Outlook for the new year ...

Let's do Seattle next

It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment -- But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution? Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....

"...my bill would establish the “Well Washington Fund” to safeguard state housing, healthcare, and higher education, protecting services such as Medicaid, food stamps, and housing for people with disabilities..." www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

NEW STORY // City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...

If you have the free time to protest against new housing, your life sucks. Get a hobby. Take a ceramics class. Go for a walk. Read a book. Do literally anything else to fill the void in your heart.

I admittedly find Ferguson grating. I can't stand the consultant schtick that tries to brand him as the very serious, adult-in-the-room. Meanwhile his actual actions are head-in-the-sand denial about hard choices or real solutions.

New Post: The Fremont Bridge Should be Car-free seattletransitblog.com/2025/12/22/t...

Rail $395 million Public transit $753 million Debt $1.7 billion Highway upgrades $5.3 billion someone who is good at transportation planning please help me budget this. my state is dying

Is HOV lane enforcement carceral

TALARIS ECODISTRICT

This is what we really need in Neighborhood Residential zones in Seattle. I'm glad all the amendments to the Phase I plan added density and floor area bonuses for stacked flats, but we really need a 6 story height limit. Land is too expensive for an 8- or 9-plex to pencil.

Yes — follow @affordabletalaris.org

Affordable Talaris, a Share The Cities working group, has been demanding change at the Talaris parcel in Laurelhurst to build different & more affordable housing alongside trees, wetland, and a future daylit creek. We are heartened by the news that this parcel may have a different future!

Social Housing at Talaris when?!?!

I know @sharethecities.bsky.social was heavily involved in advocating for Affordable Talaris. Have you seen this? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Is there an opportunity to reopen this advocacy work?

Bad day for infrastructure. Levee failure in Tukwila, Hood Canal Bridge closed due to high winds, Ballard Bridge mechanical issues, I-90 slide near North Bend.

Drivers follow the speed limit on 15th Ave W Challenge (impossible)

Beautiful

Do you think he included the weirdly placed crotch bulge in the genAI prompt?

Dude couldn't care less about Seattle and doesn't actually care about being Mayor for any reason other than the status and influence it personally provides to him. Good riddance, but it also sucks that he's the one at the helm at this moment.

You'd think someone would want to do something about this, maybe launch a campaign with a Vision to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries to Zero.

It's so cool that candidates can simply lie about their positions on the campaign trail

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I need this for Seattle.

This is good news. Scissor stairs allow for a much more efficient floor plate in high rise construction. See attached image for comparison (credit letsgola.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/h...)

Always amazing to me when I look at the One Seattle Comp Plan zoning update map and see swaths of LR1 one block away from planned light rail 🫠 And that's after upzoning.

Seattle should eminent domain Talaris and build a beautiful mini-ecodistrict full of social housing around a daylit Yesler creek just to drive these people specifically insane

Just going to say again that It’ll take a Seattle Public Schools teacher a decade and a doctorate to earn the same salary as a rookie cop! Cool stuff…

I think the orca lady scraped my info from public comment on the comp plan. I just got an action alert email from her to provide additional public comment on the addendum to the EIS.

Meanwhile Seattle has a light rail station that should've opened already, with a freeway lid, and hasn't bothered to upzone it! With no upzoning date set!

Seattle's inability to turn any street into a Christmas Market continues to be an embarrassing missed opportunity (instead we have an walled off little market you have to pay to enter).

Excited to hear that Seattle e-cargobike freight/delivery initiative has launched. Pumped our new mayor will be pre-disposed to wanting it to succeed, Go @seattledot.bsky.social and thank you for your help, @c40cities.bsky.social #ClimateInfluence will be big. sdotblog.seattle.gov/2025/11/20/s...

As the rep for many UW students, I hope @organizewithshaun.bsky.social co-sponsors this bill.

Driving a car creates immense pressure to act selfishly & think in zero-sum terms, while also physically isolating one from the outside world, inhibiting both our ability to empathize with others & our comprehension of speeds and force It promotes & even rewards reckless, nihilistic individualism

The governor needs to read the room. There is NO appetite for budget cuts. Voters want progressive taxation to fund social spending.

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "seattle" (52×) 2. "housing" (39×) 3. "city" (28×) 4. "building" (27×) 5. "harrell" (18×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

My bus driver refuses to open the middle and rear door of my bus to facilitate all door boarding. Riders will line up at the stop ahead of time in anticipation of boarding at those doors, but the driver forces everyone to walk up to the front door.

This is my experience living on Stone Way, so I can only imagine how much worse it is by the interstate. The trickle vents on my window get coated with a thick layer of black grime. I recently moved a piece of furniture from the corner, and the floor behind it was also covered with black grime.

100% true. Every time the alarm goes off in my building, everyone pokes their heads out into the hallway and looks around to see if anyone else is taking it seriously.

This was an awesome experience led by Michael. So much possibility for straw panel building here in Washington!

My kingdom for a bagel shop open on Monday and Tuesday within walking distance of my apartment.

This is tomorrow!