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CascadiaCast Episode 5: Cathy Tuttle
After a bit of a lull, CascadiaCast is back! (And with a hell of a lot better sound quality.) I had the exciting opportunity to talk with Cathy Tuttle, Executive Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. We took a fascinating dive into … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Buses, CascadiaCast, Demographics, Government, Housing, Land Use, Parks, Policy, Schools, Transportation, Walking
Tagged bicycle, bicycling, bike, Cascade, Cathy, Club, coalition, engineering, funding, greenways, infrastruture, investment, neighborhood, origins, pedestrian, safe, safety, Seattle, signage, signals, standards, streets, sustainability, traffic, Tuttle, urban, walk, walking
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The Good and the Bad of Driverless Cars for Cities
The age of driverless cars is rapidly approaching, and no one seems to know what to do about it. The technology is picking up steam in the behemoth automotive industry while only a few states have regulations on the books … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Energy, Government, Land Use, Roads, Sustainability, Transportation
Tagged adoption, automated, autonomous, AV, buses, cars, charge, cities, computers, congestion, costs, Driverless, efficiency, electric, emissions, energy, fee, Ford, fuel, funding, gas, Google, highways, lyft, motors, roads, safety, self, sensors, streets, Tesla, timeline, transit, transportation, trucks, urban, vehicles
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The Metro Neighborhood: A Renewed Vision for Downtown Seattle
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
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It’s All About Streets
Think of different types of public space and parks, plazas, and piers probably come to mind. Streets are another type that often make up the largest share of publicly-owned land within cities, but they may not be obviously “public” in … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Land Use, Policy, Public Space, Sustainability, Transportation
Tagged automobile, bike, bus, car, complete street, dense, mall, mixed-use, multi-modal, parklet, pedestrian, right-of-way, road diet, Seattle, small town, sprawl, street tree, streets, suburb, traffic, transit, trees
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Murray Sees Progress Ahead for Seattle
Newly elected Seattle Mayor Ed Murray delivered his first State of the City address Tuesday afternoon in a packed chamber at City Hall. He highlighted the pride and spirit of community that is embodied in Seattlites, and also went over … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Buses, Climate, Demographics, Government, Housing, Policy, Rail, Roads, Schools, Sustainability, Transportation, Walking
Tagged 2014, bike share, bus, city hall, climate change, Council, economic justice, Ed Murray, elections, income inequality, internet, levy, mayor, metro, minimum wage, municipal broadband, parks, SDOT, sea level rise, Seattle, seawall, social justice, state, State of the City, streets, univerisal pre-school, utility, video, Washington, waterfront, WSDOT
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