Sara Bliss
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Mom of two in Seattle Walkable communities, biking, transit, parks, housing
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Applications are now open for Washington's e-bike rebate program! Unlike in 2025, you have an entire year to apply, with a new lottery held every month.
ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com
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WSDOT e-bike rebate program
https://ebikerebate.wsdot-sites.com/
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Peter Flax
2 days ago
Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs
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The Torrent are listing their Bluesky account first among their social media accounts. I believe this is a Choice.
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我喜欢电饭煲
3 days ago
I posted about this yesterday but I like how every “fastest growing counties” list is like 1. Gigasprawl, Texas 2. Gigasprawl, Texas 3. Gigasprawl, Arizona 4. link light rail infill TOD, Washington 5. Gigasprawl, Texas
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West Seattle Bike Blob
5 days ago
Last day for West Seattle station area planning survey!
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West Seattle/Delridge Station Area Planning Survey
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8694303/fbd736bb1985
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Here’s the line at International District Station. There was just a cheer, so I think a 2 line train arrived.
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The Urbanist
3 days ago
In one of the biggest applause lines of the morning, Dow said light rail would get to Ballard, West Seattle, Tacoma and Everett (as promised in ST3 ballot measure).
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Ryan Packer
3 days ago
The full 2 Line is OPEN
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Seattle Bike Blog
4 days ago
Why you may want to bike to the crosslake light rail opening Saturday + Group will bike along the new route
#SEAbikes
#Seattle
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Why you may want to bike to the crosslake light rail opening Saturday + Group will bike along the new route
Image from Sound Transit. Surely you would just take the train to the opening of 2-Line service across Lake Washington, right? Well, yeah, that does make some sense. But if you want to catch the ribbon cutting at Judkins Park before the first train, Cascade will be hosting a bike valet. Lime is also offering free rides with the code CROSSLAKE26.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/03/27/why-you-may-want-to-bike-to-the-crosslake-light-rail-opening-saturday-group-will-bike-along-the-new-route/
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It looks like there’s a bike cage at Judkins Park Station! I love the one at Roosevelt.
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Sound Transit
4 days ago
All geared up and ready to roll - see you Saturday, Seattle! Learn more:
https://www.soundtransit.org/crosslake
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
4 days ago
It’s official: we cleaned up London’s air 184 years sooner than predicted. The capital now meets legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution. And you can feel the difference across our city.
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/12/london-san-francisco-and-beijing-achieve-remarkable-reductions-in-air-pollution
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Eastside Urbanism
4 days ago
The light rail across the lake will finally connect TOMORROW! there's gonna be a big party! 🎊✨ Find us at 🚉 South Bellevue station 🚉 9a-2p on 3/28! Write, draw, or sticker on our big poster - we'll scan it later & have an art piece commemorating our collective joy! 🥰
www.meetup.com/eastside-urb...
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Crosslake Connection opening day! ❶🧡❷, Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup
**Find us at Crosslake Connection opening day!** ❶🧡❷ If you haven’t heard, the 2 Line is finally going to cross Lake Washington this Saturday, March 28! This is a big dea
https://www.meetup.com/eastside-urbanism/events/313982742/
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Fuck this guy
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Liora Halperin
5 days ago
Now that my kid is old enough to start biking within the city w/me I’m extra aware that we need traffic calmed neighborhood greenways. A narrow bike lane on an arterial, even if protected, is not going to work for a tiny 7yo on a 16” wheel. Need the width of a nice quiet street.
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Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda
5 days ago
The coalition showed up. 🚆✊ Labor leaders, transit advocates, and community members packed the
@sound-transit.bsky.social
board today with one message: keep building. West Seattle. Ballard. Everett to Tacoma. This region's future is on the tracks – don't stop now.
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Ryan Packer
5 days ago
When I moved to Seattle in 2006, there was no regional rail connection to anywhere. In two days, we open a connection that unites TWO LINES together into a full network. Progress is possible.
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Ryan Packer
5 days ago
Transit advocates have shown up to today's Sound Transit board meeting with a clear message to the board around keeping all ST3 projects on track. King County CM Teresa Mosqueda was among them, along with labor leaders.
