The World Cup is going to be a disaster

Amazing. Look at the layouts.

And will get their way. This country is so dumb

Get rid of design review next. Itll do more than anything will to speed up housing

Can we stop listening to historic preservationists?

Imagine thinking this road needs to be sacrificed for cars and also banning the construction of all those buildings in this shot. That’s American planning for you

Literally the dumbest debate. People complain about traffic and “seismic issues” but are perfectly fine with the port and thousands of jobs, thousands of businesses, and stadiums with thousands of people being here. People just hate housing in this city. publicola.com/2026/02/19/p...

The people compiling these design review documents could be approving building permits instead.

Speaking of other outrageously unpopular programs that could easily be cancelled and everyone would rejoice: Historic preservation

There’s no easier program to kill. It is wildly unpopular with people in the industry, politicians at the state, our mayor and everyone in general public. It makes you wonder why its corpse is still seated at a desk in the city considering the state ordered it to be deleted 2 years ago. Ridiculous

I attended a design review meeting for 1661 E. Olive Way TWO YEARS AGO and SDCI just sent me their final design review report. It is 32 pages of pointless amateur architectural criticism.

Why is anyone still using X?

I always told “zoning was invented to keep homes from pollution” but in practice zoning always does the opposite. Zoning ironically created that problem, which shoves many homes next to polluted, dangerous roads

Are you a college/graduate student who wants to rescue Sound Transit’s expansion by making little decisions that add up to hundreds of millions of dollars saved? Well, now’s your chance! Sound Transit is hiring engineers and construction manager interns. recruiting.ultipro.com/SOU1036SOUND...

These orgs are nothing but pro car NIMBY people hiding behind the veil of legitimacy. Im amazed decision makers play along with this charade

Should have made them wait 18 months to pass design review before building it

Get rid of design review next. The city still doesn’t have a program that complies with state law passed over 2 years ago

The reason this session is short (not making this up) is so eastern side of the state lawmakers can get back home by horseback for the harvest season Our county is riddled with rules preventing any governance

This type of safer, well laid out, more efficient urbanism is illegal to build in the United States

Plans All blocks have sprinklers, but what’s interesting is they also have a *single stair*

Cederhusen, Stockholm. 245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure. Designed by General Architecture. A thread 🧵

This is the third road violence in this neighborhood in 48 hours, and not even 24 hours since someone died trapped under a car blocks away

Crappy building code strikes again

BREAKING: We're staying at 8 homes per lot! Edmonton City Council today voted against reducing the maximum number of homes per lot from 8 to 6 in the RS zone! #yeg #yegcc

how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?

This is a pretty cool townhouse community layout. Just gotta turn the shared driveway into a courtyard. But I dig the way the buildings peak out to the street from the back.

The last fatal collision Seattle Times reported on was someone dying being struck by an Amtrak train on February 11th. Nothing about any vehicles killing anyone last night. The one before that reference a fatal train crash in Spain which is odd because this is under the “Local News: Traffic Lab” tab

It is a truly honorable thing @typewriteralley.bsky.social does for local news to cover these traffic fatalities and collisions when our highly resourced newspaper never will. Ryan goes through a lot posting the death and maiming that goes on by drivers hitting people outside of cars. Support Ryan

So we definitely have to be doing this for west seattle, right?

Heart breaking and horrifying. Someone killed in a crosswalk in the densest neighborhood in the state by a driver taking a right turn not paying attention

I had no idea the Fremont Troll was designed as a “warning against development” and a project designed to clear homeless encampments from under the bridge What a NIMBY icon megaphone.link/CC1975843399

Tickle down “I am losing a lot of money” isn’t a thing.

Why do we give away every square inch of our cities to cars. These 12 cars can just go park somewhere else and nobody would care. Why are we like this!

seattle's version of this:

I'm not letting this go (yes, I'm doing more than posting on bsky)

First thing i notice is the proper placement of bike runnels away from the edge of the stair, something we get wrong all the time here

Design guidelines lead to bad designs and are usually developed by a small group of architects trying to consolidate the entire profession into a 10 page guide. You cant do it and it leads to poor outcomes. The city should get rid of all of them

Design review is the absolute dumbest program any city can have and it’s also the easiest thing to get rid of to speed up housing production

Design Review needs to be burned to the ground, its ashes mixed with kitchen scraps, then composted in a municipal composting facility, compressed under six gigapascals of pressure until it takes the form of a synthetic diamond, and shot into the sun.

And the powers in charge keep trying to hold back housing growth and change. Do they think people will go away? They won’t, you’re just setting up for people to lose in the game of musical chairs. You should be making sure there’s plenty of seats, even if some are empty.

Use every tool in the NIMBY toolbox to block these developments. I want a 5 year process of getting design review approvals as well

And those clogged streets of cars only accounts for about 80,000 car commuters downtown

People overwhelmingly want family sized stacked flats and no matter how much time and money we throw at plans we simply never deliver due to the restrictions of zoning

Jesus Christ this whole system is absolute lunacy

A baby born when this proposal began is now in college and it’s still not approved

Shallower station, less excavation, smaller footprint. I believe it. Which is why a few modifications can go a long way

Fixing a street like Aurora can make a measurable difference in people's lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3de...

Sure your downtown has problems. But at least you’re not getting ready to demolish your iconic City Hall for a billionaire‘s stadium-casino complex. New from me: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nick Suzuki and Team Canada 🇨🇦 on the metro in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

schroedinger's HSR: we're simultaneously too wealthy and too poor to build high speed rail