This is huge: Katie Wilson's office just announced a significantly expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, after years of the program being stifled under Bruce Harrell. In addition to more weekends, we're getting our long holiday weekends back.

La transformation spectaculaire de l’avenue de Bouvines. Paris, 9 avril.

“By creating a city-owned public bank, Seattle can not only provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also buy its own debt and pay interest to the city instead of private creditors.”

It's amazing that there are people across the city working to pedestrianize streets. It's not just Pike Place. And we are joining forces thanks to @streetsalliance.bsky.social.

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

When NIMBYs say "we don't want apartments/renters in OUR neighborhood," you might ask "weren't they renters once too?" Yes, they were, but they were able to buy a house young, so they think of renting as something only very young, maybe college-age people do as a step to homeownership./1

Limiting car traffic in Pike Place would be such a boon for Seattle, I'm glad to see it has such strong public backing. Visiting Seattle this winter & seeing the new waterfront for the first time, I was blown away by how much its improved since I lived there in the early 2000s.

Bd de Denain, devant la Gare du Nord. Paris, 2 avril.

Look at all these members of the all powerful pedestrian lobby getting in the way of a true Seattleite trying to drive through the middle of Pike Place Market 😢

My car has depression (check engine light is on).

Special interests? You mean overwhelming public support? Scientific polling by Change Research found 81% of Seattle voters support limiting car traffic in Pike Place Market, and 65% would even pay more property taxes to make it happen! Probably even higher now that the pilot has been so successful

“Having a car should not be a requirement to building a life of one’s choosing.” 🚶 🚴‍♀️ 🚌 🚆 -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson at the Sound Transit Crosslake Light Rail Opening

New render: what Pike Place Market could look like by the FIFA Men's World Cup in June. Following the successful 2025 pilot, we're considering new barriers to support a secure experience for people & businesses inside the market: https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/03/26/pike-place-market-barriers/

Some Pike Place merchants are still concerned about 🚗 parking, and use that to justify opposing the pedestrian pilot. But they never question why the attached public parking garage (which the PDA manages) offers cheap all day "early bird" parking, but no discounted/validated 1 hour customer parking?

One of my strongest beliefs is that local elected officials should be expected to robustly review presentation materials ahead of public meetings, and the bulk of those meetings should be spent on follow-up questions and sustained discussion.

The newly elected mayor of Paris celebrated his victory by riding a bike around the city. He ran on: —60,000 new social houses —15 express bus routes —Completing a full bike network —Changing ring road to a blvd —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks We can do better.

Every time I see a before/after picture like this, I think even the “before” is better than what we have for most school streets in Seattle.

Tree Action Seattle could get behind this sort of action if they actually cared about trees

God, this is amazing. I wish a single US city had this vision or courage.

just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival

Bikes existed before cars did. This sort of thing illustrates a really disgusting aspect of these discussions: Aesthetics are given equal weight to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. One should dramatically outweigh the other.

Opponents claim "white lines and flex posts are out of keeping with the historic character of Pioneer Square." My dudes, you let Ford F-250s park on the cobblestones on Occidental. Where do I file a historical preservation complaint about that?

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

When you learn how cheap and easy it is to create safer neighborhoods, all the time and effort we spend doing nothing feels like a waste.

every time a street in nyc becomes more pedestrian-friendly and more parking-hostile, all the local business guys who drive to the stores they own from their homes on long island, in jersey, the mcmansion-y parts of queens, all flip out wondering how people will get there. my man you dont live here!

Agreed. Too many basic local gov expenses are levies, leaving general fund for everything that isn't charismatic enough to win at the ballot. We've got to fix this.

My proposal for making MLK Way safer is that the street on the west side of the tracks (green) should be turned into a linear park from Mount Baker Station to Rainier Beach Station. Turn the east side of the tracks into a two-way street.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

I love historic Pioneer Square.

SCL doesn’t ask the public if we want safe transmission lines. SPU doesn’t ask the public if we want safe watermains. Boeing Field doesn’t ask the public if we want a safe runway. WSDOT doesn’t ask the public if we want safe bridges. Why does SDOT put safe streets up for debate?

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

15-Minute Cities are the best-branded idea in the history of urbanism. There is no mainstream critique. The only opposition comes from a cadre of conspiracy theorists so unhinged, they equate convenient grocery shopping with totalitarian government.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It’s February and there is still no seating at Pike Place on the street, and the nearby seating along the waterfront overlook walk is packed! Big potential to invite locals and tourists to eat and linger IN the market. Keep customers longer = more sales

🚨ALERT🚨 The Pike Place Market Historical Commission is meeting next Wednesday, February 11th at 4:30pm to discuss the pedestrianization pilot. Sign up to speak and tell them you like fewer cars. (The motoring enthusiasts are expected to turn out.) www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

I visited the far off lands of “The Seattle Center” today to see these fabled “retractable bollards.” 🛫🌎🌍🛬 A worker named Ralph who has been there for 25 years said they work great 👍. You can get through with a keycard or call box. Perhaps someday we’ll import this exotic solution to Pike Place 💡

Barely 24 hours later and the Pine & 4th temporary bike safety barrier is already nearly a foot out of position. This is unsustainable. @seattledot.bsky.social can we get another work order to restore it before it becomes a significant mobility obstruction and safety hazard?

If it's not for cars, Seattle seems inclined to have a community group or BIA do the maintenance. But public plazas are public goods, so the city should provide a basic set of services.

December Pedestrianized Pike Place Pilot numbers are in, and drum roll please… 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 Sales are up again! (7.1%). Sales at the market have beat expectations every month of the pilot so far. Take a moment of zen and join me this video stroll down the festive street last month.

Home Zones with real traffic diversion

tip for parent management: my parents were asking me about chatGPT, and have some friends who love it, and none of my attempts to caution them were as successful as just sending them the Wikipedia page for AI hallucinations

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

More good news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.2% in October! Or to quote the PDA's own words the market has had "exceptional sales performance of our tenants." (pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/fd1...) 📈 So far every month of the pedestrianization pilot sales have been up!

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

The chicane on 37th Ave S looks great! I’m looking forward to SDOT adding more features like this around Seattle to slow down cars and discourage cut-through traffic.

Every time the legacy media tries to whip up some suburb-coded bullshit about Mayor Wilson she should pedestrianize another block. Whenever they get really over-the-top: whoops here's a superblock

It’s December 30th. Pike Place Market is packed with people awkwardly standing or sitting on the curb to eat treats from vendors. Removing the street seating for the winter was a mistake. Seattle has a mild climate with days where people want to sit and linger year round

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming