Did a handful of laps on the closed-to-cars Maple St Bridge yesterday! Not surprisingly at all, when places are safe to walk and roll on, lots of people do so

Yes yes yes! 🙌 Public space is the antidote to fascist extremism!

The Spokane community is invited to a two-hour "Bike the Bridge” event, a special opportunity to bike, walk, and roll on the Maple Street Bridge before its planned reopening to cars. 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 Date: Thursday, June 25 Time: 4-6 p.m. Location: Maple St. Bridge my.spokanecity.org/news/release...

BIKE THE BRIDGE TOMORROW

Hey imagine if the city were to open this bridge for walking and cycling for a couple hours before it opens to cars Keep your eyes peeled 👀👀👀

"based on the best available data, the model reached a sobering estimate: The shift toward vehicles with higher hoods caused about 3,000 deaths from 2016 to 2024. The estimate is conservative in many ways." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Helluva bike party tonight! Had to have been a couple hundred cyclists out there

so one thing we don't talk enough about is how Tesla's Mad Max FSD mode explicitly ignores speed limits

Today at Terrain's Bazaar I saw one of my favorite sights: FULL BIKE RACKS. We typically enjoy the privilege of parking pretty much wherever we want downtown, but had to park one block away -- the horror!

Walking on the Centennial in Kendall Yards has been much more pleasant this week with the Maple St Bridge closed. It’s easy to forget how loud and polluting roads like this are until they’re suddenly quiet

Now we’re hearing about Emergency Streets in Spokane. They want civil authorities to act like traffic violence is the emergency that it is.

Once again, I feel bad. I really do. But this is the textbook example of a neighborhood that shouldn't exist.

Building on the urban-wildland interface was *maybe* ok in the 20th century. It is definitely not in the 21st.

I am *buzzing* from Summer Parkways. Outstanding turnout tonight! The vibes are immaculate. Goes to show that nearly anyone will ride a bike given safe infrastructure. I saw everyone from infants in strollers and toddlers on strider bikes to 80 year olds on ebikes and *everyone* in between.

Summer fun without cars through parks in #Spokane this evening.

The most wholesome event of the summer, Summer Parkways, is TONIGHT from 6-9pm. Come ride/run/walk/roll four miles of closed streets on the south hill! Visit me at 24th and Post. summerparkways.com

Vance just admitted we are paying Iran $300 BILLION in reparations. After losing the First World War, Germany paid US$5 billion (22 billion gold marks) in contemporary currency. Adjusted for inflation, that was still only around $90-95 billion in today's dollars.

I’m told zoning and planning was invented to keep residents from noxious areas. Here’s where that’s placing 200+ apartments. It’s a 17 minute walk on the shoulder of an Interstate to the train station. Who wouldn’t want to live next to a loud polluted dangerous highway? TOD!

I’ve said for years and I mean it: If I’m ever killed on my bike or as a pedestrian: You are all expected to politicize the shit out of my death. There would be no greater way to honor me than to use my death to prevent more senseless fatalities. You can start doing it before I’m even buried.

Speed caps now. Street legal cars should not be able to go 130 mph. This power can only be used to endanger the public.

Let’s get the word out! LVT reform makes property tax more progressive, and encourages development right where we need it by punishing speculators sitting on urban vacant land. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

The City of Spokane is implementing a new ordinance to combat street racing and excessive speeding after police issued more than 1,000 citations in the last year for drivers traveling more than 20 miles per hour over posted speed limits.

I've moved my bike infrastructure project tracker from Trello to Notion. It's also up-to-date (with the latest info I can find, at least). spokanebikeprojects.notion.site

It is CRAZY to me that there are ten (10!!!) empty lots right behind the most popular development in the city, less than a mile from downtown, a couple blocks from the centennial trail. We sorely need this bill!

