Category Archives: Transportation

Seattle Bike Activists Launch Major Infrastructure Campaign

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

Last Saturday a coalition of local non-profits kicked off a grassroots campaign to accelerate construction of 250 additional miles of key Seattle bicycle routes by 2025. The city already has 135 miles of bike infrastructure, and momentum is building to … Continue reading →

Posted in Biking, Event Writeup, Policy, Transportation | Tagged advocacy, Ballard, Bike Master Plan, bikes, campaign, Cascade Bicycle Club, City, Connect Seattle, connections, Council, department of transportation, DOT, downtown, grassroots, greenways, light rail, major, Montlake, movement, neighborhoods, network, Northgate, plans, politics, Portage Bay, projects, protected bike lanes, regional trails, safety, SDOT, Seattle, Seattle Bike Summit, West Seattle, Westlake | 11 Comments

Civic Indicators Highlight Seattle’s Progress, Challenges

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

Correction: The SSNAP report has been updated to correct statistics on where Seattle residents work. 38.2 percent of Seattle’s employed residents work outside of the city, not 62 percent. A new report by consulting firm Steinbrueck Urban Strategies, headed up … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Density, Energy, Event Writeup, Food, Housing, Land Use, Parks, Policy, Resources, Schools, Transportation, Water | Tagged access, analysis, budget, capital facilities, City Council, comprehensive plan, electricty, funding, Growth Management Act, historic preservation, infrastructure, neighborhood plan, neighborhoods, parks, performance, Peter, policy, report, ridership, Seattle, Seattle 2035, Seattle Sustainable Neighborhoods Asessement Project, SSNAP, Steinbrueck, strategy, sustainability, transit, urban village, waste, water | 5 Comments

The 12th Man Lives On

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

I don’t really care for football. In fact, I take issue with its non-profit status and insistence on public financing for private stadiums. But I do appreciate its contribution to a community spirit that has enlivened Seattle and the entire … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial, Energy, Landscape, Resources, Sustainability, Transportation, Water | Tagged 12th Man, activism, attitude, British Columbia, Cascadia, civics, community, culture, geography, identity, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, people, Portland, Seahawks, Seattle, sense of place, spirit, Super Bowl, Vancouver, Washington | 2 Comments

Kitsap Transit Plans to Revive High Speed Ferries

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

Kitsap Transit plans to begin high speed foot ferry service between western Puget Sound and Seattle within the next few years. Trips between Bremerton and Seattle would be 25 to 30 minutes faster than the current car ferry run, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Ferries, Government, Land Use, Transportation | Tagged Bremerton, business plan, Colman Dock, dock, downtown, fare, ferry, funding, high speed, history, Kingston, Kitsap, Kitsap County, Kitsap Peninsula, Kitsap Transit, parking, passenger only, Port Orchard, price, report, ridership, schedule, Seattle, Southworth, study, survey, tax, timeline, Washington State Ferries, WSF | 15 Comments

Seattle Set to Increase Car Share Limits

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

On Tuesday the Seattle City Council transportation committee voted to approve an increase in the number of free-floating car share permits and operators. This would primarily benefit car2go, the German company whose blue-and-white mini cars are rented on a per … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, Policy, Transportation | Tagged cap, car share, car2go, City Council, committee, commuter, DriveNow, expansion, on-street, operators, parking, pilot program, public, restrictions, SDOT, Seattle, spaces, transit, transportation, Zipcar | 7 Comments

SDOT To Extend Roosevelt Protected Bike Lane to 65th Street

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Scott Bonjukian

At the Wednesday meeting of Seattle’s Bicycle Advisory Board, staff from the city’s department of transportation (SDOT) announced they will indeed extend a protected bike lane (PBL) another 20 blocks as part of an arterial repaving project on Roosevelt Way … Continue reading →

Posted in Biking, Buses, Cars, Government, Parking, Transportation | Tagged 45th Street, 65th Street, bus bulbs, cost, department of transportation, extension, funding, neighborhood, PBL, protected bike lane, Ravenna, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Way NE, SDOT, Seattle, sidewalk, transit, transit islands, U-District, University Bridge, university district, University Greenways | 6 Comments

The Case for a Wallingford Crossing

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Scott Bonjukian

Interstate 5, like freeways everywhere, is a real barrier between Seattle’s U-District and Wallingford neighborhoods. Currently there are only four street connections between the two, down from 12 before the freeway was built. Recent discussions at community meetings have brought … Continue reading →

Posted in Biking, Transportation, Walking | Tagged 47th Street, barrier, bicycles, bike bridge, bikes, comfort, connection, Crossing, freeway, Fremont, greenway, I-5, integration, Interstate 5, light rail, Link, neigborhood, Northgate, pedestrian bridge, pedestrians, safety, Seattle, sound transit, U-District, walking, Wallingford | 12 Comments

The Metro Neighborhood: A Renewed Vision for Downtown Seattle

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Scott Bonjukian

The University of Washington (UW) is one of downtown Seattle’s largest landowners, but you wouldn’t know it just by being there. The university controls about eleven acres of prime real estate where the original campus was founded in 1861, known … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial, Housing, Land Use, Mixed Use, Parks, Public Space, Schools, Sustainability, Transportation | Tagged alleys, Cobb Building, Department of Urban Design and Planning, downtown, Fairmont Olympic Hotel, ideas, Metro Tract, Metropolitan, office, ownership, parks, plaza, proposal, public space, Rainier Square, Rainier Tower, real estate, redevelopment, residential, retail, Skinner Building, streets, Tract, UNICO, university of washington, uw, Wright Runstad | 6 Comments

The Alaskan Way Viaduct Must Come Down

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Scott Bonjukian

A group of Seattle residents called Park My Viaduct is campaigning to convert the city’s waterfront freeway into a linear park, akin to New York’s High Line. They are proposing to save 14 blocks of the concrete double-decked structure, put … Continue reading →

Posted in Megaprojects, Parks, Public Space, Transportation | Tagged Alaskan Way Viaduct, analysis, construction, criticism, earthquake, High Line, Highway 99, idea, keep, New York, Nisqually, park, Park My Viaduct, parks, participation, plan, preservation, preserve, proposal, public, replacement, seismic, tunnel, waterfront, WSDOT | 14 Comments

U-District Open Space Forum Wraps Up

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Scott Bonjukian

The third and final public meeting on an update to the U-District neighborhood’s park plan was held on Wednesday night. Like the first meeting (I missed the second), the event was well attended and organized. Here, city staff and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing, Land Use, Parks, Policy, Public Space, Transportation | Tagged 12th Avenue, 15th Avenue, 42nd Street, 43rd Street, Brooklyn Avenue, department of planning and development, DOT, DPD, farmer's market, festival street, framework, green streets, growth, light rail, MAKERS, meeting, neighborhood, open space, Open Space Forum, parks, participation, Partnership, plan, public, square, station, street, The Ave, transit, transportation, U-District, university of washington, upzone, urban design, zoning | 11 Comments