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The City Needs Bike Boulevards

We're not always fond of traffic calming techniques. Our reasoning is that traffic calming often makes a street near-useless for any purpose other than neighborhood parking. If the City is going to impose traffic calming on so many streets, at least it could do what Portland does and make the traffic-calmed streets useful for other purposes, like biking: Happily, the... read more »

Using Belgian Blocks to Improve the Urban Environment for Pedestrians

Car-dominated streets are lousy places to walk. To reduce the impacts of traffic, the City of Seattle runs a Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program. "Traffic calming" refers to the tricks that the City uses to make it a pain in the ass to drive through side streets---traffic circles, chicanes, speed humps, and curb bulbs. We like curb bulbs because they make... read more »

Growth Is an Opportunity to Create Better Urban Communities

We love the optimism in today's op-ed by Futurewise's Dan Cantrell and Transportation Choices Coalition's Jessyn Farrell: The Seattle region, for the first six years anyway, has grown somewhat faster than the 2002 forecasts predicted. Growth brings challenges, but also opportunities. Seattle is growing because of our strong regional economy and new jobs, our fabulous landscape and natural amenities, our... read more »

News and Happenings

A LOT is in the balance - more parks, better multifamily housing, opposition to the new mega-mall on Dearborn and Rainier, and much more. Learn more at our Issues page.

We're excited to have Katherine Fountain join the Steering Committee. Welcome, Katherine. Want to join the Steering Committee too? Check out our Jobs page.