MHA in Seattle doesn’t seem to be working right now. This does seem like a good reform @mayorofseattle.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/forseatt...

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

I did not think Vegas transportation could get any dumber. I was wrong! www.casino.org/news/vegas-l...

SUCK IT, HATERS. The Pike Place pedestrian pilot is a success. pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/65a...

Real missed opportunity for a headline here

We're so back

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

This is fine! America’s a big country. The problem is that less than 5% of new housing is built for the 44% who want walkability.

We’ve gotten ourselves into a very perverse situation here. Going back to the drawing board in search of a cheaper alignment would severely delay a train to Ballard. But plowing ahead with the current proposal (truncation)… also doesn’t get us a train to Ballard.

@wsdot.wa.gov lotta single drivers using the Montlake HOV exit tonight and blocking buses. What are we doing here?

This @seattletimes.com article is a shameless attempt to disguise pictures of puppies as “journalism” and… I’m here for it. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is gorgeous. Amazing work: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.

"The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily life." om.co/2026/01/21/v...

Lol @seattletimes.com

How many tiny homes would fit here, I wonder?

TBH this is where treating driving like a civil right ends up.

Tougher to do at Stevens since the tunnel is so deep below the resort. But not impossible! You could run a shuttle bus from either tunnel portal to the resort. ~10 min bus ride. Train could start from the Evergreen State Fairgrounds (or Everett Station).

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Joe Ballard" see the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

This is the crosswalk right outside Kent Des Moines Station (opening Saturday) that allows you to get across State Route 99. See that teeny bus stop off on the distance? That's the closest stop for southbound RapidRide A Line riders.

I cop to being a little smug. Especially soccer practice, where everyone else has a quarter-mile walk from the parking lot and I just roll right up to the turf.

lol at the replies saying it must be a russian bot farm stirring up resentment. have you ever lived in a city where they tried to expand public transportation to a Nice Part of Town

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Which is not only absurd from an energy standpoint (uses more energy than it "saves"), it's poisoned the soil, led to Iowa being #2 in the nation for cancer, and destroyed crop diversity that has created dependency from abroad. 90% of Iowa's food is imported. Iowa!

Father of 2 here: it's completely insane that this guy has six kids and somehow doesn't know that the placenta is located on the exterior of the mother and does not interact with the baby at all.

They were a mere 24 hours away from putting the UN in Philly when Moses stepped in and whipped up the Turtle Bay plan. Just incredible.

There’s a study somewhere showing district councils are more NIMBY than at-large ones and this thread is a vivid example of why.

This article is pretty damning. -Political pressure to maximize units led affordable housing projects to target just below the income thresholds -Market pushed rent growth below expectations, subsidized units face competition -Buildings stuck, lower rents because bankruptcy, so they sit empty

Seattleites love their summers, but it’s a little more complicated for parents. What if we had universal summer care for all children in Seattle? This isn’t a pie in the sky idea. We can make Seattle a great place for working families.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Wake up, babe, new @davidl206.city frequent transit network dropped.

Alaska Airlines safety brochure features a dude in a Sub Pop shirt

Obligatory

Recently did this with my kids as well; all the stuff you remember of the kid flying the spaceship is basically in the last 15 minutes.

very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922

Special shout out to our Canadian brothers and sisters. You answered the call, you deserve better than our current US leadership.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The other fun thing from this era is that everyone had a canonical route to their house they could explain on the phone for visitors. “Exit 24, left at the light, go one mile, 3rd house in the right.”

According to this chart we are currently experiencing the lowest rate of COVID deaths since March 14, 2020. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

No spoilers, but just to say that the fictional heavy rail subways depicted allow movement between cars that proves to be very important. Had they used actual Link Light Rail vehicles… 😬 🍄

This creates some really perverse incentives. Neighborhoods can prevent housing by blocking their local frequent bus line from getting a RapidRide upgrade.

This is a portrait of an unambiguously successful policy ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Restoration of native grassland habitat at solar farms in the midwestern United States triples pollinator supply, increases soil carbon potential by 65%, and improves sediment and water retention. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Need this guy’s take on the walk from the terminal to the station. komonews.com/news/local/i...