outright white supremacist rhetoric from this faction who want to be able to mow down more families with their cars. who would've guessed

It’s well past time that every city has a serious conversation about driverless trains. Vancouver has the longest automated elevated train public transit system in the world, & the difference automation makes in operating costs (which are a huge part of the broad costs of public transit) is massive.

you cannot support his work in any way anymore

There’s a lot in this article from @mclindblom.bsky.social that’s new and notable. One of them: the West Seattle line is not actually ready for construction this year. The entire push to gut the ST3 plan has been sold on that basis.

The Lead Paint Theory of Anti-Gentrification holds that preserving neighborhood disamenities like freeways depresses property values, keeping housing affordable. Lead Paint Theorists oppose quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and small businesses like coffee shops or restaurants.

We need CONCRETE!

it's such a grim possibility cause like, what do you even do to prevent it? go back in time two decades and make them build the system robustly the first time? all I can say is thank goodness we're thinking about the long term with our regional transit planning, now, right? ...right?

if the bathrooms are only free to people who have phones, then the bathrooms aren't free

I would say one of my biggest fears is one of these regular system-debilitating Link closures happening on a World Cup match day

Chambers Bay, owned by Pierce County, has public trails that wind through the course. It's also the single best course in the state. We need to look to Scotland, where golf is integrated into the city, and stop fencing off our public golf courses!

I hadn't seen this map before, clearly spelling out the fact that the biggest swaths of Seattle set to be impacted by Washington's transit-oriented development bill (at least when it comes to BRT) are in West Seattle. (Areas in green are already meeting the requirements)

Incredible: Sound Transit is required to issue a SEPA addendum for deferring transit projects. But it doesn't actually address the issue of fewer people being able to access light rail and the environmental effects of that, it's just stuff like this:

One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.

Saw this crumpled-up notice on the street this morning that my neighbors can't have a "STATE LAW - STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS WITHIN CROSSWALK" standee. I always love when one of those is about because pointing at one is just about the only way to get drivers to not run you over sometimes.

Ballard's alleys are all the street you need

the fact that this is how a 7% *decrease* in home price is reported is a reminder that most of our policy environment is oriented towards enriching homeowners

I am generally growing increasing concerned about car culture and car dependency as a tool of *limiting* mobility bsky.app/profile/this...

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😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 AN INTERCONNECTING GRID OF BUS LANES

Sound Transit built massive parking garages, subsidized by all of us, and made them free. Obviously they filled up. Then ST went half measures but STILL priced most spaces at $0. Even this minuscule toll makes car-brained suburbanites incandescent. They want 100% car subsidies, all the time.

Imagine serious big tech antitrust. It would completely transform the world for the better.

Eephus (2024)

it's shocking how searching for this story on twitter involves wading through a bunch of histrionic coverage of her plan to add exactly 1 (one) bus lane.

Glad she is safe.

the last mayor funneled almost a million in public funds to his private mens' club, gave his consultant a no-bid contract, and had his own political strategist on the city payroll for 3 years. but i guess in 2026 Katie Wilson riding the bus is what counts for a big scandal

She is going to lose by a billion

the inverse of seattle which has seen a massive drop in permit applications and new units (tacoma's permitting is also massively easier than seattle)

Let's go even bigger, and make an "international zoning code" for Washington state like Japan. Each city gets 12 zoning districts they can choose from to implement, none may bar small-scale commercial.

Every time I bring this issue up, people make excuses for @seattleparksandrec.bsky.social, like for example, “but the pipes might freeze,” as though a bathroom in a park is some wild frontier technology that nobody has ever figured out before.

I usually ride a regular ol bus and man the trolleybuses are so much quieter. I would love to see more of the system electrified this way

Julio is ridiculous.

Just had the chance to attend a great talk from @nondriver.bsky.social at UW about how cities can better serve nondrivers

Seeing art brut at a tiny venue in walking distance. Sometimes Seattle IS cool

Huge turnout of 250+ people at a rally and march to demand Sound Transit build light rail to Ballard as promised in the voter-approved ST3 ballot measure.

I would die for my country, Ballard

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

oh hey that’s me

At the @saveballardrail.bsky.social rally with @theurbanist.org, @robertcruickshank.com, and @seattlesubway.org. @councilmember-amr.bsky.social led off, followed by @jorgebaron.bsky.social and now @noelframe.bsky.social.

“This is not just about whether we build to Ballard. It’s about whether we keep our promises to working people,” says @councilmember-amr.bsky.social at the #saveballardrail rally

Tons of folks out at the March to save Ballard light rail!

Seeing how cities with unwalkable suburban parking-pit venues are preparing for the World Cup makes me extremely thankful for our actually-in-the-city stadiums.

Update: So far, developers have applied to use this tool for more than 600 units of new housing!

At the 98th annual Blessing of the Fleet

100% true. Seattle subsidizes our two private golf by TENS of millions of dollars a year. Broadmoor pays approximately $50k in taxes. Were it valued like all the land around it, it would pay more than $10 MILLION per year. Even the YACHT CLUB pays more tax bsky.app/profile/poul...

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Dear Ferguson, Call a Special Session, Play Offense, Not Defense, Prevent Austerity By John Burbank (Guest Contributor) via @theurbanist.org

I don’t like Pete or anything but it’s absolutely bizarre that you can write in your book that you discriminated against someone explicitly because of their sexuality alone in your book and not get run out of the Democratic Party.

so we get a millionaires' tax AND we get Culliton v. Chase overturned? hell yeah

The Seattle area should have been building out housing for millions of climate refugees. Instead Seattle City Council (and most other local govts) have dithered to NIMBY lies for decades.

Actual major city? Las Vegas. Any city? Ocala, Florida.