Author: cityhikes

• Ballard Doesn’t Need a Sounder Stop

  

  It needs better bus service (and Link actually being delivered wouldn’t hurt)

  cityhikes

  August 20, 2026

  urban planning, transit, Seattle

  urbanism, railroad, transit, transportation, Seattle, washington, bus, sound transit, commuter rail, sounder, ballard, everett, edmonds, mukilteo

• Mourning the TriMet Cuts

  

  Death by one thousand preventable cuts is somehow sadder than losing something all at once

  cityhikes

  August 14, 2026

  portland, transit, urban planning

  or leg, oregon, portland, public transit, transit, transportation, trimet, trimet cuts, urbanism

• Reflections on Greyhound

  

  How it feels to be on a bus going down I-70 between Columbus and Dayton

  cityhikes

  August 12, 2026

  economics, intercity bus, place, small town, transit, urban planning

  flixbus, greyhound, greyound, intercity bus, milwaukee, ohio, transit, urbanism, wisconsin

• Abundance is Not a Good Book

  

  One man’s journey into the land of unstated assumptions

  cityhikes

  July 26, 2026

  ai, high speed rail, housing, renters, transit, urban planning

  abundance, book review, culture, housing, land use, urbanism, urbanist

• The Bus to Hell Goes Through Ballard

  

  Exploring unintended consequences of Amendment 10 to the Seattle Transit Measure

  cityhikes

  July 15, 2026

  Uncategorized

• Nuance Never Ends

  

  And how Clyde Hill’s looming crisis is about more than exclusionary housing

  cityhikes

  July 9, 2026

  urban planning, economics

  fiscal sustainability, goverment finance, infill housing, land use, local finance, property tax, tax policy, urbanism

• On The Fundamental Flaws of Trailhead Direct

  

  How the “Park. Ride. Hike.” slogan lets us all down

  cityhikes

  July 6, 2026

  car culture, outdoors culture, transit, urban planning

  car culture, hiking, hikinh, king county, king county metro, land use, outdoors, Seattle, trailhead direct, transit, transit hiking, urbanism, washington

• Riding All Transit Modes in Seattle

  

  And doing it right! In “just” three hours!

  cityhikes

  June 20, 2026

  place, Seattle, society, sound transit, train, transit, urban planning

  bus, car culture, commuter rail, ferry, light rail, monorail, public transit, railroad, Seattle, streetcar, transit, transportation, travel, trolleybus, urbanism

• The Horror of Transportation Impact Fees in Washington

  

  How poorly defined terms in RCW 82.02.090 undermine transit

  cityhikes

  June 11, 2026

  economics, transit, urban planning

  bus, car culture, impact fees, metro, public finance, public transit, Seattle, transit, transportation, urbanism, washington

• How Do We Make Good Paying Jobs?

  

  And why experts never capture the full picture

  cityhikes

  June 5, 2026

  economics, Seattle, urban planning

  economic development, economics, economy, organizing, portland, Seattle, union