Category: urban planning

• Difficulties of Building on Bainbridge Aren’t That Complex

  

  A look into what may be the worst op-ed of all time (and that’s saying something)

  cityhikes

  February 13, 2026

  housing, place, renters, Seattle, segregation, small town, transit, urban planning

  affordable housing, bainbridge, bainbridge island, city planning, land use, planning, Seattle, transit, urban planning, urbanism, water

• On Knowing Where You Are

  

  Ditching the GPS and embracing potentially getting lost.

  cityhikes

  January 24, 2026

  ai, pedestrian access, place, society, transit, urban planning, walk

  car culture, directions, getting lost, lost, Seattle, space, tech, travel, urbanism, walking

• Tech Buses and the Death of the Public Sphere

  

  One man’s journey into the abyss to figure out how annoyed he should be (TLDR: pretty annoyed)

  cityhikes

  December 19, 2025

  car culture, Seattle, sound transit, transit, urban planning

  amazon, bus, car culture, land use, private transit, public transit, Seattle, transit, transportation, urbanism, washington

• Sound Transit and the South End

  

  Looking beyond station sites for reasons to be skeptical

  cityhikes

  December 4, 2025

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

  car culture, chinatown, land use, railroad, Seattle, sound transit, transit, transportation, urbanism, washington

• Man, Our Legal System Really Hates Renters

  

  Why on earth does a lease not count as proof of address to the state of Washington?!

  cityhikes

  November 27, 2025

  renters, urban planning

  bureaucracy, lease, renters, tenure, washington

• Back to Work

  

  Re-entering the workforce, moving, and other things

  cityhikes

  August 18, 2025

  place, society, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, commute, cycling, issaquah, Seattle, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• On the DMV’s Ideas For Driving Alternatives

  

  Did I expect the DMV to revolutionize public transit? No, but I’m still disappointed

  cityhikes

  July 16, 2025

  car culture, highway, odot, pedestrian access, transit, trimet, urban planning, walk

  aging, car culture, dmv, elderly, land use, oregon, portland, retirement, transit, transportation, urbanism

• 80s Greenway Review

  

  Spoiler: it’s not great, and it’s even worse in context

  cityhikes

  July 4, 2025

  bike, highway, pedestrian access, portland, stroad, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, brt, greenway, portland, transit, transportation, urban planning, urbanism, walking

• Back to the Future on a Trolleybus

  

  Or how TriMet’s 2018 Non Diesel Bus Plan falls short

  cityhikes

  July 1, 2025

  interurban, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning

  bus, bus electrification, oregon, transit, transit policy, transportation, trimet, trolleybus, urbanism

• I Like The Preschool For All Tax

  

  And you should write your state legislators to tell them you do too

  cityhikes

  June 24, 2025

  portland, urban planning

  education, means testing, multnomah county, oregon, politics, portland, tax policy