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Ellen M.
6 days ago
Dear Eastside friends, I need your lists of favorite shops and restaurants walkable from stations on our new cross-lake connection! If we’re going to invade your fair country from Seattle, where should we go?!
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Ryan Packer
6 days ago
"There is no one walking on [Pike Place] in January or Feburary."
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Governor JB Pritzker
6 days ago
We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people. Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast. Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.
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If anyone lost their phone on 28th Ave in Ballard, I dropped it off at the Ballard Community Center. It was in the street, so I wondered if it fell off a bike.
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The huge parking lot in the middle of my urban neighborhood is FOR SALE! This lot is right next to Larsen’s Bakery, Beast & Cleaver, and Cafe Munir.
redf.in/wQkYOd
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2363 NW 80TH St, Seattle, WA 98117
(NWMLS as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 2363 NW 80TH St, Seattle, WA 98117 ∙ $8,800,000 ∙ MLS# 2496860 ∙ Two assembled parcels available for re-development. Corner lot on 24th Ave NW & NW 8...
https://redf.in/wQkYOd
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I just wrote a
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social
letter: Tell Sound Transit Board to Save ST3. Write one here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
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Tell Sound Transit Board to Save ST3
The Sound Transit Board is discussing proposals for ST3 that fall short by every measure. Their proposals include cancelling the highest projected ridership stations in West Seattle and Ballard, two o...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/save-st3?source=bluesky&
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Qagggy!
8 days ago
SDOT is holding a virtual public drop-in session for the Western-Elliott repave a week from today. Let them know we need protected bike lanes!
www.seattle.gov/transportati...
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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶
9 days ago
So it has begun
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Kent Lind
9 days ago
This is Portland. 1896 cycling map. Published 2 years before the very first car was sold in the US. Cities had bike paths and routes before the car.
bikeportland.org/merch/vintag...
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Brett Hamil
9 days ago
Today's DOOM LOOP for
@soseaemerald.bsky.social
: "Millionaire Tax Refugee" See the whole thing here:
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...
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Does anyone know the bike parking situation at Judkins Park Station? I’m thinking about logistics for attending the celebration next Saturday.
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Miser
10 days ago
Too many people don't believe that a bike makes you immune to traffic. Here's how it works
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Aren’t ICE likely to abandon their TSA duties to tackle and kidnap all the non-white workers at the airport? I expect a lot of workers to call in sick out of realistic fear of danger.
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Ryan Packer
11 days ago
The second round of Washington's e-bike rebate program is opening for applications on March 30.
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Washington’s e-bike rebate program opening second application round March 30 | WSDOT
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Transportation is relaunching the state’s WE-Bike e-bike rebate program on March 30 to help even more travelers get rolling with active transportation.
https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwsdot.wa.gov%2Fabout%2Fnews%2F2026%2Fwashingtons-e-bike-rebate-program-opening-second-application-round-march-30/1/0100019d0c845da3-666f8346-cd90-4d95-9836-e86d3c9dbee8-000000/o_epcfFOBB7rQEqhXUyzfPmnVOMAP0hPwn6pO8tJB9k=449
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Viktor Köves
10 days ago
Gas is up to almost $5 in parts of Chicago, and it's going to get worse. So now is a good time to start looking into a way of carrying people and things that's dramatically cheaper - a cargo ebike! My fuel cost for 2 years was around $6, with only $29 a month total running cost
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Your First EV Could Be A Cargo E-Bike | Viktor Köves
EVs are here, but I want to show you that your first EV could just be a cargo e-bike that can replace most car trips, and save you a boat-load of money!
https://viktorkoves.com/2024/09/21/your-first-ev-could-be-a-cargo-ebike
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Brooke Jarvis
10 days ago
Been a year since I got an electric bike, and I really didn't anticipate how much it would change my relationship to the city. No need to worry about traffic, parking, sweat (Seattle is super hilly), bus schedules. Everything just feels so much closer.
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Streetcrafting
10 days ago
@seattledot.bsky.social
I had to beg your 24 Hour Emergency Response Team to dispatch someone to the Alaskan Way hazard. They drove by, I tried to flag them down, they did a “windshield assessment”, and didn’t bother stopping. Would you disregard drivers going head on into opposing traffic?
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17 days ago
New sign for the side of the cargo bike!
#14cents
#CargoBike
#Ebike
#Gas
#Gasoline
#Fuel
#FossilFuel
#Affordability
#CostOfLiving
#Oil
#OilWar
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EmmanuelSPV
12 days ago
Before (2015) / After (2026) the school street Avenue Lamoricière in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. The school street was done in 2022.
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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck
12 days ago
Build the damn trains!
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L. Harrison Jerome
12 days ago
It will be a generational mistake to forgo Ballard with light rail.
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Ken McLeod
12 days ago
"commuting to school exclusively via sustainable modes as a child—including school bus, walking, biking, and transit—reduces the probability of car dependence in adulthood (defined as using a car for 95% of trips, or more) by over 12% points"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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School commute shapes sustainable transportation across generations - Transportation
Only a small share of Americans choose sustainable modes for everyday transportation. Expanding the use of these modes has proven exceptionally challenging given the stickiness of car dependence. We d...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11116-026-10727-9
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Robert Cruickshank
12 days ago
Sound Transit's consideration of dropping rail to Ballard -- or anywhere else voters approved in ST3 -- is not something we can or should accept. Let's fight back. We can win.
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Gordon Padelford
12 days ago
@councilmember-amr.bsky.social
reminds us that cars are the biggest source of emissions, and asks SDOT whether they are looking at a Capitol Hill superblock. SDOT says… it’s in the mix of options but they don’t have any preconceived notions 😐 Get involved with
@centralseattlestreetsforall.org
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Ryan Packer
12 days ago
It's my birthday! The news doesn't stop for that, so I'm catching up on meetings this morning before heading to the RapidRide I groundbreaking. I did want to make sure you knew that
@theurbanist.org
is having a spring membership drive. You get to turn off ads!!
www.theurbanist.org/membership/
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Membership
Advocacy Journalism for Better Cities
https://www.theurbanist.org/membership/
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Sundance
13 days ago
It’s often discussed how time travelers making small changes can create large ripples. Less discussed is that when you make small changes today, you are paving the ways for others down the road. Be the change you want to see tomorrow
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Qagggy!
13 days ago
I wonder if Sound Transit’s death threats against Ballard light rail will be the moment when transit riders finally get super fucking bitchy with officials at every level of government. (Just like drivers all the time.)
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Cost estimates to build I-5 bridge double; Ferguson brushes figure aside
The project has been in the works for years, amid worries the current bridge could fail in a major earthquake. Staff began recalculating previous estimates last year.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/wa-oregon-scale-back-i-5-bridge-ambitions-as-cost-soars-to-14-4b/
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Ryan Packer
13 days ago
My initial takeaway from today's Sound Transit board retreat:
www.theurbanist.org/sound-transi...
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Sound Transit's Budget-Balancing Ideas All Stop Short of Delivering Rail to Ballard
At a board retreat Wednesday, Sound Transit weighed three cost-cutting approaches that all included deferring light rail stations in Ballard and Interbay to a later date when funding allows. Seattle C...
https://www.theurbanist.org/sound-transit-ideas-stop-short-of-delivering-rail-to-ballard/
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Vote Ron Davis
13 days ago
NUTS. Ballard is a major center for families, and is what voters were promised. -If we hadn't taken so damn long, we'd have saved billions. -If we'd passed the 75 year bond, we'd have a better shot. -If the leg hadn't cut progressive funding for light rail, we'd have billions more.
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Robert Cruickshank
13 days ago
We must not accept this. Don't fight other cities to decide whose line stays and whose gets cut. Instead we need to unite and demand all of ST3 get built ASAP. In 2024 when SPS proposed closing 20 schools, we didn't begin arguing over which schools to close. We said "no" to closing any, and won.
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Robert Cruickshank
13 days ago
They're out to screw Ballard. And unless NW Seattle organizes to push the board and their local and state legislators to stop them, ST will get away with it.
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