In the space of two months - March 28 to May 28 - Sound Transit went from the peak of its success (opening the Crosslake Connection) to a stunning act of self destruction (gutting the ST3 plan). I’ve never seen anything like it.

Ballard Link is dead. Long live Ballard Link.

if you came to Bluesky to complain about Seattle bike infrastructure, I hope you have a really bad time.

I’m so fucking angry about this. Trying not to fume until it’s official though. But I did email [email protected] about my concerns. Seattle deserves true IMAX first releases.

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They pulled out an anamorphic lens for an improv game show trailer Absolute mad lads over at @dropout.tv

Why the hell are we running this line exclusively with 2-car trains?

Today was the first major Link expansion opening in the last few years that I’ve missed (today was moving day, plus getting married in a few weeks means I just couldn’t make it work). But I cannot wait to celebrate in my own time and ride this damn train!

I prefer elected officials who celebrate transit expansion

Mayor Katie Wilson, welcome to The War on Cars. @mayorofseattle.bsky.social

Boeing Access Road station is the exact kind of station we should be deferring for cost saving measures. Low ridership, above ground, infill, suburban. The idea that this kind of station could get built instead of Ballard or Alaska Junction or even SLU is insane

Will March 28 be the first time in many years that Sound Transit won’t have a light rail project actively “under construction”?

So there are several timelines where ST3 gets fully built out (forever from now) but the only stations removed (as compared to the original 2016 ballot plan) are ones in Seattle (SLU, Avalon, Midtown) and nothing gets deleted from outside the city. How isn't this bullshit?

It is our job as the public to demand that our elected leaders use every lever they have to build out our light rail system. We do not need to accept these options. The board can simplify station design, identify additional revenue and work towards better solutions. #BuildTheDamnTrains

Is pickleball the new self storage?

Yeah this right here. Short form video has great reach, but it’s disastrous for discourse.

Jesus christ this is fucking deranged and depraved

I don't want to be a vulnerable road user. I just want to get around.

Why do we have these arbitrary cutoffs that only stifle good legislating?

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

It’s absolutely insane that this shit just happens and we are just expected to accept that

This feels like some nightmare where genuinely good advancements for the mobility-disabled aren’t able to be marketed as such because it won’t be profitable unless it’s got widespread adoption.

Is anyone else bothered by this obvious gap in the RapidRide network? Getting from somewhere along the northern leg of the D to anywhere north of 100th is so cumbersome due to that extra transfer to the 40 you have to do.

This is my favorite thing about the Super Bowl win lmao

Watching a replay of the Olympic opening ceremonies and…they used AI slop for an animated “history of the winter games” segment? In the biggest celebration of human achievement - both sport and art - they couldn’t pay an animator for two minutes of content. Incredibly disappointing.

It absolutely sucks that the most surprising thing to me about this is the Times outright calling it racist, rather than something like “what experts say is racist” or “arguably racist.” As the kids say, we’re so cooked.

Tarrant County is the largest red county in the nation. I cannot emphasize enough how big this is. Rehmet winning this race against Wambsganss would be an earthquake of Biblical proportions.

I grew up in this Texas district. To see this kind of outright rejection of the GOP and Trump’s endorsement is shocking, even in the current climate. The fascists are going to fucking lose.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

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I deleted all algorithm-first social apps from my phone this week, including YouTube. That leaves only BlueSky, whose default feed remains a chronological feed of accounts I follow. It’s been refreshing. There’s a clear end point, when I’ve caught up, and can comfortably close it. This app rocks.

This will probably be the most transformative transit project our region will see for the next hundred years. I can’t wait.

Remember how Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill -- and Trump signed it into law -- requiring DOJ to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein by Dec. 19? Still hasn't happened. To the tune of more than 2 million documents still being withheld. Carry on.

today is a big day for people who like buses

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.

Do we really have to deal with 5 more years of Cantwell’s useless, feckless term?

It takes a lot to make me tear up, but dammit, this did the trick.

Dan Strauss, letting me down as usual

@transit.app I’ve had a bug lately where when I need to transfer, it acts as if I’m walking to the transfer point despite already being on the bus connecting me to that point.

Pop the champagne 🍾 🥂

It’s hard to imagine any recent mayor caring enough to issue a statement like this. Katie knows road deaths are preventable and Seattle can do better.

I voted for a mayor that acknowledges the tragedy of these events and will work tirelessly to make them occur less frequently. My heart breaks for Allie and her family. I’m glad that Katie is doing what she can to bring justice.

Imagine if we only closed a roller coaster long enough for a fire truck to hose the blood off the tracks

It is literally life and death if you speed

Finally got my @transit.app wrapped!

I want to be involved but I’m so afraid that my phone number will be sold to every liberal political group this side of the Mississippi and I’ll be bombarded with texts. Anyone know if Wilson’s transition team is safeguarding against this kind of thing?

Yes, the Sound Transit wayfinding is terrible. But I keep seeing that cardinal directions shouldn’t be used either, and I disagree. NYC stations use “uptown/downtown” essentially like cardinal directions and that’s pretty well understood.