When Occidental Ave was pedestrianized in the 1970s, the City Council was one vote short of extending it another block to Yesler Way 😞. 50 years later, it’s time to think big again about pedestrian streets in Pioneer Square and around the city.

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

Cool new evening event series at Pike Place Market! "Beginning Friday, July 24, and continuing the fourth Friday of every month through October, Pike Place Market will debut The Night Shift, a free monthly evening series celebrating local art, music, food, and creativity"

once you understand that tree action Seattle etc. literally only care about keeping the single family neighborhoods that *they live in* exactly the same it’s impossible to unsee. They do not give a shit about orcas, trees, the environment or the health and safety of others. Only themselves.

Lol. @typewriteralley.bsky.social and I drew a bigger crowd for our tour of historic traffic calming in Seattle.

Rerouting and reclaiming SR 99 through South Park would result in an 86% reduction in Pollution Generating Impervious Surfaces, per this report. It really seems like that would help Southern Resident Killer Whales more than keeping housing banned.

I can't believe all these people are in the dangerous street when we could have two cars driving down it at 2 mph instead! did any of these people even buy groceries here? what is Seattle coming to???

"loss of a billionaire" should only be a story if we tax them until they're no longer a billionaire www.geekwire.com/2026/loss-of...

Barcelona has removed 40,000‼️ on-street parking spots in the past 10 years. That is a remarkable 29% of the total.

1/4 of Seattle streets don't have sidewalks and had to be sued into constructing ADA crosswalks

Please fill out this survey (yes, another one) telling SDOT (and consequently the Market leadership) that removing cars from Pike Place Market makes it better for everyone, including the businesses! app.getresponse.com/email_market...

On & on. If you ask self-proclaimed centrists about this, the best you'll get is, "I must tell the truth as I see it, I can't help what other people do with it." But that's kind of bullshit. All of us should be (and are, if we're honest) cognizant of the *predictable consequences of our actions*.

Very cool scene in Pioneer Square that they should do for more local sporting events too!

Reasonably convinced Seattle could leverage the World Cup and record cruise traffic to justify massively expanding pedestrianization downtown. Pedestrian-first areas: packed. Car-first areas: deserted. The retail sales and visitation metrics even suggest this would be a *pro-business* move.

Also, as someone who relied on a food bank for several years, I can tell you that the in-demand items are not 99-cent cans of generic black beans—they're perishable produce and meats, things that logistically can't be stocked in a feel-good free pantry.

We should keep it like this after FIFA is over.

Every suburb survives on subsidies. It is a lifestyle that would be impossible if not for the tax revenue generated by the urban areas suburbanites hate & want to "escape."

It’s good — essential even — to marginalize wrong and bad ideas. The way we get out of this is by pointing out how stupid and evil these inbred troglodytes are, not by feeding their ass-backwards superiority complex.

Apparently, you can have a whole neighborhood of shared streets.

A year after they began limiting car access to Pike Place Market, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t always like this. An absolute no-brainer.

In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.

They screamed that a bike trail would put this waterfront industrial district out of business. Turns out it was the super rich that did them in. Where is the multi-decade environmental lawsuit to stop this?

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

CLAIM: "If you open Pike Place to pedestrians, fewer people visiting the Market will walk through the arcade and spend money at the shops." Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call that one debunked.

As those delays themselves are a “decision” - a decision to delay and to pursue the path of inaction and status quo over action. And inaction can be just as harmful or even more harmful than action, particularly when we are trying to correct the harms of prior bad decisions.

"If there had been an outreach campaign what would you have said?" -Jane C. Hu "Well the fact that there wasn't an outreach campaign is kinda the point" -Glenn Nelson Reality: Here is a timeline of the discussion and outreach on LWB. @citycastseattle.bsky.social

I don’t want to hear another WORD about bikes on Lake Washington Boulevard

Just imagine the two dozen cars that we could have parked here

Weaponizing environmental concerns to prevent people from living in our urban environments isn’t new. It’s deployed by people with resources to restrict access to high opportunity areas. It’s nimbyism. In order to reach our housing goals, our land use processes must stop enabling this behavior.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Seattle could do one street in every neighborhood easily.

I would like to depave the street in front of my house to plant a tree but the tree people in my neighborhood oppose that

Lurking just beneath the surface in Godfrey's appeal is a bog-standard NIMBY belief that building more housing in Seattle won't make housing less expensive. That's the nonsense this all rests on, with a nice "eco-friendly" sheen that has much broader appeal.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Huge turnout for Mayor Katie Wilson cutting the ribbon on the expanded 2026 Lake Washington Boulevard Bike Weekends season. Every weekend through Labor Day is an open street from Mount Baker Beach to Seward Park.

This week marks the return of Open Streets season in Montreal, featuring some of the best pedestrian streets in North America. It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when we prioritize people over automobiles on even just a small fraction of our streets. 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦

Protesters at Mt Baker Beach on opening day for Bicycle Weekends. Their main demand is that it should only be twice a month, not every weekend

"oops our bad guess you have to close down sry bby" should not be an acceptable response from a government agency. It's times like this I'm glad I don't have a bar card because I'd be urging this person to sue SKCPH for shutting them down instead of facilitating compliance.

Seattle won't be a real city until it figures how to loosen its rules on street vendors.

If we're going to have Health Dept Inspectors shutting this stuff down, we should also have Health Dept Advocates who work with businesses to line up with whatever the law requires

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Sad as it is, this is entirely inevitable. If you are a progressive in American politics today, you simply have to price in the relentless opposition of the oligarch media.

Not only does Mexico City protect its bike lanes well with very inexpensive barriers, but they also blink at night to be extra visible. Protected bike lanes don’t have to cost a fortune.

The underlying assumption when we talk about streets is that parking can't be removed, vehicular access is necessary on every block face of every street in both directions, and congestion is always bad. I think DOTs need to interrogate this assumption—or at least say it out loud and justify it.

It's a good morning for some colorful new bike lane barriers in Belltown.

Says the guy who tried to put locally beloved Joe Bar out of business by opening Roy Street Coffee nearby which was just a Starbucks with different decor

‼️Pike Place Pedestrianization Action Alert‼️ the PDA is conducting (another) visitor survey to better understand how locals travel to the Market and how those trends have been affected by the ongoing street pilot. tell 'em! www.pikeplacemarket.org/pike-place-m...

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i think the fact that we are STILL in the position that we, the democratic base, have to convince a bunch of recalcitrant senators to do things like ditch the filibuster, admit DC and PR (if they want it) as states, and, most importantly, reform SCOTUS, identifies all my problems with the party

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?