There are 12 more days for folks to apply to be a member of the League of American Bicyclists' Board of Directors I always appreciate working with our Board and the direction they provide to the @bikeleague.org Hope we get some great applicants!

"The most volatile of the bunch might just be Claude. First, it tried to quit. Andon Labs says that Claude didn’t believe it was humane to be forced to work 24/7, and embraced talk of workers’ unions and strikes." 🤣🤣🤣

Good morning. I'm trying a new transportation mode to get to a conference in Leavenworth today! The Wenatchee airporter. First step biking to the light rail and taking the train to SeaTac.

I just grabbed these screenshots from the Census in response to somebody suggesting that nearly everyone has to drive in poor northern towns (where I grew up, incidentally). The numbers who don't have cars can be staggering, not that you'd know it from a lot of transport discourse

Anywho with the @princetonupress.bsky.social spring sale it's $16. Get yourself a copy, dog ear pages, write in the margins, mark it up as ya want. Plus its a sweet gift to give to fired up people you know! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

New York City’s delivery minimum wage more than doubled worker earnings without any adverse impact on industry revenues, according to a new report by a tech-aligned think-tank that nonetheless chides policymakers for messing with the industry’s “gig-based” employment model.

Very curious how Metro Flex (Via) will scale for this, as even with current demand, wait times can be excessive and unpredictable. Also, at $30 a ride, covering a distance of 1 or 2 miles, is this really the best investment for our transit system? Game day or any day.

Ahem, Seattle?

Asked a parent in the park if he could practice fast pitch in a different direction, not across the pedestrian loop bc I didn't want to get hit in the head and he accused me of being a "visitor" who had no right to ask him that as, someone "born and raised" here. Because I was wearing this t shirt

For many in Pierce County, bus service ends before their workday does. This measure would change that, running buses earlier & later for a County where most don’t work a 9-5.

Anyone else been noticing these on the buses?

It’s been ten years since we approved the funding for ST3 to build this and other projects. It’s been 30 years since Graham Street and Boeing Access Road stations were first proposed. Sound Transit needs massive reform. We don’t trust them any more and with good reason.

been fantasizing: what if transit riders (anyone who qualifies for Access or has an Orca card they've activated in the last month) got to cast a vote for a rider's advocate on the Sound Transit board...

Our fight to get people with experience relying on transit represented on transit boards is getting real. For years now, people in power have quietly pushed to keep us excluded. That continues as they try to pit disabled community members against each other so that no one gets a voting board seat

Anyone know if this is true that Seattle Parks failed to spend TIB $$$ on Lake Washington Boulevard safety improvements last summer? I couldn't tell enough from the records I got.

The sidewalk is getting fixed (at least part of it until they run out of money, which of course they will before it is actually smooth everywhere.)

The Lady Rainier Statue Is Seattle’s Queen of Public  Transportation www.thestranger.com/city/the-lad... The old statue is oriented to the only future that’s possible—the one that transports people not as individuals but gregariously. A car can only be a sorry couch.

Yes it's true, My book and everything else from Island Press is 50% off right now.

Keep fighting! We can stop this generational mistake that would cut short our dreams of access!

Imagine if we put these sorts of resources into making transit work every day instead of just for sports ball. It is a choice and reflects our values when every other day transit riders don't get this kind on convenience

Advocates are rallying to save two infill light rail stations that serve racially diverse areas: Graham St and Boeing Access Rd. Next opportunity for public comment to Sound Transit is TOMORROW 5/14 at 1:30pm, in-person and remote.

fascinating: Tom Steyer is crediting endowment divestment activists for his progressive turn. (guess what I was doing my final year school? crashing stanford graduate school of business board meetings to confront him about Farallon ethics)

This is what it looks like when you win elections 👇 #Seattle #LWB

To make decisions this momentous, it's fair for the public to demand more transparency from Sound Transit on this. If they cannot demonstrate publicly that the FTA is making these threats, or that our Congressional delegation cannot overcome those threats, Somers' proposal should be rejected.

