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This is one of my big fears: a truck comes from behind, should see you, but right hooks you anyway. I have read about the exact situation several times with the same results. I have thankfully only experienced the near miss of cars doing which happens, ALL THE DAMN TIME.

I can’t count the number of issues that wouldn’t be covered or would only after the vote if it weren’t for the work of @typewriteralley.bsky.social. A true Seattle treasure!

Should Seattle sales tax be increased to subsidize wealthy suburban road building? No! But that's what the King County Council is proposing to do this Friday. Tell them to treat Seattle fairly, and not siphon $3 million sales tax for Bellevue etc. Take action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/8415...

Pioneer Square pops off for First Thursday!

The fact it took Sound Transit 8 month of negotiations and a review of the cart engineering to approve a coffee vendor for tell me everything I need to know about why the agency can’t deliver its rail projects. www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-its-ti...

How can we expect folks to not park in the bike lane with @seattleutilities.bsky.social and other agencies doing it themselves?

1000x this. Blue states and cities will lose politically if they can’t win economically. And as of now we largely are losing.

Way to go @cmeddielin.bsky.social for proposing legislation that would remove SEPA appeals to the hearing examiner for adoption development regulations and the comp plan. A small, unflashy, change the will shave 151 days on average in process!

If this passes, it will be because Seattle votes for it. If we don’t get our fair share we should vote no. You shouldn’t get to hate on our city and steal our money at the same time.

Any reason why the Seattle City Council just canceled what looks like every transportation committee meeting for the whole summer? Did Seattle solve transportation? Does Saka need a summer vacation?

@typewriteralley.bsky.social ‘s coverage of Bainbridge Island (and other cities) is a great example of the value of @theurbanist.org. I grew up in Kitsap, but would have no idea what’s going on without their coverage. They’ve changed the game in our region. www.theurbanist.org/bainbridge-i...

@kuow.org I’m unsubscribing from Week in Review and would urge other to as well so long as you continue having Paul Guppy on. Having different view points is great, but I draw the line at “gay people don’t deserve equal rights.”

Can we make a deal with the devil and get the pro-parking/NIMBY folks to start advocating for smaller fire and garbage trucks? The city sure doesn’t listen to safe street advocates on this issue.

I know urbanists love to hate on the new waterfront, but the throng of folks enjoying it last night - watching the sunset, strolling, playing on the swings, using the saunas - didn’t seem concerned. Could it be better? Yup? Is is a huge improvement? 1000%!

100%. This should be a huge Dow scandal. He didn’t shuffle off to retirement. He’s now running a giant agency pumping out piles of money. His legacy of poor oversight and lacks ethics enforcement should be a hot topic for the Sound Transit board.

We were late to the ST 2 party and got to Judkins Park at 2. The train out was still people celebrating. The train home at 5:30 is filled with people going to the game, shopping, just taking the train. It’s amazing how quick people adjust to great transit!

Et tu postal service?

Who wants to take this survey on Renton’s version of Vision Zero that they have just launched! Please please take this survey and mention that you want walkable and rollable neighborhoods love yall

Nothing says Urban Village like 8 stories of building, 6’ of sidewalk, 4’ of plantings, and 6 lanes of Rainier.

So this must be the yea olde bespoke bike rack for Pioneer Square. It really ties the neighborhood together. A modern bike rack would have broken the 1900’s illusion (along with cars, cell phones, stadiums, and the fact I didn’t park a penny farthing.)

Rode around Bainbridge Island today. While they have all sort of concerns about walkable and affordable housing, they are not worried about new waterfront mansions or giant houses replacing forest. In both the later cases every trip will be by car.

Bad cops are expensive.

As many of us watch the Big Game today, I am reminded that in the year of our lord 2022 the NFL had to pay $1 billion to players because it assumed black peoples had lower base IQs than white people when determining brain damage. www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1...

Seattle just dropped the latest corridors, neighborhoods centers, LR, and MR zoning changes. The zoning changes, minor as they are, will eliminate 3 out of 4 departures on a stacked flat building we’re working on. one-seattle-plan-zoning-implementation-seattlecitygis.hub.arcgis.com?utm_medium=e...