I work in tech, and today I had the biggest women-only call I’ve had in my entire career. 7 product designers, PMs, and PMMs. The world feels like shit these days but this was a little glimmer of progress

Excited about this! #LVT Heads and #Georgist friends check it out: A new report shows how shifting incentives through a land value tax in Spokane could encourage homebuilding and discourage in-city vacant land speculation. www.sightline.org/2026/06/03/y... #landvaluetax #WAleg

The City Council of Vancouver, WA yesterday voted 6-0 to adopt their new comprehensive plan and zoning code www.columbian.com/news/2026/ju... To say it's ambitious would be an understatement. 1/5

ICYMI: RANGE Media is looking for a Membership & Marketing Manager! We're looking for someone to help us build the membership and marketing engine that will keep our independent, accountability journalism free to read in the Inland Northwest. Priority deadline is June 12:

What if Spokane’s existing trail network was branded with signage and maps so that someday the network as a whole could be listed as an amenity on Zillow listings and job descriptions? Starting a new side project to do just that. Hit me up if you want to help! www.rangemedia.co/spokane-trai...

Good news for cash-strapped cities hesitant to upzone: "Building homes near existing jobs, stores, and transit saves public dollars, in both up-front infrastucture and ongoing maintenance, and produces more property taxes per acre than local gov'ts can expect from development at the edge of town."

It's Spokane's Summer of Soccer!⚽ To help provide additional outdoor dining opportunities in downtown, the City will provide outdoor café table sets to interested businesses with sufficient space. The Café Table Pilot Program will be available from June to August. my.spokanecity.org/projects/caf...

America doesn’t have a caste system, except that drivers are at the very top and those on bike, on foot, and on transit are dragging along the very bottom. WSDOT has $1.6B to build an urban highway but that’s not enough to cover a ped bridge approach so it’s usable in the snow.

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30B/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $29B and counting It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

Have heard from several folks wanting to be involved with branding our trail system, making maps, etc. If you're interested, hit me up!

why the greater Spokane region needs a branded trail system My latest for RANGE!

City removes 45 parking spots — less than .01% — to improve safety under the viaducts DSP:

In Europe, where they've slowed cars and invested in safe bike infrastructure, e-bike trips increased by 72 percent in 2025 and injuries per million trips fell by 18 percent. The safety problem is not e-bikes. The problem is US roads are unsafe for everyone, particularly people walking and biking.

If only the state legislature would pass laws that actually address safety issues, like the noise camera bill or the BAC bill www.krem.com/article/news...

Whoa whoa whoa is Strava down? How am I supposed to collect my internet points

Quarterly reminder it costs <10c to charge my ebike. Won’t help transport the groceries to the store but will move your body and your groceries home from the store.

From the National Interagency Fire Center. Please prepare now.

Parks board is getting an update on what seems to be this project: New 5 mile trail on the north side of the river in Spokane Valley, from Flora to Plante’s Ferry. Parallels the Centennial, but on the north side of the river rather than south side.

~10,000 rode transit to Bloomsday (if my math is correct!) ~300 rode bikes (270 in the Spokane Bicycle Club corral — which was PACKED — and lots parked in Riverfront corrals) I also saw lots walking from Kendall Yards. A true multimodal day!

Pretty amazing what closing 7.5+ miles of road does for a community. 40,000 runners, hundreds of volunteers, a countless spectators took over the streets. Yay Bloomsday!

Happy Bike Month to all who observe.

The racist Monaghan statue in downtown Spokane has been removed. A win for human rights and a win for our transportation system, as the statue was preventing a very necessary reconfiguration of the traffic island for peds and bikes.

"Quinn-Hurst says that updates along Longfellow Avenue and at 27th Avenue and Hatch Street will be a focus this year, adding traffic circles and speed humps." I thiiiiiink this means quick-build traffic circles, which would be a first for the city that I know of

Announcing The Starless Expanse Bundle, which pairs the critically acclaimed titles Riven & Outer Wilds - two games featuring puzzling worlds that will linger long after the credits roll. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/72377/Starless_Expanse_Bundle/

I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

Spokane has two buildings that feature enormous milk bottles. They’re treasured! If these were proposed today, people would flip