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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Seattle: “Where are we going” lectures

. Eli Goldberg alerts PT to “an amazing speaker series in Seattle by active transportation leaders such as Janette Sadik-Khan,…
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May. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Transit Fares and Inequality

From Governing: . In Some Cities, Your Bus Fare Now Depends on Your Income . Seattle is the latest city…
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May. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Amazon Life in Seattle

From CityLab: Amazon, headquartered in the city’s historically industrial South Lake Union neighborhood, has a workforce spread around more than…
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May. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

A wave of change in Seattle

A Seattle friend reports: “This year is the start of an unprecedented wave of change in our neighborhoods.” . .  …
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

How Seattle beats Vancouver

 From KIRO TV: New apartments could offer transit passes instead of parking . In a presentation to the city council…
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Mar. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Cycling in Seattle

Planning magazine presents a look into the city of Seattle’s bicycling culture and infrastructure. .…
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Mar. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Is Lovable more important then Livable?

From Crosscut, via Frank Ducote:   Is Seattle’s real advantage how adorable it is? by Michael Luis . Is it…
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Feb. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Seattle’s (mostly successful) urban villages

From CityLab: Seattle’s Fight Against Sprawl, 20 Years On . In 1992, then-Mayor Norm Rice announced a strategy to reduce…
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Feb. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

“How Smart Language Helped End Seattle’s Paralyzing Bikelash”

From Streetsblog USA: … if you want proof that language shapes thoughts, look no further than Seattle — where one…
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Jan. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

A Referendum in Seattle: “Which Way to 1985”

I love getting emails like this one from Denis Agar:   I’m taking a Sustainable Transportation Master’s program at the University…
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Jan. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Stirred Pot: Gentrification, NIMBYism, Class and Bad Blood

Up and down the west coast. In Seattle (from the New York Times): In Suburban Seattle, New Nests for China’s…
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Jan. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail of the Year

This one almost deserves a new category of its own: Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck  . . Mark Landman sends…
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Oct. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Yet another record(s)

Scot’s addition to ‘Climate Change Porn’: Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record.. Earth is on pace to tie…
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Oct. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle Symmetry: Who really cares about affordable housing?

It’s another one of those moments where Vancouver and Seattle undertake similar initiatives to respond to similar problems – in…

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