All of these environmental groups seem to forget that the alternative to urban growth isn’t no growth, it’s sprawl. Tell me, how bulldozing forest and fields helps orcas, and other plants and animals? How does more driving and more parking lots and more roads help the environment?

The SEPA exemption has saved so much time and money previously waisted on studies that go nowhere and helped get housing built faster. Sign in con to help that crucial reform from being rolled back.

An unprotected bike lane is really just a narrow parking spot.

A car got pulled over for failing to yield to me on my bike with kids using a crosswalk. I was shocked. I think this is the second time I have seen a driver pulled over for anything in 10+ years of living in SE Seattle.

If you want to see less housing built, requiring AC at $5-10k a unit is a great way to do it. This will kill projects at a time when it’s already difficult to build and will result in higher rent for everyone.

$750k for two bathroom stalls at Mt. Baker Playground. This is one reason Seattle can’t have nice things like public bathrooms. You could buy a townhouse and let people use the bathrooms for that much money. www.seattle.gov/parks/about-...

This project has greatly improved my family’s life. I use it nearly every work day to get my kids safely to daycare. It has made it safer to bike and walk to get groceries, coffee, library books, and more.

This seems like such a non-issue. If a logo will help lease space the go for it. I’ll save my outrage for more important things, of which there are many.

Early Sunday morning, a driver struck and killed a 38-year-old named Allie who was biking across Beacon Ave S. The driver fled the scene. As a lifelong cyclist who’s had my share of close calls, my heart goes out to Allie’s family and friends.

So: @theurbanist.org is holding our holiday party next Tuesday, which is also our biggest fundraiser of the year. I'll be there, and if you spring for the VIP ticket you even get to hear me make some remarks about how pivotal Urbanist reporting will be in 2026. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-urbani...

All you paid protesters out there better watch out. Sen. Christian is coming for you this session.

Seattle voters in a nutshell: we need more housing options, but also let’s tax the folks who will provide those options.

My Northwest is doing its best to start blaming Katie Wilson for things happening while Bruce Harrell is still mayor. Can’t wait to see what they say when she’s actually in office.

Fuse can gloat all they want, but Amazon is shipping every job it can to Bellevue (the real HQ2). It’s already down 10k employees in Seattle, up to 14k in Bellevue, and laying the ground work to move a lot more. This means less revenue for Seattle and probable a lot more driving.

A whole lot of Seattle council members are convinced you can’t build on hills. Maybe they should walk around Capitol Hill or Queen Anne sometime.

Guys please come to the comp plan hearing Friday, I’m begging you besties

I was going to post about how amazing it was that I can now ride from Beacon Hill to South Park to Georgetown to downtown almost entirely in PBLs. But instead I’ll post this picture of a guy who smashed into the bike lane seconds after I rolled through:

For some reason @seattledot.bsky.social has geofenced the streets of Yesler Terrace so bike share bikes lose most power just as you hit the hills. Meanwhile the cars are all going 25+. I with SDoT didn’t see bikes as a bigger threat than cars.

Another great parking job by @seattledot.bsky.social, blocking the entire sidewalk next to the light rail station. It’s telling about their priorities.

Overheard on Beacon Hill: “You can’t drive downtown anymore because of all the bike lanes!” and “Bike lanes make it more dangerous for bikers.” Of course said by someone who probably hasn’t rode a bike since they were 7.

We have no trees on our property (our backyard is townhouses) but live on a tree lined street (15th Ave S) and it’s wonderful. We have beautiful trees outside our window and a shady front yard. CM Moore doesn’t know what she’s taking about.

Here is the alternative to urban development. Tree activists trying to stop new infill development aren’t just anti-housing, they’re anti-tree.

What @nondriver.bsky.social said a thousand times over. Let's get rid of the "passing lane." Use it for a bike lane, turn it into parking, fill it with rocks. Let's make it harder to speed along a street that is a light rail corridor and that cuts the Rainier Valley in two.

I just heard @markusja.bsky.social giving a great presentation before the Washington Building Code Council on how to make it cheaper and easier to build middle housing. He did the job they seem unable to do despite being told to by @davina425.bsky.social, @jessdbateman.bsky.social, and others.

SDOT recorded cars going up to 70 mph on Rainier. The solution? Paint and post and flashing beacons. I’m sure that will fix the problem…