It’s (mostly) open 🎉! Here is what the section of the new east-side trail on Alaskan Way looks like. It’s going to be very useful on days like today when the cruise ship loading/unloading has closed the west side trail.

New @kuow.org article about Vision Zero: www.kuow.org/stories/seat... “We’re still talking about the same streets,” said @streetsalliance.bsky.social Executive Director Gordon Padelford. Namely Rainier Avenue, Aurora Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Lake City Way, and Fourth Ave South”

Men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. Study finds where protected bike lane coverage is higher, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. Where coverage is limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops more sharply. momentummag.com/the-bike-lan...

Jersey City’s pedestrian-only Newark Avenue was thriving tonight because no cars + good weather = good economic and social outcomes.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Seattle's powerful hearing examiner just thwarted a needed grocery store because the city compared the potential environmental impact of a new Winco to the building's previous use as a store—rather than its current "use" as a vacant building. Perverse logic. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

Create streets so beautiful people come to shoot wedding photos and football advertisements.

It’s April and there is still no public seating at Pike Place Market on the street — people are sitting on the curb or standing. Give people a place to sit on the street!

Can you spot the vehicle that offends the aesthetic sensibilities of historic preservationists? If you guessed Cybertruck you would be wrong

At today's Seattle Council transportation committee, SDOT's chief safety officer Venu Nemani is breaking the news that the pedestrian who was hit by a driver in this crash at Rainier and Charles Street last December did pass away.

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

huh, apparently there was a water spout in the sound by seattle a bit ago! www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

NEW: After an anti-bike lane lawsuit sent the Department of Transportation back to the drawing board on 31st Street in Astoria, the agency is responding… with a plan for an even longer bike lane on the deadly corridor.

FWIW, @streetsalliance.bsky.social conducted a review of SDOT's Vision Zero program back in 2022 and it mostly still holds up.

In Mumbai, cycling is both everywhere and nowhere at all. It’s everywhere in the sense that you see it daily: men riding to work, to deliver goods, to keep the city moving. A silent but essential layer of street life and the local economy. Yet, it’s nowhere in the conversations that shape the city.🧵

Speed cameras work. Removing them without building physical safety improvements results in more dangerous streets.

Does anyone know if this "star diverter" in Seattle still exists? I found this photo in a "Traffic Calming: State of the Practice ITE/FHWA, August 1999" but have never seen it in person. Looks really interesting.

For sure. I always tell people the best bike accessory is an Orca card!

Seattle's only annual open streets festival along the South Seattle waterfront will run every single weekend this summer outside of Seafair. Wilson's changes are a bold reversal of her predecessor's scaling back of Bicycle Weekends. Story: www.theurbanist.org/katie-wilson...

A family-friendly Lake Washington Boulevard every weekend from Memorial Day through Labor Day! You absolutely love to see it! 😍 Thank you Mayor Wilson!

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. 🧵

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 incredible news, and it wouldn’t happen without all the support from volunteers, neighbors, advocates like our Accessible Lake WA Blvd Committee, and more. We’ll see you on this wonderful park space this summer!

I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

A family-friendly Lake Washington Boulevard every weekend from Memorial Day through Labor Day! You absolutely love to see it! 😍 Thank you Mayor Wilson!

Exciting! Although limited to just six World Cup game days this summer: www.seattle.gov/transportati... Still, it's a major opportunity for Pioneer Square to reintroduce itself to the region, and think big about the opportunity for permanent pedestrian street improvements!

The Harrell administration squashed plans that would have made MLK Jr Way S safer. Will the Wilson administration revive them? drive.google.com/file/d/1YzeL...

Rainer Valley deserves the full Accessible Mt Baker improvements (www.seattle.gov/documents/De...), but in the meantime, moving the bus station to the same side of the street as the light rail station makes so much sense. It would also open up prime land that could be used for public/social housing.

If a car lane had been dangerously narrowed like this from vegetation a crew would be out there within hours to fix it. I wonder how long this will take.

The University Bridge bike lane needs real protection not just floppy posts.

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.” “Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

Action will be the true test but @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Katie Wilson has demonstrated unwavering support for the Aurora Reimagined Coalition’s goals.

This is "Tiny Point" a popular picnic and paddling location. It's lucky no was hurt. Here's the same location (from the other perspective, notice the evergreen tree) on Google Street View last summer. Your regular reminder that Lake Washington Boulevard IS A PARK. Why do we treat it as a speedway?

This is *fantastic* news.

Nanjing Road pedestrian-only shopping street in Shanghai

Logging off social media for a few days to defrag my mind and focus on family time. Back Monday 👋🏻

Seattle Transportation Levy progress in 2025, by the numbers: + 1,100 trees planted + 20,934 sidewalk spot repairs + 17,276 potholes repaired + 30 Safe Routes to School projects delivered + 4.1 miles of bike lanes upgraded Read the report: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/04/06/s...

Yes we should address climate pollution that is causing more extreme impacts in our state every year, but what if we have to remove a few car parking spaces to make room for bus lanes, bike lanes, or pedestrian corner extensions? Let’s not get hasty here

We’re hiring a housing and cities lead researcher! - Develop and drive pro-housing policy - Focus on state legislation in WA - $106-125k, plus 10% retirement

The Mayor of New York walking to work. You love to see it!

I’m loving 🥰 the new art by #JenniferZwick at the nuevo Bay 4 @kingcountymetro.bsky.social 🚍 shelter stop, located at Judkin’s Park light rail @sound-transit.bsky.social station 🚉.

They need volunteer help to pull this off! Get involved: theaveforall.org/volunteer-2026 (Side note: It warms my heart a little that they use a Pike Place pedestrian pilot image on their website. Good projects inspire other good projects).

I will be following up with @seattledot.bsky.social about this. There is an arterial (S Alaska St) literally one block south, so I'm confused about "the lack of alternative routes in the neighborhood." The Home Zone program has been weakened to just be whatever gets the least push-back. Embarrassing

Our third Youth Transportation Summit is on April 25 from 9 AM to 4 PM. People ages 14-22 have a unique opportunity to connect directly with local government and community leaders. This year's focus is on transportation safety. Register by April 17: https://bit.ly/4e7Vps8

The President just threatened genocide. The Joint Chiefs of Staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore: we must consider all options – including impeachment – to stop Trump.

1) Agree that the property tax lid is suffocating local governments from delivering for the people 2) Disagree about exempting primary homes. Property is wealth. Tax it, but progressively. A TIERED property tax, or a tiered land value tax, would be a great step forward towards a better tax system.

Alki Point Healthy street Saturday evening Freedom to bike in a safe lane #bikejoy

Street trees are an amazing solution to growing our urban tree canopy, fighting heat waves, catching storm water, calming traffic, and making great places to live. But unlike like yard trees, they can’t be used as a convenient excuse by NIMBYs to continue exclusionary housing practices. 🤔

Let’s gooo!