Ride of the valkyries

AND I got an m&m concrete mixer

The project team did a really nice job laying out a holistic comparison of the different alternatives involving, health, safety, affordability, community connectedness etc. Exciting to see the "reroute and reclaim" option scoring so highly. www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

A key finding indicates up to 100 acres of public space currently occupied by highway 99 could be reclaimed. The Reroute + Reclaim option would free up 59 acres for environmental and shoreline restoration, 41 acres for housing, parks, and industry, and leave 17 acres for streets.

Bruh

I was looking at possible commutes to Tacoma and I think it's wild that the Sounder train takes an hour to go 30 miles with only five stops in the middle. If you're doing the reverse Seattle-to-Tacoma commute that's twice as long as driving and about the same cost at $11 for a round trip.

This traffic calming feature near Woodland Park Zoo should be on every long block with a 20mph street. I love it. It forces cars to come to a stop to pass each other.

It's absolutely insane to me that we normalized leaving big ass fucking cars around our cities for hours at a time. Bikes take up less than 3 SQFT when stored but cars need atleast 30-50SQFT... make it make sense.

With *verrrrry* little work we could add a protected 12' bike lane, narrow the lanes to help reduce speeding, and make the pedestrian experience far more pleasant. Win win win.

It will be seven years, on June 24th, that my 20-year-old daughter Robyn lost their life doing bicycle messenger work in New York City, when a for-hire driver blocked the bicycle lane and the speeding distracted driver of a box truck knocked them to the ground and then crushed them into the road.

My daughter decided to stop wearing a helmet, so I showed her how protective it is. I told her to wear it and hit her head on a fence, and she had a great time bashing into things. With this newfound confidence she got on her bike and ran into a railing at full speed with her face, not her helmet.

Wealthy people turn their small neighborhoods into micro-cities to avoid paying local property tax, but shockingly they have mismanaged themselves into bankruptcy.

If this were an ebike, people would be really upset.

Closing the zoo at 1pm for a day-drinking event is kinda lame.

West Seattle lost their Dolly Parton Imagination Library partner several months ago. It's a real shame that kids in this area can no longer get the books. I'm surprised nobody is talking about this.

If an ebike did this, the community would be really upset.

This used to be a fucking double decker highway.

Saw a cop car parked fully blocking the Edgar Martinez Dr to 4th Ave connector sidewalk so people were walking in the road. Absolutely wild. That's not a slow road and people aren't going to be looking out for pedestrians. SPD is so unprofessional.

Bike lanes have a bad habit of disappearing exactly when they’re most needed: at busy intersections. To make this worse, many drivers just ignore them altogether.

Rode to Alki with my daughter today! She's 2.5. It was fun but a bit of a struggle at points. 5 miles each way! I'm trying to get comfortable going further out, rather than longer rides that stay closer to home. No option to bail raises the stakes, this isn't a bike she can nap on easily.

I am sick of everything on aggregate here going the way of entitled homeowners and drivers. They "have" to park on the sidewalk, they "have" to block the (unprotected) bike lane to pick something up, they "have" to have street parking available for their third cars. Meanwhile bikers "have" nothing.

I think Maridee's death this week broke me. Just watched some asshole fast pass a biker on the greenway and blow a stop sign in the process, I began dreaming about chasing him down with a baseball bat.

There's another thing Seattle's playgrounds are lacking that's completely unforgivable: Adequate lighting. In the winter, playgrounds are way too dark for kids to play. I'd love to take the kid to the playground on a rare dry day, but can't because it's after 5 pm. Tennis courts? Fully lit.

Unlike restrooms, there’s a fairly quick and affordable solution: sails! I would love to see @seattleparksandrec.bsky.social pilot retrofitting some of their hottest parks with these as a climate adaptation measure. Very much aligned with @mayorofseattle.bsky.social’s public space priorities.

Neat that @seattledot.bsky.social built this staging area here. They should consider adding a bike lane too!