If we sold the Jackson golf course to housing developers, could that fund the Graham Street station? Kills two birds with one stone: housing near transit and funding for more transit. #WhyDidPinehurstGoFirst

I love how both our Seattle Mayor and King County Exec are normalizing bringing kids to events. It's not easy as a parent to be at community spaces in evening/weekends. Spaces can and must include kids. (Zahilay's toddler just dumped her plate of food and then adorably asked where here food went)

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

latest IBR news: Tolls as high as $4.70 High tolls expected to deter traffic to ~30% lower than today, but new bridge still built to ~twice current size Tons of I-205 diversion expected Only $1.7B raised from these high tolls Even w/tolls, still *$2.5 BILLION* budget gap just for IBR phase 1

"The study’s calculations show that crossings over a tolled bridge could plunge by 50,000 vehicles—more than one-third of the 134,000 cars that officials say cross the I-5 bridge today."

Why do we need a bigger bridge when tolls are going to eliminate a third of the traffic?

Erica's take on AI reaffirms why I'm a Punlicola supporter.

In response to all the parents that sit in their cars with the engines running for 20 minutes waiting for school pickup, I've decided to get a pack of cigarettes and stand in front of the school smoking. Then maybe we can have a serious conversation about air quality.

Interesting report, the data shows that at least for the highway lobby it's not safety first, it's safety third "Safety was the third most prevalent theme" for "how current problems and potential benefits were framed"

SR7 (Pacific Highway) is supposed to get a complete streets treaatment as part of repaving work. Let's make sure that extends beyond a few curb ramp repairs. If you live in Spanaway/Parkland area and want to be involved, let me know and I'll connect you to the community input process.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

When I first started bringing nondrivers to our state legislature transportation committees, I remember, it was a shock for legislators to hear from dozens of people outside the transportation consulting firm lobby

Did you read about the “deferred” subway in Cincinnati. It wasn’t cut. Just deferred.

Not that it would happen in a million years with the current administration, but has anyone crunched the numbers what the gas savings from going back to a 55 mph speed limit would be? You know, Nixon-style? Like, instead of dropping the federal gas tax, which won't save any gas at all?

Looking forward to this book event in #Milwaukee in June! Come hang out with Jonathon Stalls, Kathie Giorgio and me! Register: visionzerosummit.eventbrite.com

What stands out most to me is this part. All Sound Transit is offering is “hope,” not firm commitments. It is entirely reasonable for people to not accept that. Especially given ST’s long track record of broken promises at Graham Street and Boeing Access Road.

Reading Downtown by Robert Fogelson. What's eerie is how the struggles over subway construction in the early 1910s parallel today. Then, inflationary pressure from WWI increased deficits, resulting in the collapse of the political consensus needed to build subways in most American cities...

I wish I could have been there with you all today, but couldn’t attend due to Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) quorum rules. But my commitment to Graham Street Station is unwavering; it would be immensely harmful not to proceed with this station, and I’ll continue to do what I can to get it built.

playing the will I die trying this google streetview game

We're excited by Phase1 Newtown #Exeter. For disabled cyclists using a recumbent cycle, the previous arrangement crossing between parked cars & limited visibilty was unsafe for #disabledcycling. We imagine it would've been so for children too. Hurray for these small changes. #activetravel

I've been dreaming of biking the eastern half of the Palouse Cascades trail for years and as a mothers day gift this year, my family made the ride logistics work!

Join us, Saturday May 23rd, for a Celebratory First Roll and Stroll with special guests @mayorofseattle.bsky.social, @tammymorales.bsky.social, and @nondriver.bsky.social at the Mount Baker Beach House on Lake Washington Boulevard! We can't wait to see you on the boulevard!

This morning!

❤️ @theguardian.com covering nondrivers! "I only visit places that have metro systems that I can use to get around the city as a non-driver."

My latest on how we are using #WeekWithoutDriving to challenge elected officials to ride the transit systems they're in charge of 👇

Wow. 70% of the board members of transit boards in the state of Washington ride transit in the area they oversee only monthly or less frequently. 12% haven't ridden the transit they oversee at all. 32% only ride once a year or less.