for urban density? Speak up for abundant and affordable housing at the District 3+7 (Central Seattle, Pioneer Square to Magnolia) MHA public hearing on April 16!https://t.co/rnS6JE3JdU pic.twitter.com/sAJafzbHvz — SeaTech4Housing (@seatech4housing) April 5, 2018 On Monday, you have a chance to speak to Seattle city council members about one of the greatest challenges […]

Nestled by the confluence of Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers, the City of Wenatchee is framed by some of the most dramatic scenery in the state. A small urban core of about fifty thousand people, squeezed into a bench around the confluence, serves as the primary urban center for a huge rural hinterland that extends roughly from […]

“Red paint” — SDOT collecting feedback on Broadway transit lane proposal. PLUZ committee moves parking reform. Almost all the debilitating Herbold amendments were defeated. This small Wallingford apartment building is fine-grained urbanism at its finest. Paris to offer subsidies to those who buy bikes, give up cars. New federal budget would likely keep money flowing […]

Rainier Valley through the years. In Kenmore, urbanism takes root in suburbia. Could Pittsburgh public transit handle Amazon HQ2? LA taps the brakes on freeway expansion. How a new transit system could hobble Montreal. Missed connections, a treatise. The MTA genius challenge is as bad as expected. Excellent principles for shared mobility. Dublin, California city […]

Microtransit: What I think we know. How I came to Seattle, a trip I’ll never forget ($). Boomtown Seattle: Why we move here — and how we’re all in it together ($).  If only Times editorials reflected more of the spirit of their contemporary reporting. American cities and the creeping criminalization of walking. Pittsburgh vows to […]

Sizeism: Why small homes belong in Fremont and Seattle-wide. Doug at the Urbanist pushes back on that awful Times op-ed ($). And here’s Heidi at the Stranger. A 14-story hotel at the entrance to Pike Place Market? Not so fast, say opponents ($). As an architecture critic remarks, “The zoning for it has been in […]

A walking cure for Sarcellitis: can trails unite Paris’s city and suburbs? Utah legislators propose radical changes for transportation, transit — including a tax hike. Instead of a wall, why not a binational border bikeshare? In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future. After 5 years, walk-bike bridge design for Northgate light-rail station […]

In response to growth, Chinese cities choose metros. Highway 99 tunnel in Seattle will open to traffic this fall ($), the state and contractors say. Morning Crank: Resolutely Pro-Housing. Here’s a PDF of PSRC’s funded 2017 Transportation Alternatives funding. Podcast ($): As Seattle faces an even worse traffic nightmare, do officials have a plan or […]

The subway built New York; now it must be repaired at any price ($). Jonathan Mahler’s survey of the history and present of the New York subway is a tour de force. If you read only one thing this week, make it this. Transit riders in Wenatchee ($) can now use their smartphone to buy a […]

Unsurprisingly, regional and national transportation news has been dominated since Monday by the tragic Amtrak 501 derailment. Because many of our readers are following the news of that accident via traditional or social media, and every outlet is working with the same (small) set of facts, I elected not to try and summarize all the […]