We've lost five neighbors who were simply walking or riding to traffic violence in West Seattle in the last few years: Robb Mason 🚲 — 2022 Nicholas Wolf 🚶 — 2022 Unknown 🚶 — 2022 (Highland Park Way, March 25) Steve Hulsman 🚲 — 2023 Maridee Bonadea 🚲 — 2026

The city could take emergency action and sign the uphill side of this street no-parking TODAY, or we can do 3 years of outreach and foot-dragging while we wait for the blood spilled to be enough to placate the "process". @seattledot.bsky.social @mayorofseattle.bsky.social the ball's in your court.

The 2020 Harborview expansion plan is in trouble, with costs ballooning from $1.74B to at least $2.25B. Without a plan to get to full funding, the county is currently figuring out how to build a $160M parking garage before the new tower even starts construction. www.theurbanist.org/harborview-e...

“West Laurelhurst Community Council” seems like a more appropriate name for this group.

i continue to feel all kindsa ways about this, in no small part coz i'm a lady of a certain age who rides a bike a lot and lives in west seattle. a friend texted me today coz she was worried this was ME. it was not me and it shouldn't have been this woman. we deserve safe bike infrastructure.

The person killed while biking near the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal Monday has been identified as Maridee Bonadea. She was 76. Story updated: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/06/15/woman-killed-while-biking-near-fauntleroy-ferry-terminal/

For those that don't know, the Fauntleroy Community Association has effectively had a veto power on any transportation or housing projects in southwest Seattle for half a century. They are the ones who prevent new bike infrastructure in Fauntleroy, the type that could've saved a life yesterday.

"Why Are They Like This" #DOOMLOOP #SEATTLE @soseaemerald.bsky.social

This is why I get so angry that SDOT has had a half dozen meetings with a group that vehemently opposes bike lanes on Highland Park Way. This about basic safety, life and death for non-drivers, damn it. Stop going "may we pwease make some safe space for bikers Mr. Driver?" Just do it already.

From West Seattle Blog quoting a reader and witness: “The bicyclist was trapped between the parked cars on Wildwood and the Vashon Trucking truck. They swerved into the parked cars to avoid the truck, but bounced off of them and were crushed by the truck.”

Horrible news. From West Seattle Blog: westseattleblog.com/2026/06/dead...

We deserve save egress within our community as well as to our neighbors in Georgetown, Southpark, downtown. Getting around and out of West Seattle should not feel like you’re in a SAW movie.

This is so, so fucked up. Is PII from this being used for training? What models are they using? How is inherent model bias impacting who gets seen first? Ethical nightmare. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This used to be a double decker highway

I feel like we deserve SDOT leaders who actively and publicly advocate for cyclists and pedestrians. I want people who lose sleep when a pedestrian gets run over and dies and who take immediate action. I want an SDOT where an article like this doesn't get written. That was my expectation.

The transition from the Fauntleroy stroad to Avalon is miserable. Only this side of the road has curb cuts. Can't bike on the other side. So you've got to cross multiple crosswalks to bike lane. The right turn off of Fauntleroy doesn't even have a traffic or pedestrian signal, 100% car priority.

Cyclists "may use full lane" on Ponce but they have to share it with drivers who do this damage. GDOT (this is a state route) says "traffic volume" prohibits protected bike lanes from being built here. So y'all please stop driving on Ponce so GDOT can't use that excuse anymore.

I hope Sound Transit just ignores this.

Urbanist and transit nerds, I've never actually taken the light rail but want to take my daughter to the zoo this afternoon. Can I bring a bike with trailer on the light rail?

Brilliant headline. No notes heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

Ryan played such an important role in covering the King County Transportation District tax that it’s only fair that they should get to pick one project to fund with it.

Can you believe we've normalized operating a multi-ton, high-horsepower machine to carry exactly one person to the garden store just to pick up a plastic bucket lid? I fail to understand how bikes aren't viewed as valid urban transportation by much of society.

This is going to be an absolute shitshow but I'm proud that we won't be part of the embarrassment.