Building more dense housing within vibrant walkable neighborhoods is a key climate strategy, argues IPCC author. The Seattle ...

Claudia Balducci, the second longest serving member of the Sound Transit board, will no longer be a member of the committee she's lead since 2018. The swap out comes just as the board faces critical ...

As the First Hill Streetcar celebrates a decade carrying riders, questions mount about the future of the Seattle Streetcar network as a whole. With a plan to finally connect the two existing lines ...

Adding a light rail stop next to Bellevue's decommissioned airport could unlock more than 100 acres for dense urban development, boosting the potential of the planned line to Issaquah. Like Bel-Red or ...

Oudburg, a shared street in Ghent, Belgium. Building similar streets is now a possibility for Washington cities following a state law change. (Mark Ostrow) A shared street, as defined by SB 5595, has ...

A snazzy cable-stayed suspension bridge is planned over the Duwamish River for the West Seattle Link Extension, a project again headed for massive cost overruns. (Sound Transit) Overhauling the ST3 ...

Before moving ahead with building a second Downtown Seattle light rail tunnel as planned, Sound Transit is taking a second look at putting a third line in the existing tunnel instead. Doing so would ...

Since voters approved West Seattle and Ballard Link in 2016, the two light rail projects have been caught in a perfect storm of factors that led to the eye-popping cost estimates that we have today.

The Seattle skyline view that the Urbanist Election Committee took in as it voted on its 2023 Primary Endorsements. (The Urbanist) It’s that time of the year. Summer is practically half over and we’re ...

The new Manito Six apartments in Spokane will provide badly needed infill housing on a small lot. But in Seattle, the deck is stacked against buildings like this. (Matt Hutchins) The stacked flat, a ...

The release of the city's final environmental review of the One Seattle growth plan is likely to be followed by an appeal, in an attempt to stop neighborhood-level zoning changes. But while an appeal ...

Interbay is a collision of changing urban landscapes, expensive deteriorating infrastructure, and confused layers of authority. As the smaller of Seattle’s two industrial centers, Interbay is ground ...