i am ABSOLUTELY here for transit-themed victory posts. 🚀

headlines these days will be like “ICE teargassed a nursing home, beat grandma, kept her in a holding cell without water for 3 days, and released her without charges. Some say this is extreme.”

if you weren’t able to attend, a recording of @spottnik.bsky.social‘s really inspiring presentation is available here! #WeekWithoutDriving #Bellingham

Thank you Bellingham Walk & Roll for hosting me to speak about designing our streets for walking, biking, transit and placemaking! #WeekWithoutDriving

Great talk from @spottnik.bsky.social last night to kick off the #weekwithoutDriving. He set a high bar by managing the @seattledot.bsky.social without a personal or company vehicle. Enjoyed the management takeaways from his talk beyond the transportation ones.

Join me Monday Sept 29th at The Uptown Theater in Bellingham for a conversation about walking, biking and transit 🚶‍♀️ 🚴‍♂️ 🚌 🚆 🛴 🦽 Event is organized by Walk & Roll Bellingham as part of #WeekWithoutDriving givebutter.com/xJlqgM

the absurd part of this is that we all know that on-the-ground ICE practices would not change at all, regardless of this ruling.

Jefferies needs to resign as democratic leadership immediately. What the hell are we doing here. jfc.

amazing initial results out of Seattle! love to see pro-city, pro-housing candidates winning 💪

I am SO excited about this! Demand is already off the charts for Cascades with most departures sold out. It’s time for WA, OR, & BC to invest in running frequencies deserving of these state of the art trainsets. @sharonshewmake.bsky.social @juliareedwa.bsky.social @jessdbateman.bsky.social

had a blast at yesterday’s Bellingham build party for these WTA & @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov DIY arrival display boards! huge thanks to @eastsideurbanism.org for the idea, tech, and build guide!

he’s building a $120B American gestapo tasked with attacking, beating, imprisoning, and disappearing brown people. but sure let’s talk about one word he used in the speech celebrating it.

hysteria about gas taxes is so odd. this will cost you $60/year if you drive a ton and get terrible mileage. inflation adjusted, the WA gas tax will have DECREASED by 15% even after the change.

how is it that EVERY road in spokane is 2-3x the size it needs to be? just massive 4 lane, 60’ arterials through every neighborhood with the saddest, crumbling 5’ sidewalks you’ve ever seen.

Starting Sunday your Metro will be operating under automatic mode, the 1st time in 16 yrs! Incredible hard work by the team to make trips safer, more reliable & cost efficient. Expect service adjustments on lines until new schedules are implemented that account for faster trips.

sometimes you need to celebrate the little things. on Saturday, we brought Bellingham neighbors, elected officials, business owners, and advocates together to cut a ribbon to celebrate the impending end of the “pilot” phase of a local multimodal transportation project.

i’m convinced that the only path that doesn’t end in complete destruction of our democracy is for Dems to dramatically escalate in a fashion where retribution by Trump would be politically intolerable. otherwise we’re all just boiled frogs.

dropping like flies. congrats, Bremerton!

YESSSS

Imagine taking high-speed rail to Bellingham and then getting on one of these to get to Friday Harbor.

FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.” #SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸

@caryw.bsky.social 👋 great meeting you today!

i’m stumped. we’ll be in San Francisco in May and want to get around with our 2yr old by ebike. we have an Urban Arrow at home but can’t find anywhere that’ll rent us a cargo bike in the city for 2 days. any leads, bsky friends?

All train trips resume this weekend - restored in only 11 days! Most trains are already running: 503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 511, 516, 517, 518, & 519. Trains 500, 504, 509, and 502 resume on Saturday & Sunday. Most trains are running with fewer available seats so we recommend you book your tix asap.

Very bad news for Amtrak Cascades.

RUMOR- All Amtrak Cascades trains with Horizon equipment will be cancelled indefinitely tomorrow due to equipment maintenance issues.

@juliareedwa.bsky.social Amtrak Cascades service effectively shuttered starting tomorrow?! This can’t be real, can it?

*screaming into the void* THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT ANYWAY

Schumer is a relic playing a long-dead game. Absolutely embarrassing for the Dems. NEW LEADERSHIP NOW.

any Democrat who votes for the CR needs to be immediately removed from office by their voters. absolutely unacceptable.

put together a fun little bus arrival display today with a kit from @eastsideurbanism.org - super cool!

they’re going to do it. it’s going to happen. they’ll burn the whole thing down.

Amtrak Cascades set a new ridership record last year, almost 1 million riders! dailyhive.com/vancouver/am...

This would more than double Amtrak Cascades service, which is one of the highest performing state-supported Amtrak lines in the country. Huge.

All these J6 people getting arrested again are like a freaky-deaky political twist on the Final Destination films

please stop asking “does Trump have the legal authority to do XYZ?!” the guy raised a violent mob to attempt to overturn an election, do you think lack of legal authority is going to stop the White House from doing ANYTHING?

getting the taking heads to argue about whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute is classic Tr*mp playbook: a firestorm about something meaningless while ICE preps mass deportation camps, an exec order purports to rewrite the constitution, and the US isolates itself on the world stage.

@spottnik.bsky.social hey, real question: we’re hiring a new public works director for Bellingham and need a multimodal champion. any tips to help us make sure we find the right person?

As a country we are somehow simultaneously obsessed with counting our steps/tracking fitness and appalled at the idea of walking somewhere 10 minutes away.

land use & transportation & housing & climate policy are all the same thing…

my city is going to miss its 15-year goal to have “12% of trips be by bike by 2030” and pretend we have no idea why, when we’re building this BS… a sharrow on a 40mph road between our two urban cores bc dropping a few parking spaces for a proper bike lane was apparently an unacceptable tradeoff 🤦‍♂️

one of the eternal truths is that people say they love driving, but never love it enough to pay even a small amount for it. if you add back even a tiny fraction of the externalized cost in the form of parking or usage fees/tolls, driving rates plummet.

The city of Bellingham voted Tuesday night to eliminate parking minimums for at least a year. cob.org/news/2025/ci...

we did it, fam! 🚀🚀

Manhattan’s congestion pricing has made the buses faster. Manhattan’s congestion pricing has MADE THE BUSES FASTER.

i swear to god, Florida drivers have all been lobotomized. what IS this.

awesome bill. WA needs this to prevent cities that ban housing production from freeloading on the work being done locally across the state.

@gocaltrain.bsky.social is out here quietly becoming the most impressive & exciting rail system in the country. similar to NYC congestion pricing, CA rail investments are quickly going to shift from ridiculed to envied & emulated.

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades