Interesting discussion in Seattle about affordability 👀🏘️

This is a great reason to abolish parking minimum requirements. At the very least, cities shouldn't mandate more pollution.

After this Friday, the high level staff at the City of Bainbridge Island who have left the city in the last six months will officially include: The City Manager The City Attorney The Planning Director The Public Works Director

Seattle's cruise business - the ships plus the flights that bring most of the passengers to Seattle - now generates half as much climate pollution as the entire city of Seattle generates in a year. ☠️See seattlecruisecontrol.org/learn/greenh... for more details!

Nothing but respect for Seattle’s Queen

My ig and bsky are all just full of people outside and in true blue love of the pnw and it’s so beautiful to see 😭🥹

It’s very convenient context to omit that this is the bus route that connects one of the densest residential neighborhoods of Seattle to, among other things, the Space Needle. This isn’t like, a Magnolia resident advocating for the Route 24.

And if Katie Wilson's security team let her regularly ride a bus as mayor. Wouldn't she wait until the end of her term?

I'm glad we're all being honest about the fact that most of the Senate amendments to the Mosquito Fleet Act were poison pills intended to keep new ferry routes off Puget Sound in an attempt to bolster the state's aging, beleaguered, car-oriented ferry system.

July 23 btw

I can’t believe I am so lucky to live in this glorious city with even more glorious friends and get recharged with the sun. What a gem it is to have friends like Ryan!

I took a long-ass bike ride with @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social today and it was so restorative. Friends + bikes is an unprecedented combo.

Pioneer Square business owners kill progress on city climate and mobility goals to preserve their ability to use illegal parking spots

"Public transportation is 95 percent safer than vehicles, and it requires no new technology. Those who want to see safer streets should force Waymo to address the amount of miles it will add to a city’s overall VMT"

FULL EB BAT

NO MORE SLIP LANE

New candidate just dropped

Oh I guess we all had the same idea today lol

Making a Seattle playlist: what would you add? I have F U 8, my my orca card, and Jesus Christ made Seattle Under Protest for the vibe

From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

I don't like the AI memes regardless of who uses them and how because intentionally or unintentionally when you generate that stuff, due to the locations of data centers, what you are engaging in anti-Blackness and actively harming southern Black people who go through & have been through enough.

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

County Assessor, Charged With Stalking, Posts Taunting Pics as Council Again Demands His Resignation Wilson said he can't wear the monitor, which a judge ordered to ensure he complies with a restraining order, because of a condition that requires him to soak his legs. publicola.com/2026/04/20/c...

As predicted, by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social

Can we make totes?

You're telling me I could live somewhere else? But why.

Made one today!

We should replace parking with scooter corrals

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I’m people

Personally cannot wait for Brett's upcoming Urbanist Yaoi

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Denny Way bus lane announcement coming NEXT WEDNESDAY

Couldn't agree more with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to "put a LID on it". Photo from Streets blog NYC: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/c...

I did half of these things yesterday and the rest today and honestly I think living in LQA, working Downtown, and frequenting the waterfront has done wonders for my mental health

First day of cruise ship season too btw

Looking at a bunch of different city maps but they’re all the same map

The City is working with community to plan transportation projects in the neighborhoods surrounding the future Graham station. Your feedback guides future projects in your area! Take our transportation survey by May 17! tinyurl.com/GrahamSurvey2

thanks again joe manchin!

Can you spot the vehicle that offends the aesthetic sensibilities of historic preservationists? If you guessed Cybertruck you would be wrong

I don’t know if I’m posting *through* it, but I’m certainly posting “in, on, or around it,” like those signs that you’ll sometimes see on a dumpster. Which, honestly, is pretty apt, all things considered.

Hey it’s time to take the new Renton Safe Streets Safety Action Plan Survey!!! Please help me make this city better!!! yourvoice.rentonwa.gov/comprehensiv...

Meanwhile Bainbridge Island has already been told the city shouldn't bother applying for transportation grants this year because they don't have a compliant Comp Plan. And one Councilmember just mentioned that she sees it as likely that the Builder's Remedy goes into effect on the island.

the most radical thing a bike can do is make a car payment unnecessary

The way that I can’t wait to bike that stretch of LWB all summer. *chants* Weekend Car Ban! Weekend Car Ban

Naylor on feeling the fan support even while he's been struggling:

The Mayor's Office just confirmed with me that the plan is for Bicycle Weekend closures to start around 7pm Friday night and extend through Monday morning. The days of one sunset ride along an open Lake Washington Boulevard per weekend look to be in the past.

ugh seattle is gorgeous 💓