Transportation - RANGE Media (Page 2)

The people want safer streets — and the electeds are listening

Restricted turns on red, a traffic police unit (finally!) and a plan to get to the root causes of crash fatalities announced at Mayor Brown’s street safety press conference this week.

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 18 Apr 2025

What’s coming in Spokane’s bike and active transportation infrastructure in 2026

50 new bike racks coming to a spot near you

Here’s where, and how to request a bike rack for your favorite destination.

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 9 Apr 2025

Immigration officers can board STA buses, but workers cannot help them

Transit agency leadership circulated a memo spelling out how employees should interact with immigration agents on buses and in facilities.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 11 Feb 2025

Most WA federal rulings found immigrant detentions flouted due process

The urbanist’s guide to bills to write home (or your legislators) about

From corner cafés to noise cameras and smaller elevators, these new state bills could improve your neighborhood!

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 5 Feb 2025

What’s coming in Spokane’s bike and active transportation in 2025

My faves? A Children of the Sun river crossing and a shared-use path to Airway Heights are en route.

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 15 Jan 2025

What the failure of Initiative 2117 means for Spokane’s transit

Spokane County precincts that voted against the 2024 election initiative — that would’ve killed the cap-and-trade programs in Washington and cut transit funding across the state — aligned almost exactly with the boundaries of the Spokane Transit Authority’s service area.

By Erin Sellers

/ 8 Jan 2025

Spokane’s Top 10 Most Dangerous Intersections

Get a sense for the safety of our city’s streets — and your neighborhood — with a virtual tour of Spokane’s most dangerous intersections with our City Hall reporter and our urbanism columnist.

By Erin Sellers and Lauren Pangborn

/ 20 Nov 2024

STA lays out its big transit dreams for Division and beyond in the Connect 2035 plan

Connect 2035 charts all the agency's high hopes for the next ten years, but still, some say it's not dreaming big enough.

By Erin Sellers

/ 19 Nov 2024

Lilac Loop, 27 by 2027, Urban Mobility Network: whatever it’s called, Spokane’s planning for it

There’s a new plan to build 27 miles of low-stress walking and cycling routes by 2027 — aka an Urban Mobility Network. See if the network is coming to your neighborhood.

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 14 Nov 2024

A familiar face returns to Spokane in Brown cabinet reshuffle

Former council member Jon Snyder is biking his way back to Spokane to serve as the city’s first Director of Transportation and Sustainability, a new cabinet-level position that will, apparently, not cost the city a cent.

By Erin Sellers

/ 23 Oct 2024

A guide to Spokane’s current bike network for the bike-curious — and what it’ll look like by 2030

All the bike infrastructure we’ll have by 2030 that I’d recommend to cautious cyclists, like my in-laws.

By Lauren Pangborn

/ 9 Oct 2024

Spokane Transit Authority will hear you now!

Good news! After community and transit stakeholder feedback, the STA will now implement a CEO hiring process with public and employee input.

By Erin Sellers

/ 26 Jul 2024