Mike Rosenberg has another excellent piece in the Seattle Times, examining why housing construction in suburban King County has slowed while Seattle remains red-hot. Overall, Seattle housing construction has grown 130 percent this decade compared to the average over the prior three decades, while housing development in the suburbs has dropped 43 percent from its […]

Allowing Seattle City Light to sell surplus land for affordable housing… …let’s use it to build mass timber social housing instead Josh Feit wants us to look past the Showbox: more housing, less nostalgia A ban on apartments hurts public education Nicole Grant in the Seattle Times: the city should add more ADUs Exploring Seattle […]

When the new 520 bridge opened last year, it created a glorious, continuous HOV-3 lane from Bellevue all the way to Montlake. Unfortunately, it also created a new bottleneck for buses: the Eastbound offramp from SR-520 to Montlake Blvd has become a notorious parking lot for cars and buses exiting the freeway, as any passenger […]

Ask any dieter: the last ten pounds are the hardest. For the past several years, Seattle has been racking up amazing year-over-year declines in the percentage of downtown commuters who arrive by single-occupancy vehicle, despite adding tens of thousands of new jobs and residents.  This didn’t happen magically – it required hard work and coordination from […]

County proposes putting hotel/motel taxes to use for affordable housing Capitol Hill TOD breaks ground Where the growth is happening in the region What’s up with the fans in the I-90 tunnel How interactive mapping helped sell MHA Lynnwood link construction contracts to be awarded this fall The case for keeping Island Transit free Seattle […]

King County Metro restarts affordable TOD process at Northgate link station, hoping to get more affordable units Lakewood’s SR 512 P&R closing for 4 months, here are alternatives Naming the new Seattle tunnel City scores a victory in MHA process 160 affordable units near the Rainier Beach Link station Rezoned, revitalized Aurora Vancouver looking at up […]

Class action lawsuit filed against Sound Transit on car tab fees One step closer to free transit for high school students Metro kicks off Eastside mobility survey the death of America’s small apartments Lynnwood link online survey California going big on EV charging Meanwhile, plenty of hypocrisy to go around with BART and housing What […]

Estonia on the free transit tip Bellevue’s Spring District getting more offices NTSB holding a hearing on last winter’s Amtrak Cascades derailment Even when you think you’re done paying for parking garages, you still gotta maintain ’em Deep dive from the Times on bike lane costs [$].  Spoiler: most of the money wasn’t for the bike […]