Decided to make my way to a new to me coffee shop, Anna's Cafe, one of the corner stores in this neighborhood

For some reason building a mini viaduct to connect the waterfront highway to the city grid didn't solve traffic!

Idk if this whole pedestrianization pilot is working out. There's too many people now. Can we scare some of them away with cars?

Here's the starting gun, you can see the train glide by, unbothered by the two car crashes.

Just watched a car crash

I'm going to race the next 2 line train from the i90 portal to the CID

Speed cameras are infrastructure

When we teach police officers that large and small rules do not apply to them, it directly encourages the disregard for public safety evident in police shootings, violence against protestors, and reckless driving.

Not taking away the driver's license of someone permanently who annihlated an entire family is...I have no words. In a city like SF too where the perpetrator could take public transit. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

This is nuts.

Saw a work truck on the I90 trail today and asked the electrician when we might expect lights on this trail to come back online. He told me end of next week!!!

Can someone please pdr any details about who made this sign.

I'm going to go against the yimby grain here and say that none of this is NIMBY arguments. These are all real concerns.

Hey fellas is it good for the environment to have environmental laws that mean we can't prevent the feds goon squad from setting up camps?

I almost feel compelled to tear this apart, but it's so clearly written by chatGPT that I feel it's barely worth the time it takes to read it much less respond.

It's completely reasonable to want there to be a person on the other side of every PR. People can be held accountable. A robot can't.

Yet again, the park and rides create a horrible environment for anyone that lives near the station because people's expectations about parking are delusional. www.king5.com/article/news...

The graph thing below the text is a palantir screenshot.

I really hope someone who didn't argue that it was good to not vote for Harris runs against Smith.

Some good bike watching today for the parade

4 lanes instead of 6 feels like a big victory--especially since one lane each direction will be bus- only.

The speed limit on highways is 55 or 65 mph in most places and this guy thinks that minivans only accelerate to 15-25 mph.

It would be terrible if "anarchist types" aka the government put up signs that say 20mph and then the drivers have to drive 20mph.

That's why you still have speed cameras and other enforcement mechanisms! The fact that some people will break the law to get around this is not a reason to give up on an intervention that would — again — save thousands of lives every year.

Idk why the homelessness adjacent nonprofit leader that the times just platformed today needs to hear this, but housing first doesn't mean housing only, and "affordable" housing is only the same price as market rates because it's 80% AMI.

This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars. Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed! www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...

“They were too busy being Latino and not running the city,” said the current mayor, Steve Rhodes, adding that race was not something people worried about in Wilder. “I don’t know anyone in town that sees a race,” he said.

We warned you, not like in any sort of useful or meaningful way, just in a general sort of way by posting no step on snek.

Clearly if you want a Seahawks superbowl win you have to elect progressive leaders in Seattle.

I think that safe streets advocacy was right to jettison "enforcement" from the 3 Es because it was being misused by police advocates to argue for targeted jaywalking enforcement instead of actually targeting unsafe driver behavior, but the lack of traffic enforcement needs to be tackled head on.

Even taking the vacancy truther arguments at face value, assuming that all of the 16M vacant homes are habitable and in places that people would be able to live and work. The argument is that 10% vacancy is too much vacancy. When it really would just be a pretty good market for renters.

The only way any of the very tiny commercially zoned corridors in the wealthy lakeview neighborhoods become anything more than they are today is for them to have the density of Columbia City.

This and so many other NIMBY "debates" really boils down to "please let us build the future"

Hey, voters in (most of) Seattle and Vashon: the 100% on-line election for King County Conservation District 3 seat is happening now through Tuesday at 8:00p. If you’re a voter in the dark blue zone of this map, you can read candidate statements and vote here: kingcd.org/about/board-...

China: well this apothecary street has been here since 1649, but we should renovate it for modern storefronts, stormwater systems, and accessibility ramps. What really should be historically preserved is the intangible cultural asset of making those traditional medicines- Bellevue:

Dear Historic Preservationists. Please be serious. These buildings aren't historic.

It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.

I do think that one of the asks for elected officials from advocates should be to dead end certain streets as a response to ICE.

This is effectively a bike ban. It's trying to stuff a clear bike revolution caused by the proliferation of e-bikes back into the bottle.

"Significant inequities" = Rob Saka wanted to take an unsafe left turn

Wow, can't believe that street changes that create 15 minute cities are about creating pro-community pro-social spaces.

Friendly reminder that MLK Way’s dangerous design is a local hazard and regional liability. Maintaining the current design is a choice that city leaders make everyday. Sound Transit will be implementing minor changes (pedestrian gates) later this year, but a full redesign by SDOT is long overdue.

NIMBY proverb

My modest proposal for MLK Jr Way S is reducing it to one lane each direction to make space for bollards to prevent car crashes from impacting the light rail. We can put bike lanes inside those bollards too.

I guess they make the dogwhistles in Bainbridge Island a lot louder so you can hear them over the sound of the foghorns.

This removes the easiest way that random people who want to help can help. It shrinks the pool of people willing to engage with you because there's no simple volunteer on-ramp. The only alternative given is to become an employee of a volunteer group.

Are cars people, this public commenter seems to think so

"I love seeing traffic!" --Dad on a Rad with his kid on the I90 trail when we both stopped at the 23rd ave crossing.

I think Urbanist aligned voices supporting this bill aren't wrong, per se, but they are conflating two things. Ground floor retail, which is generally good and large footprint unpartitioned ground floor retail, which is too big to lease easily.

Beyond being bad for affordability, I think discretionary approvals process are socially/morally destructive for this reason—they turn seemingly normal, well-adjusted people into monsters.