This year I got a new job and started biking to work again! I brought one of my best friends to critical mass! I went bikepacking for the first (and second) time! I played @biketag.bsky.social 6 times! I saw @tfooq.bsky.social speak at a @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social bike ride event!

America has lots of kei trucks, just in airports where stuff needs to be moved efficiently and safely

Rail $395 million Public transit $753 million Debt $1.7 billion Highway upgrades $5.3 billion someone who is good at transportation planning please help me budget this. my state is dying

Kinda ugly IMO but more importantly you simply cannot be saying FEDERAL DTWN as the headsign oh my god

Villainize driving

From a friend a few minutes ago whose family member works at an Amazon warehouse in the south Puget Sound: > [Worker] is currently at work around that area and surprise surprise, Amazon isn't letting anyone evacuate.

How much time in council meetings has been spent talking about graffiti and shoplifting vs traffic safety? The former do not kill constituents like the latter, but I would not be surprised if it was easily twice as much.

milestone: the 1 line is now long enough to connect the atlantic and pacific oceans

Well this is fun - thanks @b3ta newsletter https://wbholland.github.io/trainspose/ #isleofwight

Well this is going to depress me for the rest of the day: transpose an urban network onto any city you like and see how rubbish the investment in public transport outside London is. wbholland.github.io/trainspose/

I wanted to compare what I saw on Seattle's Line 1 LRT with Toronto's Finch LRT. In Seattle, you can see left turning cars waiting while fast-moving transit gets priority. Help TTCriders make it happen in Toronto: www.ttcriders.ca/greenlight 📸: @wk1998.bsky.social / @kevinrupasinghe.bsky.social

Biked through Lander this morning and noticed the grate has been replaced 💚

Bollards: they work™

The 554 is the Seattle #transittrek GOAT, change my mind

The Featured Article of Saturday 29 November 2025 on @wikipedia.org is: KEXP-FM. KEXP-FM is a non-commercial radio station in Seattle, Washington, United States, specializing in indie music programmed by its disc jockeys.

This map could have used some proofing but otherwise hell yeah

The “emergency vehicle access” discourse about shared/ped streets is missing the fact that a legit reason to install bollards is protection from SPD

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Delia Derbyshire – First Last Anything – global webcams – Trainspose – Shakespeare deaths – groovy word game open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

#treebybike is officially a tradition for me

I’d like to apply to join the Seattle Times Editorial Board. I’m not very smart but I assume they consider that a plus.

La Resistencia invites community members to show up and demand that King County Airport's Vision 2045 Airport Plan include the end of ICE deportation flights in our county! #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

Ever wondered what a transit system would look like if you built it somewhere else? No, me neither until now, but this site is great! wbholland.github.io/trainspose/

King County’s new “Stop Hate Hotline” is now live — a non-police option for reporting hate crimes and bias incidents, available 24/7 in 200 languages. Officials say the resource aims to support communities that haven’t always felt safe reporting to law enforcement. Read more: soseaem.org/4pf31LT

Yep, JBLM took about 2/3rds of what was them the Nisqually Reservation, and still stands. The Reservation is now only 1,728 acres after 3,353 were stolen.

@seattledot.bsky.social safety issue on the 6th Ave in SODO: these are the wrong type of storm drain for a bike lane. Bike tires will get stuck in the grate.

The war on cars is purely a defensive one

@kenjennings.bsky.social at SIFF Uptown tonight!

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Important context on this issue: - it is WILDLY expensive in Seattle to follow the rules for a street vendor. it's not just health code. bsky.app/profile/r343... - County health dept wants to focus on helping abide by health rules. These enforcements ain't that. www.thestranger.com/food-issue-2...

Will the mascot be a pirate?

This rules

A new BikeTag has been posted for the Seattle game!

The 2 is using the new bus lane! Thanks @alexis4seattle.bsky.social !

The great Capitol Hill power outage of 2025

rainshine

The Seattle ferry terminal is a great civic work. Would be much better if they took out the video advertising

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

just realized the dril drunk driving tweet also works for regular driving

this supercut of Mayor Bruce Harrell talking over and interrupting his challenger, Katie Wilson, delivers the vibe of the half-hour debate in a concentrated 20-second blast

@jseattle.bsky.social what is going on here?

4. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) by haydenking on iNaturalist

Test Your Wits with The Urbanist Crossword for August 24 www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/24/t...

@councilmember-amr.bsky.social Could we get a Seattle version of WA SB 5903 (21-22) which didn’t make it out of committee? The law would require businesses offering drive-up service to also serve people walking or biking. I feel like this makes sense within city limits especially!

Quiz Your Knowledge with The Urbanist Crossword Puzzle for August 10 www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/10/q...

The model T had a smaller footprint than the modern Prius

You don’t have to feel puzzled by your 2025 primary ballot. The Urbanist has made it easy!

I’m old enough to remember when they used to let people DRIVE through Pike Place Market. Can you even imagine?

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