Seattle
July 10, 2007
Good ol' American dog leavings....
March 20, 2007
My prescient feedback on a misguided apartment development, plus before-after photos....
March 19, 2007
Seattle's got a bunch of streetcar plans, here's a short review....
November 25, 2006
Reflections on living atop hills and inventing street rises....
July 11, 2005
Our regional transit agency has padlocked a pedestrian bridge near my home for the last two months to keep me safe....
June 22, 2005
A couple of years ago I had an epiphany about the cultural convergence of Seattle's International District, and what was missing from a design perspective....
May 26, 2005
Derelict, drifting shopping carts....
May 4, 2005
Let's add some cool signs to Seattle's International District...
April 6, 2005
Seattle's Chinatown/International District has the chance to strengthen its identity by preserving and supplementing murals painted on buildings and public infrastructure....
March 3, 2005
Why don't children walk to school? What makes a community walkable?...
March 2, 2005
520 is beyond my normal scope, but arguments against widening mesh well with my overall message....
The implicit message of I-5 through downtown Seattle is that movement between places by automobile is more important than the places themselves. We were willing to destroy hundreds - thousands? - of homes and businesses in order to get to...
February 14, 2005
The city is proposing to build a mixed use path in The Jungle on Beacon Hill....
January 14, 2005
Feet First asked for a speed reduction on the viaduct to improve safety and decrease road noise. I sent a letter to the editor to support them....
January 13, 2005
I took an exploratory hike through the West Duwamish Greenbelt, as part of an ongoing research project into Seattle Municipal Railway's Division C, aka the Highland Park and Lake Burien Railway....
December 28, 2004
The Roanoke community is getting a noise wall....
Information about Washington freeway noise laws....
Neighbors of the I-5 bridge over the ship canal are finally getting respite....
December 13, 2004
This brief walk starts at the Nippon-kan parking lot on the west side of I-5, then crosses Yesler and heads down through Yesler Terrace, and ends under the freeway on Jackson....
September 16, 2004
Quiet roadways are demanded by wealthy lake-view landowners in this PI article today. The noise abatement laws are new to me - another item to research. [Here's the results of that research]. I wonder what the threshold currently is in...
September 12, 2004
A caring citizen asked for more respect for freeways' neighbors in today's Seattle Times....
August 3, 2004
Plans for parks...
July 27, 2004
Belltown, coolest and most expensive neighborhood in Seattle, isn't spared freeway woes....
Unpublished letter to the Times about their recent article and editorial. A similar letter was sent in response to the PI's transportation column....
July 20, 2004
My neighborhood is boxed in by raised freeway viaducts....
Soundwalls and screens will take away the precious views from freeways, likely resulting in outrage and political backlash from selfish, pampered drivers. Here's an email exchange about screens for the I-90 bike path after shoulders are removed:...
The original question/answer article resulted in an overwhelming number of people saying they love the viaduct. I guess they don't read my site. Here's my reply to an email from the PI:...
Letter in reply to editorial column in the Sunday, July 18 2004 edition of the Seattle PI:...
July 13, 2004
A collection of photos at Royal Brougham....
It seems that mega-projects are destined to fail on a small scale....
July 12, 2004
Places like this make it clear that pedestrians are at the bottom of the pecking order....
No garbage cans, no toilets....
Mega columns warrant mega sidewalks....
A nicely kept corner park.. or corner parking?...
Express lanes dive into the bus tunnel...
'Concrete jungle' indeed. Rising out of hard-pack dirt and gravel, towering over weed underbrush....
Here's some poor poetry about freeways that I penned this morning....
My neighborhood is surrounded by elevated freeways....
January 13, 2004
Exploration of Chinatown and Japantown stations in the US, with ideas for Seattle....
November 8, 2003
Sound Transit Central Link Groundbreaking at Link Maintenance Base...
September 3, 2003
Inaugural unannounced walk to work day!...
February 8, 2003
Take a horological tour of downtown Seattle!...
October 14, 2002
Imagining where the Green Line would be....
May 10, 2002
Have you walked around the International District in Seattle? No, I mean around it....
November 9, 2000
Not really about Seattle... thoughts on trains....
September 10, 2000
Pedestrian related links spiraling out from Seattle....
September 9, 2000
Some train related links spiraling out from Seattle....
August 14, 2000
Various train related stuff from the region around Seattle....
August 12, 2000
Review of streetcar in Seattle...
August 11, 2000
A review of monorail in Seattle....
August 9, 2000
Review of trains in Seattle....
August 8, 2000
A review of buses in downtown Seattle....
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