Tag: public transit

• 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

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

• 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

• Public Transit and Rural Places

  

  How American ideas of rural land cripple rural transit, and why we need to fix it

  cityhikes

  February 25, 2025

  europe, intercity bus, small town, society, train, transit, urban planning

  agriculture, history, land use, news, oregon, post bus, public transit, public transportation, railroad, regional planning, rural land, sustainability, switzerland, transit, travel, urbanism

• My Very Silly Morning

  

  How I lost my phone and still had a good ol time

  cityhikes

  November 25, 2024

  Uncategorized

  public transit, public-transportation, transit, transportation, travel

• On the Need For Social Change

  

  It’s not enough to fund transit, we also need to change society

  cityhikes

  August 28, 2024

  car culture, highway, interurban, odot, place, portland, society, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, new york city, oregon, portland, public transit, transit, tube map, urbanism

• On Eurocentrism In Urbanism

  

  Good cities are part of the fundamental human experience, not just the European one

  cityhikes

  January 16, 2024

  place, transit, urban planning

  beijing, cities, city, eurocentrism, hangzhou, land use, los angeles, mexico city, native american history, public transit, tenochtitlan, teotihuacan, urban life, urbanism