I am now Hong Konging. Ask me anything.

Now that @sound-transit.bsky.social has proven it can run light rail over floating bridges, we can turn our attention to the next obvious cross-lake connection. I present the 5 Line: Fauntleroy to Cougar Mountain via South Mercer Island.

I love how this area Bike Map at the Judkins Park light rail station doens't show I-5 and to a casual look I-90 is a bike trail. #MaptheWorldYouWant

This post about Los Angeles doesn't bode well for Sound Transit Stride BRT Line S3, which last I heard, planned to use BYD electric bendy-buses on SR 522 from Shoreline to Bothell.

I love to see it, 4 minute combined service! But this Siemens northbound 2 Line has all the onboard screens stuck at "ID/Chinatown" despite being at Capitol Hill.

FTA National Transit Database data for all of 2025 has been released. Here are the top ridership urban areas, including all agencies and modes: Some are strongly up year-to-year (NY, DC, Seattle), some are sadly down (LA, Baltimore, Minneapolis).

Wow, my Bluesky post featured on a City Nerd video! 🎉 All this data is based on 2024 data, but the FTA will release full year 2025 data any week now. I will update my rankings - some cities have continued to recover post-Covid, while others have stagnated.

Wow, my Bluesky post featured on a City Nerd video! 🎉 All this data is based on 2024 data, but the FTA will release full year 2025 data any week now. I will update my rankings - some cities have continued to recover post-Covid, while others have stagnated. youtu.be/17upoRCn01s?...

Secretary Noem, your administration now openly authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter people's homes without a judicial warrant. That is blatantly unconstitutional – ICE cannot authorize itself to break into people’s homes. If ICE attempts such unconstitutional measures in Washington...

In happier news today, I just voted online in a completely secure and official election for King County Conservation District. If you live in Seattle, you can too!

Wow, Democrats privileging the priorities of white racists over those of Blacks and white liberals, like its not even 1964 yet. No wonder this country is such a mess. No wonder 10,000,000s marching in the streets for the past decade have produced negligible policy change.

Sound Transit is seeking new volunteers to serve on the Community Oversight Panel. If you have passionate opinions about Sound Transit, apply! www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-...

POWELL SAYS THREAT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES IS A CONSEQUENCE OF FED'S SETTING INTEREST RATES BASED ON ITS ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST RATHER THAN THE PRESIDENT'S PREFERENCES

Where are you at, @jayapal.house.gov ?

Let's do this at SEA! Even out the playing field and make progress on your mode share goals. @portofseattle.bsky.social @ryancalkins.bsky.social @felleman.bsky.social

Border Patrol agents shot two people in Portland today. FBI issued and then deleted a preliminary statement on the matter uncinditionally defending their racist cowboys

@publicola.bsky.social buried the lede here that Councilmember Saka hired a Policy Director so bad he was forced out of SPD for harassment and lying. publicola.com/2026/01/06/s...

Words cannot describe how awful this regime is. A madman and bloodthirsty band of pirates using military might to topple neighbors with impunity. This government is rogue. It is a disgrace. It is the opposite of everything the constitution was supposed to stand for.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov Emergency! Impeach now, shut down the government until Congress is in control of the military. Enough is enough!

BREAKING: Video shows aircrafts over the sky with explosions in the background amid suspected U.S. airstrikes on Caracas, Venezuela.

With focus on the 9+ helicopters over Caracas as the impacts are happening around them, the timing of the overflight and presumed landing are within seconds of the helo passes. That is not likely by accident, but part of a coordinated part of whatever op is going on tonight. By Kim Høvik on Twitter

It takes time and effort to change fire codes, but if Team @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social pushes, Seattle could revert to the stock NFPA 130 requirements before final design is complete on West Seattle and Ballard Link, saving a bunch of money.

My take is that Canada's superior transit ridership over the US is 50% running more transit service in the suburbs and 50% running more transit service in the suburbs.

It is shocking how bad #transit is in much of the US. Per the FTA NTD, in 2024 Johnson County Transit (in Kansas, population 632,000) regular buses carried an average of 1,000 people per day. This entire system equals a single low performing route on King County Metro. How can it be that low?

As 2025 winds down, here at the top USA transit performers for calendar year 2024, based on full-year average daily ridership from the FTA NTD. This includes all transit modes reported to the FTA: bus, rail, commuter rail, inclined planes, etc. Love to see Honolulu and Las Vegas running laps...

The big 6 legacy transit cities have remained on top since 2002. Seattle has rocketed up to #9 on rail, while Atlanta has slid significantly.

As a Christmastime gift to transit stat nerds, I put together a ranking of rail transit daily ridership for 2024 (from the full-year FTA NTD). This aggregates all rail services in the metro area: light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, plus etc. I will do this again in a few months for 2025.

West Seattle folks: the shelter needs to raise about $50,000 to stay open through the winter. I just donated to help out at: donorbox.org/support-west...

More #Seattle link #transit content, this time from Transit Tangents. youtube.com/watch?v=uJwU...

It's a terrible map, cc: @terriblemapshq.bsky.social

The top five fastest growing U.S. transit agencies with 15 million to 50 million annual trips are: 1. @sound-transit.bsky.social, WA ⬆️ 21% 2. Lynx, FL ⬆️ 10% 3. CATS, NC ⬆️ 9% 4. Metra, IL ⬆️ 9% 5. @valleymetro.org, AZ ⬆️ 8% #TransitWrapped2025 data is fall 2025 to fall 2024.

Capped off my time at Federal Way Link with takeout from Rainier Barbeque maps.app.goo.gl/Q9KLtS1ViQ4s... Followed by an epically fast 4 seat ride home to West Seattle: 106 -> Link -> 50 -> H. I just missed a 50 in Columbia City, but caught it in Sodo thanks to Link.

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:

Mayor Katie Wilson? It's Sure Looking Likely! Wilson surges in the final big batch of ballots that remained uncounted, moving above 50 percent. publicola.com/2025/11/11/m...

Backus has a lot of years of political experience and evidently her judgment is extremely bad. Shocker mynorthwest.com/seattles-mor...

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Seattle deserves a steady, calm, collaborative, competent and considerate leader who won’t back down to corporate interests in @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Seattle deserves someone who over and over again has organized to make Seattle and our region better for everyone.

Great article about the physical challenges with cancelling the 2nd downtown transit tunnel. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/o... Nick Hasbun may be a college student studying government, but he has a great undersranding of rail engineering (i.e. better than ST Board members)

This post is epic. I'd love to see the Seattle version. futureis.la/p/10-million...

Wow! en.traicy.com/posts/202509...

"With Carr, networks now have not an objective regulator, or even someone with a partisan agenda, but something unprecedented in recent history: a mercenary who seems intent on using the regulatory state to serve the personal whims of the president." -- www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Please, please, please, independent journalists (or platform hosts, idk) I want to quickly Apple pay per article. I’ll give you $1-2 to read a single article. It will scale much faster than everybody begging for new subscribers.

!!!! There is a proposal to the Seattle School Board to send a letter to the city about the Comprehensive Plan!!!! #PublicSchoolsAreAnUrbanistIssue www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...

This is exactly where the West Seattle Link Extension is at.

Trevor Reed's Op-Ed in the Urbanist is still the best path forward for Sound Transit #ST3. It will take State Legislative action to free up Sound Transit to deliver. www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/10/o...