Lots of Lime scooters in Stocholm & they seem to have much better parking etiquette (as in not activity blocking the sidewalks than Seattle). Is it because there's more bike parking? Being a pedestrian is more normalized? Or does Lime do something better with enforcement?

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When you hold press events that reporters can only get to via cars, you get the types of questions asked by reporters who get to places via a car.

Instead of our usual route on back streets avoiding arterials without bike infrastructure, rode the sidewalks on MLK today and saved 20 minutes of travel time. If there was bike infrastructure in Rainier Valley, I'd probably save an hour every trip away from home.

Los Angeles: where the palm trees are lit better than the bus shelters 🫠

New York’s affordability crisis flows from a deeper problem: essential systems — groceries, energy, Internet, banking, healthcare — have consolidated in the hands of distant corporations. Today, ILSR sent the Mamdani team a memo laying out policies to reclaim local control. ilsr.org/articles/mem...

Paradise Valley, Detroit, seen on a John Lee Hooker album cover that captures the neighborhood before it was demolished for construction of the Chrysler Freeway and “urban renewal” in the 1960s. More info: www.segregationbydesign.com/detroit/hast...

Working to change that.

Started taking the 7 bus downtown to transfer to the 594 before I realized I can actually just ride the light rail south to Federal Way now and take the 574 to Tacoma, saving myself an hour+ of travel time! Yay new light rail stations!

explains a lot when the status quo is working pretty darn well for homeowners 👇 "As of October, the median Seattle-area home had jumped roughly 81% in value since the property was last sold, per Zillow's data." www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Maybe WSDOT should read this as demand for more active transportation infrastructure where none exists...

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With all the road washouts, the state transportation budget is going to be a mess. Maybe it's time we started looking at cutting projects that increase highway capacity and induce more sprawl. Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.

Every evening I look south down Rainier Avenue, standing at Massachusetts waiting for the crosswalk, I see the endless, blinding LEDs staring back at me. Motionless. They're in another traffic jam. Always. The status quo simply doesn't work. And yet our traffic engineers want to further entrench it.

Not discussed, but should be: a lot of stores in Seattle only offer paper bags, and with our rainy climate, it's almost impossible to carry groceries walking or on transit using paper bags. I firmly believe thin plastic bags should be available to anyone who arrives not in a car.

I feel sorry for people who bought Rad Bikes, but I'm honestly not surprised by the way the company is acting. Back in 2021 they threatened to sue me and my employer for something I tweeted that wasn't flattering.

"Tweaking conventional models around the edges won’t get us there fast enough. Experience shows we need to be clearer about the outcomes we’re aiming for." - @chrismccahill.bsky.social

A growing Rainier Valley is incompatible with continued car-centric infrastructure. Our geography stresses this point. If our Electeds are serious about substantially improving life in this city, there is no better place to start than fixing Rainier Avenue for daily life.

If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.

We've got to figure out how to break this self fulfilling doom loop - projected car traffic volumes requiring us to maintain lane capacity for future traffic volumes that materialize because we've maintained lane capacity

Also because they blink for a while, people are trained to kind of ignore them because a large percent of the time the person using it already crossed! So easy to not see or ignore the person waiting at other times, esp with how bad sight lines often are.

couldn't agree more. there's nowhere in Seattle RRFBs are good replacement for a 4-way stop. I especially dislike them where greenway routes cross arterials. Drivers do not yield unless you aggressively step or roll into the road even with lights activated. and sometimes, they don't even stop.

NEW STORY // Op-Ed: It’s Time to Imagine a Safer, More Connected Rainier Avenue Op-Ed by Anna Zivarts (@nondriver.bsky.social) via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/14/o...

I'm leaving for Riga for a week to spend the holidays with extended family, and just encountered this fascinating article on Riga's unsuccessful construction of a metro system (involing competition with Odessa, Latvian nationalism, and fear of a Russian speaking workforce)

Dude, we need to do better about shared scooter and bike parking in Seattle. The status quo of 'leave them wherever you like' is dangerous for and disrespectful to disabled pedestrians. Like here at this major rapid ride stop👇

thank you @guyoron.net! "After I wrote about the abrupt cancellation of Nickelsville’s Brighton Village tiny house shelter this March, the city quickly reversed course. Now I am excited to report that the organization..expects to start housing its first residents in the new year."

Spent the last week talking with Skagit Transit board members and so I've got Skagit transit riders on my mind. Too many evacuation notices assume everyone has a car. Really hope there's enough outreach to bus, paratransit, & tribal transit riders happening right now.

been floating the idea that SDOT should be responsible for contributing to busing costs when the busing is a result of unsafe crossings that SDOT hasn't yet fixed to make it possible for kids to walk to school within the school walk zones. Anyone heard of anything like this in another district?

As of Dec 1, we're now getting charged a 10 percent sales tax on after school activities fees at the public school. Can't we just tax tech worker salaries already?

While we're talking about the public health effects of driving, it's worth mentioning the number of young people *struck* by cars, many of which are transporting other kids to school. In this 26 month period, 44 people age 19 or under were injured when hit by a car, and 8 were seriously wounded.

The big lesson here is that we *should not* be letting teens drive cars, and that transporting them by car is as least as big a threat to young people's health as riding a bicycle, at least on a population basis.

Another confirmed closure (by me) on the trail under the Tukwila International Boulevard bridge

I have such mixed feelings about this article. I agree the low cost pathways are pretty BS. But I guess I grump a bit at the framing that the south end is uniquely feeling the effects of underinvestment in sidewalks. I don't know the answer, but I wish we invested in sidewalks like we did roads.

transit riders on transit boards

If anyone can get a message thru to Seattle Parks, I'm pretty sure it's an ADA violation to keep the South end of the Rainier Beach entrance locked when the north entrance requires either stairs or a super steep hill to access.

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by @nondriver.bsky.social

A shelter at every bus stop

New Katie Wilson interview is full of great quotes 🚌 “I'm a transit rider; I’m a renter” 🚆 “Another big theme is just government that works — and I really think that our public transit system is such a big part of people's daily experience of government.” usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/08/i...

If you are between 11 to 24 years old and are interested in Hawaii’s future in transportation, please consider applying or share to those who may be interested in applying! Application and HYTC site linked below: highways.hidot.hawaii.gov/stories/s/Ha...

The Hawaii Youth Transportation Council are accepting applications through January 31, 2026! As a product of the Navahine Settlement, the Council advises HDOT towards achieving net-zero transportation in Hawaii as well as generally helping to work towards Hawaii’s sustainability goals.

If we want more people who have the choice to drive not to drive, driving has to be the less convenient option. We are so far from this in Seattle unfortunately. Point in case, my trip from Rainier Valley to Northgate every weekend for kid language school...

Residents of Atlanta are almost 3Xs more likely to be killed in traffic than residents of Chicago. This demonstrates how much land use, transit and road design dictate traffic safety outcomes. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/18e9...

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I haven't ridden Metro Flex (our on demand publicly funded Via to transit service) in a bit. When I took it last night, instead of a County-owned, Metro Flex-branded vehicle, I was picked up in personal car. Has the program gone full ride hail? Is this the beginning of the end of it?

Magical moment tonight waiting for 1 bus at 12th & Jackson to go to a Torrent game (yay to another professional women's sports team in Seattle!!!) and Nathan Vass shows up as our driver.

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‼️‼️ "Over the year, bike and scooter share carried about 60% as many trips as the state’s $2.15 billion SR-99 highway tunnel under downtown Seattle. During summer months, that number may have been more like 80%."