Seattle & King County
Does SDOT have a 'safety culture'?
Not by the evidence of a casual attention to safety at a repair project in Greenwood, with dozens of kids in the work zone.
Douglas MacDonald
Doug MacDonald is a pedestrian activist who lives in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. He served as the Secretary of Transportation for Washington state from 2001 until his retirement in 2007.
Latest work
Politics
Best of 2011: The sorry state of Seattle's streets
The crisis in repairing pavement of our streets has been getting worse for 25 years. City data shows just how bad the problem has become.
Politics
Digging It: As Bertha bores, tunnel geeks everywhere will be watching
Doug MacDonald goes inside the world's most sophisticated tunnel boring machine. Whether you're a tunnel fan or foe, the TBM that will dig it is super cool.
Politics
Digging It: How to bore a tunnel, in pictures
Construction of the Viaduct replacement tunnel is about to begin. The project's workhorse is a state-of-the-art boring machine that will generate as much thrust as 13 space shuttles.
Why Seattle will never be a walkable city
People who walk regularly around Seattle are torn between bafflement and dismay at what they traverse on foot. On any