Rep. Reed is kicking off her campaign on Thursday, June 4th 5:30-7:00p at Old Stove Ship Canal. Let’s send Julia back to the state house!

"A pedestrian plaza in the heart of every neighborhood" is starting!!! If you're in West Seattle, drop in and show your support.

What they mean is that they can no longer drive or park in the bike lane because they are physically prevented from doing so. They want to be able to continue to drive and park illegally in painted bike lanes. Same as hating speed cameras which prevented them from speeding without punishment.

Thank you @seattleperson.bsky.social for this great view of our new baby going over the Salmon Bay Bridge for the first time. 💚🤎🤍

NEW STORY// New County Transportation Funding Measure Could Shortchange Seattle By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Why is the Seattle Times even talking about this at all? Because Washington State’s new millionaires tax would fund universal free school meals, among other things. The Times opposes that tax. So they’re going to try and take food away from kids in order to protect the rich from a tax increase.

Ladies and gentlemen! Lift. Your. Cameras! The first new Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle tomorrow at 11:29 am! It will be coming south from Everett attached to the Empire Builder. Track Train #7 at asm.transitdocs.com for precise times. You can share pics/video here! #wsdot #trains #PNW

New subscriptions since this incident have resulted in ~$5,000 in new annual revenue for @theurbanist.org. Thank you, readers — and, I guess, thank you Seattle Times!

If you are a YIMBY, this is your Mecca and you must make the pilgrimage at least once in your life

Someone on my block got a loading zone turned into two parking spaces, so now UPS/FedEx/Amazon/etc. block the bike lane and car traffic, creating massive headaches for everyone. Just another example of how hard it is to make things better on our streets but how easy it is to make things worse.

hmm how many years are we talking about here .... TWO (2) YEARS

The Columbia Gorge on both sides of the river are launching E-bike library pilots and we have employment opportunities for a Washington side resident. Please email [email protected].

"Ballard link isn't just any project," Rinck added. "It's the highest ridership project in all of ST3. We're talking 90,000 to 147,000 people per day. That's not a nice to have. That is an essential for the largest city in Washington State."

Also not mentioned by the editorial board: under Bruce Harrell, the schedule for Bicycle Weekends were negotiated in a "secret meeting" of the kind they found so objectionable just a few days ago.

Good stuff. I just subscribed 👍

The three most common doubts I hear about whether biking can scale in Seattle are: 1) Is it too hilly? 2) Is it too rainy? 3) Are things too far away? Let's assume those are good faith questions and look at each one in turn. 🧵

This is stunning, if true, and at the end, there are easy steps on the actions you can take to get Roberts disbarred. mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/the-twenty...

www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/... Heads up Seattle. This is the person of interest in the murder of the UW student.

people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.

This is what it looks like when you win elections 👇 #Seattle #LWB

Just after 10am today, Seattle Fire responded to a driver hitting someone on a bike at Fremont Ave N and N 101st St. This was a hit-and-run. The person who was hit was transported to the hospital.

ORDINANCE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY SHARED STREETS ARE LEGAL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE THIS HAS BEEN MY DREAM FOR YEARS AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING IF YOU COME HOME FROM EUROPE WISHING WE COULD HAVE WHAT THEY HAVE THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMETIMES YOU WILL SUCCEED

One more complaint for today. This driver turned right onto Holman Road and blasted right through the pedestrian crossing between a playground and Dick's. She should have known not to do this, but also, what an unsafe road design!

My sixth grader was harassed and almost sideswiped on his way home from school today. He was riding on 83rd, a neighborhood yield street between 80th and 85th, both arterials. There is no reason that drivers should be able to use a street like that as a through street. Modal filters NOW.

From the new website Find The Right Bike: Investing a few thousand dollars in a cargo bike to haul kids and gear may seem expensive. But it's a fraction of the cost of doing those tasks by car. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/t... @chiwho.bike @viktorkoves.com @atalliance.bsky.social

If the Burke Gilman Trail were a highway for cars, the Washington State legislature would have widened it already

Katharine Hepburn sets off for home from filming The Lion in Winter (1968) in Bray, Ireland. "I live about an eight minute cycle ride from the studios and I go home by bicycle every night," Hepburn said. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Katharine! May 12 (1907-2003)

ST3 might not have passed without a strong Yes vote in the Ballard area. The 36th District has big voting power. GOP candidate Rob McKenna memorably blamed his 2012 defeat in the governor's race to Jay Inslee on massive Dem turnout in the 36th District.

Sound Transit and its defenders claim that nothing is amiss, Ballard is still going to get rail even if the agency abandons its commitment to build it on a specific timeline, that getting to 100% design is good enough. Ballard residents, who overwhelmingly voted yes on ST3, aren't buying it.

My my! Sound Transit may have met its Waterloo at the Nordic Museum in Ballard tonight. A town hall held by CM Dan Strauss and all three of the 36th District legislators has shown wide, deep anger at ST over their threats to scale back ST3 and indefinitely delay rail to Ballard and other areas. 🧵🇸🇪

Anyone who has ridden a bike in a city knows something else about speeding cars: it doesn't even help! We all end up together at the next red light anyway, but not all of us needed to travel at killing speeds to do it

The meeting is still happening if anyone is in Ballard right now

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Everyone's familiar with the "Seattle Process": long, endless conversations that span years just to get a good thing done. But there's another Seattle Process: local electeds suddenly and rapidly come together to jam through a terrible policy, brooking no opposition. That's what's happening here:

TFW 13 years of advocacy is starting to pay off.

Please call KUOW and tell them that having a contributor, Paul Guppy, that promotes hate speech against the lgbtq community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

And straight cis women as well

"Laurelhurst Helicopter Watch" #doomloop #seattle

Tonight! I’ll be joining some great colleagues and @sound-transit.bsky.social to talk about the future of light rail in Seattle. Join me!

Mothers invented traffic calming.

The Pike Place PDA will be piloting a "sip and stroll" program this summer, letting select businesses sell alcoholic beverages that can be carried around Pike Place during the Market's pedestrianized hours and special events.

Holy shit. The April numbers are in, and people biked and scootered across the Fremont Bridge 103,266 times. That's 8% higher than the previous April record. We are already beyond 320,000 trips only counting winter and early spring. Yet I was told people won't bike in Seattle because it's too rainy!

She's also wrong on the facts. America didn't "choose developers over people," we made it illegal to build housing in the places people want to live.

Lol, finally got around to reading the @seattletimes.com NIMBY editorial, and they lift up "the waterfront" as an example of good process. Which part of the waterfront project? The part where car traffic flow was dictated from on high, and set how much leftover space could be given to people? 1/x

One useful thing we can learn from Trump is to never do one controversial thing at a time. It gives your opposition a chance to focus and organize. Instead, do a zillion controversial things, all at once. Make the other side prioritize.

ICYMI, the Seattle Times called me and The Urbanist "builders' mouthpieces" and flipped out we got invited to a meeting they didn't. Guess we made it! Donate today if you believe in building a better city.

ALL Helicopters should be able to land at Seattle Children's Hospital, NOT a mile away. If South Lake Union can handle the perpetual seaplane noise, Laurelhurst can handle occasional helicopters. But maybe I’m biased:

Well said. The proposal we saw screws Seattle, delays rail to Ballard likely to the *2050s*, closes off any realistic possibility of an ST4 and thus of any new rail lines in the city before the second half of the century. It's an appalling proposal, and our elected leaders should be against it.