we must stop the cars

Flex posts? In my historic district? It’s more likely than you think

We can rebuild it. We have the technology.

In the newest episode of The War on Cars podcast, Vancouver’s ex chief planner makes direct comparisons to Seattle in the way I’ve been longing for 💛

Maybe urbanists should focus on organizing business employees?

Same

Should be even easier to take a bike on the train now! :D

🐬🩵 A beautiful new someone! Hello baby L129! CWR @whaleresearch.bsky.social announced a new cal in L pod, first seen earlier this week. (Report in replies) Super awesome dorsal & saddle patch on this little one. 📷: © Center for Whale Research Photos taken under NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038 #psws

Portland-based architecture firm ZGF agreed to a $100 million contract to design the new ICE & DHS headquarters in Washington DC. Seems like a good reason to avoid doing business with them in future. meltoregon.noblogs.org/zgf-architec...

Drivers are not okay. I tapped on a guy’s window for parking in the bike lane and he followed me for several blocks and threatened to kill me.

Routle - King County Metro 02/18/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/king_county_...

@seattledot.bsky.social @mayorofseattle.bsky.social @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social We voted to change the status quo. When something as unacceptable & avoidable as a pedestrian fatality occurs, we need immediate attention to find out why & action taken to improve safety. You can do this, & you must.

@seattledot.bsky.social what emergency steps will the department take to fix this street today? It’s too late. Something went catastrophically wrong here. We can’t do nothing and just hope nobody else dies

A person driving a car killed her

Every day at least once I find myself thinking: this driver could kill me right now if they’re not paying enough attention and there’s almost nothing I can do about it. People deserve safe streets. I just want to go to work or home or anywhere in Seattle without dying. This fucking sucks.

I often think about how so many cities are AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with networks of pedestrian streets and squares with no cars, or “tamed” cars.

Vision zero is going great

@mayorofseattle.bsky.social, please take vision zero seriously and respond to this as the crisis it is. Emergency measures, now.

FFS, it's beyond time to shut down streets in our urban core.

I love da train

Yo you can board a green 1 or a blue 1

I wish Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland govts would organize an annual conference to share wins & challenges. Every time I visit one of the other two, I leave thinking we could learn a lot from those beautiful cities. Probably some bias from being a resident vs tourist, but I think the point stands.

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

Post a tree you photographed

New link voice?!

Can’t park there mate

The SR509 completion project is going to destroy a lot of forest in SeaTac.

Someone should start a genuine forest advocacy group and call it Car Action Seattle

Oh good, I was worried they would get started on something without adequate consultation with stakeholders. Better to do this for another year.

Huh, neat thing to chance upon.

we need to make this block one car lane wide and buses only. this bike lane is dangerous in its usual state of being way too narrow

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

…and one that I usually can’t ride my bike down. It was gratifying, and liberating. My neighbors refreshed my hope that a better world is possible. Thank you. 💕

Together, we took the streets and rode through Downtown, Pioneer Square, Central District, CID, and Capitol Hill. With the sheer size of the group, we were able to take on Rainier Ave— a street that has claimed the lives of too many of our neighbors from vehicle collisions…

Hey, one of those dots is me! Critical Mass always feels so utopian to me. What if streets were always this safe? What if we looked out for each other? Rejected isolation and fascism in favor of solidarity and collective power? Made space for joy? Celebrated everyone else just for being there?

I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes. For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

“tap on/off for 1 Line” 🤔

God I want to walk around down there so bad

I would be interested in doing STP for the first time but I’m not sure I want to give my money to @wabikes.bsky.social after their embarrassing political endorsements last year

Join La Resistencia on Thursday, January 15, 2025, from 9:30 - 11:30 AM to protest deportations out of King County!

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

The median political position must be that the entire cabinet gets transferred to The Hague on January 20, 2029 to stand trial for their various war crimes and crimes against humanity

It’s just so damn gorgeous

I went to a new cool, scrappy climbing gym today in W Seattle. Unfortunately I cannot recommend biking to it despite it being literally adjacent to the Duwamish trail. Bike access involves crossing this same 5 lane road unprotected, clambering over grassy areas, potentially trespassing.

How many cars do you think will pass by on W Marginal way before I see one going at or below the speed limit?

About 200 people are rallying in downtown Seattle to denounce U.S. military strikes on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president Nicolás Maduro. The attacks occurred overnight and were authorized by U.S. President Donald Trump. Organizers called for a new anti-war movement to oppose the attacks.