Tag: railroad

• What’s in a Station Area?

  

  Is a train really all you need to live a transit oriented life? (Hint: no)

  cityhikes

  March 24, 2026

  Seattle, society, train, transit, urban planning

  brt, bus, bus rapid transit, commuter rail, king county metro, land use, light rail, lrt, metro, psrc, railroad, sounder, tod, transit, transit oriented develop, transit oriented development, transportation, urbanism

• Transit Trip Report: Bellingham

  

  Or how to get 100 miles north for $6

  cityhikes

  February 23, 2026

  intercity bus, Seattle, sound transit, transit, trip report, urban planning

  bellingham, railroad, skagit transit, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• 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

• Train Station Reunions

  

  Feeling sentimental after riding Amtrak one too many times

  cityhikes

  September 18, 2025

  society, train, transit

  amtrak, railroad, security theater, train station, transit, transportation, travel

• Railroads and Planning

  

  Does anyone understand what a railroad even is?

  cityhikes

  April 15, 2025

  place, portland, train, transit, urban planning

  forest park, freight rail, history, land use, oregon, pge, politics, portland, rail, rail policy, railroad, trains, transit, travel, urbanism

• Following The Thread of the O&C

  

  Does a turn of the 20th century scandal railroad scandal still matter?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2025

  bike, outdoors culture, place, train, urban planning

  california, environment, family-history, forest, genealogy, history, land use, land use policy, oregon, politics, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism

• Book Review: A Paradise of Small Houses

  

  Spoiler: I really didn’t like it

  cityhikes

  March 2, 2025

  chicago, housing, los angeles, place, portland, transit, urban planning

  book-reviews, books, boston, chicago, ireland, irish-american, land use, new york, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism, walking

• 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

• Unpacking the Backpacking Pack

  

  Pondering nature, Indian removal, and what it all means in my life

  cityhikes

  October 22, 2024

  outdoors culture, place, society, train, transit, walk

  adventure, amtrak, backpacking, environmentalism, glacier national park, hiking, land use, national parks, national parks service, native american history, nature, nps, railroad, travel, walking

• Ampacking Glacier National Park

  

  Sure, you can take Amtrak to Glacier, but should you? (yes)

  cityhikes

  September 24, 2024

  car culture, outdoors culture, pedestrian access, small town, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, car culture, glacier, glacier national park, glacier np, hiking, land use, montana, national parks, railroad, transit, travel, urbanism, walking