Tag: ryan packer

January 10, 2024

Seattle’s mixed history building neighborhood greenways

Neighborhood greenways have a hit and miss history in Seattle. Sometimes they create fantastic all ages and abilities walking and biking connections, and sometimes they are so heavily compromised that they do very little. So as Seattle prepares to create a new transportation plan and craft a new transportation funding measure, we should probably get…
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tagged: 2024 transportation funding measure, beacon hill, delridge, neighborhood greenways, parks and recreation, rainier valley neighborhood greenway, ryan packer, sdot, seattle transportation plan, the urbanist
October 2, 2023

Pause the Denny Way repaving project until it is safe and aligns with Seattle’s transportation policy

People are injured and killed in preventable traffic collisions on Denny Way every year, yet Seattle is planning to invest more than $5 million in the street without addressing its dangerous street design. Instead, the project is moving forward without regard for the city’s Vision Zero goals and without addressing needs specifically called for in…
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tagged: complete streets, denny way, pedestrian master plan, ryan packer, sdot, traffic operations division, transit master plan, vision zero
December 6, 2022

Packer: The public won’t build a new surface parking lot near Pike Place Market after all

Ryan Packer has some wonderful news: Seattle City Light will not build its planned surface parking lot at Western Ave and Blanchard Street after all. Word of the proposed parking lot, located within the Western Ave business strip that extends north from Pike Place Market, was a huge disappointment after a public process revealed a…
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tagged: belltown, blanchard st, parking lots, ryan packer, seattle city light, the urbanist, western ave
December 5, 2022

Listen: Packer and Freemark discuss rising traffic deaths in the US

While other nations are reducing their traffic deaths and serious injuries, the US is heading in the wrong direction. KUOW’s Soundside asked Seattle’s Ryan Packer and DC’s Yonah Freemark why the US is exceptional. Listen to the 20-minute story. An excerpt: “When you look at countries in Europe and Asia, what you find is that…
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tagged: kuow, listen, ryan packer, soundside, yonah freemark
November 14, 2022

Packer: Rainier Valley Greenway may soon connect to I-90 Trail

The Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway may finally connect to the I-90/Mountains to Sound Trail after years of delay and inter-agency disagreement. In early 2021, Ryan Packer reported that WSDOT had refused to work with SDOT on completing the connection from the greenway route to the trail. So the greenway route on 28th Ave S has…
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tagged: I-90 trail, rainier valley neighborhood greenway, ryan packer, sdot, wsdot
June 14, 2021

WSDOT won’t work with SDOT to connect the Rainier Valley Greenway to the I-90 Trail

For years, WSDOT has resisted working with Seattle to connect the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway to the Mountains to Sound Trail (AKA the I-90 Trail), according to reporting by Ryan Packer for the Urbanist. Packer requested emails between the two public agencies to uncover why this final connection remains incomplete years after the rest of…
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tagged: 28th ave s, I-90 trail, rainier valley neighborhood greenway, ryan packer, sdot, the urbanist, wsdot