Took my new Brooks gear for a spin this week — first time wearing it since visiting their company store. Love that this Seattle brand keeps showing up for the local running community and continues to support Seattle Frontrunners as a sponsor. Feels good to rep local. 🏃‍♂️💙 #RunHappy

Rode the new E Marginal Way S bike lane today. Smooth, protected, and part of the growing dream of riding all the way around Elliott Bay on safe bike infrastructure from Alki to Magnolia. Thx @bestsidecycling.com, @qagggy.bsky.social, @gordonofseattle.bsky.social & Don for a fun afternoon ride.

It has been 12 years since Lance David died biking to work here. I'll be thinking about him when I ride this safer route later today. His tragic death spurred local West Seattle advocates to demand change, and to his credit Mayor Mike McGinn started this project — 3 mayors later it's finally done.

It’s open and it’s awesome! 🍾 Got to check it out on opening day with Don from West Seattle Bike Connections who is one of the original advocates for this project, @bestsidecycling.com, @qagggy.bsky.social , and @joshholland.bsky.social . Go see for yourself!

SIFF and Seattle Central have mutually decided to end our current lease at the Egyptian. We are so grateful to Seattle Central for their partnership over the years, and to all who have come to a film or event at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Read more at siff.info/siffegynews-bsky.

New moon, who this? 🌕 #HarvestMoon

A lawsuit was always the plan for the anti-LGBTQ+ protesters at Cal Anderson. 😮‍💨 We need to make smarter moves against actions like this in the city. More likely coming in the near future. Here's hoping Seattle wins the lawsuit. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Signed out of September in the Olympic National Forest. Hello October, the best month of the year. 🍁

NEW // Sunday Video: CityNerd and Kenji López-Alt Visit Pike Place Market www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/28/s...

Struggling with the idea that “protecting your peace” means shrinking your circle and shutting out new connections. Peace shouldn’t come at the cost of growth.

One of the best lessons I’ve learned: you can’t make everyone happy. Gather input, make a decision, and move on. Don’t spin your wheels endlessly and go nowhere.

Celebrate safer streets in South Seattle this Sunday with @seattledot.bsky.social! Join for the Duwamish Valley Celebration 🎉 📍 Mini Mart City Park, Georgetown 🗓️ Sun, Sept 28 • 12–2 PM Neighbors have been working toward these wins for nearly a decade—celebrate with us!

What if our streets were designed for people, not just cars? Come hang out at Community Crossroads — an evening of food, conversation, and ideas for safer streets. 📅 Wed, Oct 8 • 6–8 PM 📍 Centilia Cultural Center Dinner + childcare included! 🍲👶 Learn more: seattlegreenways.org/community-cr...

If the R Line opens in 2032, it will have taken Seattle 17 years and two entire transportation levies to convert its second busiest bus line into a bus rapid transit corridor.

Just wrapped a video project with CityNerd on Pike Place Market — Seattle’s beating heart and one of the best pedestrian exps in the world. 🌍✨ As a longtime urbanist and foodie, this was a dream collab: cities evolving beyond cars, and a market that feeds both people and culture. 🍎🍞

💔 As a former UW Pagliacci student staffer, this one hits hard. But I get it—students today are prioritizing affordability over brand names. That’s the reality of trying to make it in Seattle right now.

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Seattle's bike network is finally headed south! Thanks to @sngreenways.bsky.social and @seattledot.bsky.social for the awesome work and am glad to finally be able to report on this update youtu.be/IfaC-WTDQI0

People say “Seattle has no culture.” As a Seattle area local, I wonder: where have you been? Festivals, art, concerts, quirky pop-ups—it’s here if you look. This weekend’s Art Marathon turned Downtown into a gallery. Culture isn’t always somewhere far away—sometimes it’s in your backyard. 🌲🎨

10+ years of advocacy paid off! 🚲🎉 Beacon Hill now has new protected bike lanes linking downtown to the South End — a huge win for safer streets, community persistence, and better connections. Big thanks to SDOT + all the neighbors who made this happen. #SeattleBiking #SafeStreets

Missed this late August update: Seattle now has its own Indian Consulate, right in the heart of downtown. 🌲🤝🇮🇳 A big step for connections between Seattle and India. Indian Consulate opens new office in downtown Seattle: nwasianweekly.com/2025/08/indi...

This morning @councilmember-amr.bsky.social called for the council's transportation committee to pursue some type of formal inquiry into the decision to rule out additional bus lanes on Denny Way's most congested blocks to get the Route 8 out of traffic.

