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Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley@towns.gay
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I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 29, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

@dgodon@mastodon.online @urbanistorg@mstdn.social agreed. But if the legislature won't even approve the small steps...

We're also trying to cover those big moves too, of course.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 12, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

An amendment dropped by Rob Saka just 24 hours before the final hearing on the city budget today asks for a plan to decommission one of the city's streetcar lines, which has been operating in SLU since 2007 but has struggled with low ridership.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/12/rob-saka-pushes-to-decommission-the-south-lake-union-streetcar/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 11, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Initial ridership data on Seattle's newest RapidRide line reveal over 4,000 riders hopped on a bus on an average weekday in October, a 15% increase over the line's first few weeks in September. While it's starting out strong, there's clearly room to grow.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/11/rapidride-g-bus-ridership-starts-strong/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 08, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Even as other major cities are dropping mandates to include an arbitrary number of parking stalls in new development, Seattle is set to double down, requiring them even with new transit-oriented zoning and neighborhood hubs.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/08/seattle-set-to-double-down-on-arbitrary-parking-mandates/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 04, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

A land use fight is brewing on Bainbridge Island, where growth targets and state housing mandates could mean big changes.

So far the Bainbridge City Council has signaled a desire to do the bare minimum, but not everyone's on board with that.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/04/sleepy-bainbridge-island-decides-how-to-grow-up/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Nov 02, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

@LCW4PPL@social.ridetrans.it I noticed the same, so I'm holding back from sharing until I hear back from Sound Transit.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 31, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

In 2021, Rob Saka demanded, as a private citizen, that SDOT remove a barrier preventing drivers from turning left into a preschool parking lot.

Now that he's an elected official, he's proposed a $2 million earmark to force its removal.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/31/saka-seeks-to-remove-delridge-lane-divider/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 29, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Bellevue has released initial designs for a pedestrian bridge over I-405 that it hopes can not only act as a multimodal connection but as a community amenity, integrated into the surrounding neighborhood.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/29/bellevue-pedestrian-bridge-over-i-405/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 28, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Digging into the archives to spell out the fact that the Seattle Times editorial board has never supported a city transportation levy, going back to 2006. Their credibility has run out on this issue.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/28/the-times-credibility-run-out-on-seattle-transportation-levy/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 24, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Emails show how Kemper Development, unhappy with plans for a two-way protected bike lane along the back of Bellevue Square, proposed an alternative to route people on bikes onto side streets. The plan was approved by the city's transportation commission.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/24/bellevue-greenlights-bike-detour-proposed-by-kemper/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 22, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

The environmental review for the largest highway project that the Pacific Northwest has ever seen is out for public comment. It includes a glaring omission: the fact of induced demand.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/22/pacific-northwests-largest-highway-project-ever-is-in-deep-denial/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 22, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Got to join the great folks at KUOW's Soundside today to talk about last week's release of the updated One Seattle Comprehensive Plan.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattles-latest-growth-plan-is-out-how-would-it-ch

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 19, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Eight years after Sound Transit 3, Ballard Link is still stuck in planning limbo. I dug into what's actually happening and when we might see progress.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/19/why-ballard-link-is-still-trapped-in-planning-limbo/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 18, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

NEW: Despite the fact that fatalities and serious injuries nearly doubled on Tacoma's roadways between 2019 and 2023, the city's proposed budget for the next two years would reduce $900,000 in Vision Zero funding to just $90,000, a 90% decrease.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/18/tacoma-set-to-slash-vision-zero/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 18, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Things we don't talk about: the cost of *not* making speed and reliability improvements to our local bus network.

Due to increased traffic congestion, King County Metro expects to schedule an additional 6,500 hours in 2025 and 18,000 in 2026...to maintain the same service.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 17, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Here's the full rundown of the latest draft of Seattle's 20-year growth plan.

The good: more neighborhood centers, fewer Middle Housing restrictions

The bad: more traffic-oriented development, parking mandates sticking around

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/17/updated-seattle-growth-plan-adds-five-neighborhood-anchors-bigger-fourplexes/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 14, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar and CM Claudia Balducci are among the voices pushing for the next update to the central Puget Sound's regional transportation plan to be ambitious and transformative, rather than minor and around-the-edges.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/14/puget-sound-transportation-plan-refresh/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 10, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Without major action in next year's county budget, King County Metro faces a significant fiscal cliff in the coming years as the agency starts to exhaust its reserve funds. County officials are starting to grapple with that reality.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/10/king-county-metro-faces-looming-fiscal-cliff/?feed_id=4303&_unique_id=6707de57431fd

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 08, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Following the launch of Lynnwood Link and an associated bus restructure in Snohomish County, Community Transit's three Swift BRT routes all saw double digit ridership increases, including a 36% jump on the Orange Line.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/07/lynnwood-link-brings-huge-ridership-boost-to-community-transits-swift-network/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley@towns.gay · Oct 03, 2024
Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley@towns.gay

I'm a transportation and housing reporter living in Seattle. My areas of focus include making our streets safer for people outside cars, the best ways to utilize public space, and how to prevent the present from holding the future hostage.

towns.gay

Seattle has been planning to expand the number of school zone speed cameras for nearly two years. Rob Saka, now the chair of the transportation committee, has suggested that the city reconsider that plan, using reasoning that rests on shaky ground.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/03/saka-questions-school-zone-camera-expansion/

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