Yes! And reminder that blinky lights are for emergency vehicles only and you should always use SOLID lights on your bike.

These things are just sitting there with gravity? They're not even bolted down?

Imagine if this got knocked into the vehicle lane. My guess is it would be fixed in 2 hours

Murders per 100k residents: * Houston 19.0 * Dallas 16.6 * San Antonio 15.9 * Ft. Worth 10.8 * NYC 4.6

🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode. Pedal to the floor.

West Seattle bike commuters: The off-street trail on Marginal Way is finally open! It truly does make the ride safer and more comfortable, really appreciate all the people that made it happen. Still gotta plug your ears for train horns at Atlantic Street, though.

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Go Mariners! ⚾

The Ballard tunnel nobody is talking about

It's a rainy weekday in October and Pike Place is as busy as any sunny summer weekend. I think the disappearance of non-essential car traffic is a huge help. This setup should be made permanent.

The forecast for NYC on October 18 looks ideal for being outside with your fellow Americans, btw.

No more bridge over nothing in Interbay.

This is huge! Every city should be encouraging more cycling and E-bikes are a great way to get people out there.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

SDOT is officially opening the E Marginal Way bike lanes tomorrow - everything north of S Horton Street. The street won't open to two-way vehicle traffic until next week, so enjoy this weekend.

committed to the bit.

Good natured butt jokes will cure what ails this country.

"According to King County’s Affordable Housing Committee, nearly 43,000 units of permanent supportive housing will be needed to meet demand for that type of facility through 2044. Reaching such a lofty goal stands in stark contrast to the prolonged process that played out in Kenmore and Redmond."

We need to make it easier to build, yes - but we cant do it off the backs of affordable housing. We need both and vilifying MHA doesnt make more housing happen, it just hurts affordable housing! Thanks to the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for publishing me! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/mand...

From @bikeportland.org: Naked bike ride to protest Trump’s invasion set for Sunday bikeportland.org/2025/10/06/n...

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

Kings and emperors but their faces on coins, not presidents.

Do not miss the fact that it is only transit projects getting funding frozen and not highway projects, despite the fact that on pure costs alone, far more FHWA project money is flowing to DBE contractors!

Every bold urban transformation asks a question: what will people remember—the controversy or legacy? Showing great leadership, Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak bet on the latter, replacing a motorway with a waterway. Two decades later, absolutely no one regrets the decision or remembers the controversy.

This is big news: Sound Transit is proposing to launch a new overnight ST Express network, once Federal Way and East Link are both fully operational. There would be three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SeaTac-Seattle, and Redmond-Seattle. Headways are still TBD, but expected to be around 30 min.

NEW STORY // SDOT Backpedals on Plans for Capitol Hill Bus Lane Removal www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/s...

A couple years ago, @henrygrabar.bsky.social wrote about the premium most Americans are willing to pay to live in walkable neighborhoods. It was, at the time, 35-40% -- so on a half million dollar house, a couple hundred grand. This is vitally important. 🧵

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Happy National Coffee Day to all who celebrate. But in downtown Seattle? It’s just another Monday. With more than 80 coffee shops downtown, we’re always brewing.

The mayor's rebuttal

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

More buses to the big parks + major upzones around the big parks = ✌️

NEW // Burien Eyes Rolling Back Zoning Changes in Response to Homeowner Pressure By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/29/b...

Seattle's home price is nearly EIGHT times the median household income. What a dream it would be if homes only cost two years worth of wages still.

The only thing I can think of that unites Texas and California in the movie "Civil War" is the president tried to ban cars. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_W...

Bus lane blocked by kayaks as usual. I guess @seattledot.bsky.social has no interest in enforcing rules here.

Very cool! "Metra will put its prototype Café Car into service this fall, rotating it across most of its busiest lines and stations." www.metra.com/newsroom/met... No word on whether it will include live DJ's, like last June's Morning Coffee Rave. 🚉 ☕️ 🎵 💃🕺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeo...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Bike carrier on Range Rover energy.

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

A detailed article shows that while Los Angeles has a reputation for being opposed to new housing, such as SB79 to allow apartments near transit, there's a significant part of the city around downtown that feels and votes differently.

Grocery shopping on Capitol Hill means the ice cream is locked up, you have to show receipts to an armed man, one exit is permanently temporarily blocked, and, now, you might end up in the middle of an SPD “retail theft operation” www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/09/seat...

We are not guessing about this. There are a metric ton of studies of pilot program and they all show the same thing.

“The Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun space—every day.”

Dad Concerned About The Big One Wants You to Move Back to Tornado Alley: tinyurl.com/52pyvnrr

When they say cars are freedom, they certainly don't mean financial freedom.

2015: Mayor Murray touched the stove with HALA recommendations to eliminate single-family zoning (bonus historical Harrell quote!) 2025: We can build 4-story 12-unit stacked flats in NR zones, 75% more lot coverage, 2X the size, without parking.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."