One of life’s biggest lessons is learning to be a gracious loser. Like Ash on his Pokémon journey: savor the moments, celebrate the small wins, learn from mistakes, and keep pushing to be your very best. Keep building your team of skills + entering every tourney. One day you’ll get the big W.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Time to look at our urban roads and streets as they are just not working in assisting productive, healthy, humane cities. OR You can sit in the traffic (while being part of the traffic) as life sails on by 👇

After more than a decade of advocacy, new protected bike lanes + pedestrian upgrades are finally open along 15th Ave S & Beacon Ave S! 📖 Read the story of how neighbors + advocates made it happen: www.seattlegreenways.org/get-involved...

The Beacon Hill bike lanes are open! + Community celebration Friday #SEAbikes #Seattle

Started the week in a funk—big projects & some personal uncertainty weighing heavy. What turned it around? A walk, a meal, & the right podcast. This yr keeps reminding me: tough moments don’t last. If you keep moving through the discomfort, brighter days come. Keep going, you’ll get there.

You can’t spew awful words and then act surprised when awful actions follow. Free speech isn’t free of responsibility.

One of the Seattle area’s biggest employers, Microsoft, just announced a return-to-office policy: 3 days a week starting in February. If there was any lingering doubt — we’re in an employer’s job market. www.seattletimes.com/business/mic...

“Seattle has managed to cut car ownership rates and grow carless households even with most streets remaining car-centric. Imagine what would be possible with a more balanced approach with more focus on alternatives.”

The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge!

I finally checked out Funko HQ in Everett on Sat! 🦖 Got “snatched” by Godzilla, explored all the wild pop culture mashups, & left with a Dratini & Green Ranger. North Sound isn’t my usual stomping ground, but I love finding gems like this on road trips. Perfect stop before heading out to camp.

There’s some political conflict brewing in the Seattle region as it becomes apparent that extending light rail in 4 directions to Tacoma, Everett, W Seattle, & Ballard will cost more than expected. Suburban folks want their segments 1st, city officials want theirs 1st. It’s going to be drama…

It’s almost like we opened a huge transit expansion & passed major funding for bus service shortly before 2017

Bike & Scoot Sunday is this weekend at Seward Park from 10 AM – 2 PM. Join @seattledot.bsky.social, Rainier Valley Greenways Safe Streets, and more for a free, family-friendly day of biking, scooting, and rolling on a car-free Lake Washington Boulevard. RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/bike-scoot...

Glad these cameras are turning back on to keep kids safe as they go to school today, but shouldn't we be creating safe streets every day so that kids have the freedom to walk/bike to the park, their friends houses, the library, etc?

Always appreciate Lindblom’s transportation coverage — clear, direct, & not afraid to call out politicians who talk big but offer little detail. Right now, both Harrell & Wilson are still light on specifics when it comes to keeping West Seattle and Ballard Link extns on schedule.

Build the damn trains 🚇 Seattle needs to keep Ballard and West Seattle light rail extensions on track — even as Sound Transit faces a massive funding gap. The region can’t afford to stall on connecting our densest, most transit-ready neighborhoods. www.king5.com/article/news...

Robo-taxis are rolling into Seattle — kind of. 🚖🤖 Waymo is starting with human drivers, with plans to transition to full autonomy in the future. Welcome to Seattle, Waymo. www.seattletimes.com/business/way...

Bruce Harrell, speaking to Sound Transit's projected 20-25% financing shortfall in Ballard, calls delays to light rail construction "unacceptable." "These communities overwhelmingly supported light rail expansion," Harrell says.

It’s healthy to step outside your bubble to learn, to let go of ideas that no longer serve you, and to really listen to others. One of the biggest challenges today is how many of us live in separate realities, sometimes in direct opposition, with no shared facts. marketoonist.com/2025/09/echo...

You can’t “protect your peace” while hurting other people in the process. That’s just personal isolationism while a war rages outside your borders. Real peace takes work. Avoiding hard conversations doesn’t make conflict disappear — it just pushes it down the road, often into something much bigger.

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Ended my summer hiking season by bussing out to Mt. Si with King County Metro’s Trailhead Direct 🚍🏔️ $3 each way gets you from Seattle to the mountains. Fog, peaks, and moody PNW vibes made it perfect. More transit to trails, please. Everyone deserves access to King County’s Big Backyard.

Love the vibe at the U-District Farmers Market—open, airy, and packed with amazing vendors offering top-notch produce and meats. Watching this street transform into a lively public market is such a treat.

Capitol Hill: Can we have a superblock to make people walking safer and create more space for people? SDOT: Sorry, best I can do is a pedestrian refuge island. Capitol Hill:... SDOT: and we're going to remove half of it two weeks after we built it

So Zohran Mamdani’s team decided to do a scavenger hunt on Sunday, one of the best weather days of the year, and figured they could get a few hundred people to spend the day walking and taking buses through NYC, just to have fun and learn the city’s history. They prepared for 500 people to