These drumbeat articles and editorial about how Wilson sucks at government that never actually engage in any of the substance of governing from the Seattle Times are going to drive me absolutely crazy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Three (3) sleeps until Bicycle Weekends 💤💭☀️

Is the Pioneer Square Historic District living up to it's charter? Come discuss Friday, 6pm in Occidental Square.

You know it’s going to be a good town hall when this is at the door

Imo it's on safe streets advocates to show how dumb this is. Pick a date. Drive to the market. Turn on your flashers and go shop for just a minute

We couldn't agree with @mayorofseattle.bsky.social more, it's not just about bicycles on "bicycle weekends".

Cleaning up my screenshots folder and found this gem from February 4th 2025. Even *NEXTDOOR* wants more bike weekends

Let's ride 🚲 to Lake Washington with @mayorofseattle.bsky.social! Seattle Central Streets for All is hosting a celebratory ride to Lake Washington for the start of this summer's Bicycle Weekends!

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

One of the truly dumbest realities is that we have open container laws that are effectively unenforced except if you want to go a bar and walk out with a drink to a nearby public table.

Update. The loading zone was removed because the business next to it closed, even though the need for a place for delivery vehicles to move out of the way of traffic remains. DOT said they will "study" the need for a Neighborhood Loading Zone and get back to me. 🤦‍♂️

I want to add that decommissioning roads doesn't mean removing them. It can also mean dead ending them to remove through traffic to extend their life while reducing maintenance needs

Extremely disappointed in CM Rhonda Lewis. Theres nothing equitable about heaping a sales tax on the Rainier Valley and the CID and then explicitly capping our ability to tap those dollars for badly needed road safety projects.

Parking issues like this are going to keep happening as cars have gotten too big for our streets and the city is going to have to come up with a way to deal with this that isn't a fight street-by-street.

"Turn your trip into a hangout" seems like a good potential message for transit agencies to steal

The actual response from urbanists in response to this is that he's doing the thing that conservatives do where they pretend paint for a bus lane cost $10B because the bus lane was part of a complete road utility rebuild and demand transit activists defend the cost.

Tom's Watch bar, opening in a non-historic space in Pioneer Square, is going back to the Pioneer Square preservation board next week for its third meeting. At issue? The exact number of inches that the bar's exterior sign can be to comply with historic district guidelines. Who does this serve?

Seattle is dying. They paved the pop up market to put in a parking lot

Going to have to agree with Wes on this. I don't think this article strikes the right tone.

One of the Democrats’ biggest shortcomings is their failure to take victory laps. They move on to the next thing before voters understand how the ACA will help or is helping them, understand how the IRA expands prescription drug affordability. Most voters are low info. We need to connect the dots.

We didn't understand this when we initially connected with Will, but the cat rides bikes is literal. There will be a bike riding cat at the grand opening of bicycle weekends!

2004 is 12 years ago not a few years. I was just entering high school in 2004 now I'm a whole ass adult with gray hair.

As council organizes support for mayor’s plan, Seattle’s path to ‘Taller, Denser, Faster’ zoning changes isn’t actually that fast

Are you planning to hang out in pioneer square tonight? You should! 6pm Occidental Square. Let's talk about urbanism!

In case you forgot, The Seattle Times Editorial Board never misses an opportunity to come up with some bogus reason using our streets for anything other than driving is a moral failure: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2024/03/26/t...

7 month ago other news outlets in Seattle reported on "secret/exclusive" meetings the former mayor had to remove promised safety upgrades to Lake Washington Blvd. The Seattle Times choose not to report on it. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

Something that's truly infuriating about the LWB discussion is that people that post like this on Nextdoor used to have the mayor on speed dial and the Seattle Times Editorial Board thinks they have a point.

Also not mentioned by the editorial board: under Bruce Harrell, the schedule for Bicycle Weekends were negotiated in a "secret meeting" of the kind they found so objectionable just a few days ago.

Our friends over at Cat Rides NW are organizing a ride from Fremont to the Bicycle Weekend Opening Celebration! everydayrides.com/groups/cat-r...

NEW STORY// Editorial: Seattle Times Called Us 'Builders' Mouthpiece' for Trying to Build a Better City By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

If there was a mistake made on bicycle weekends this year (and I don't think there was) it was announcing the dates far enough in advance for the opposition to make up a narrative about what bicycle weekends are without the ability for supporters to show what they actually are.

disappointed in Joy's concern trolling here too: "...said she is concerned that an expanded program in one location would limit access to the lake to those with physical disabilities and those whose only access to a beach is off the boulevard." The parking lots are still open!

What do you think this hyperlink goes to? Probably an article that focuses on bike advocates right?

Rather than doing a consistent program that is cheaper and easier to run because it requires planning once and implementing many times why don't we do something that rotates around the city and would require a ton more money and be harder to program is pure conservative "good" governance nonsense.

"One group of people"

"The road will be open to all during Seafair, Aug. 1-2." This is literally not true Seafair literally does not let people walk or bike on the boulevard unless they buy tickets

We are achieving levels of bikelash that I didn't even think were possible. Swing gates, which are used on highways across the country to prevent car access when roads are closed due to inclement weather are now apparently part of the bike lobby.

We hope you'll join us and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social on May 23rd.

Friends of the car-ket

I figured out the mystery of Nat Lehmans everyone

I'd really like the city to ask itself how we can take these once weekly institutions and make them every day.

Just go terrible news that despite a pilot removing the left turn signal from Jackson to 4th that's been working great SDOT is going to go back to having this vestigial turn that is terrible and doesn't work for anyone.

King County Assessor candidate (and Shoreline CM) Christopher Roberts throws down the gauntlet on one of Bluesky's favorite niche topics...how golf courses get taxed.

I think it's possible that the Seattle Times published an opinion piece from a fabricated person

Why is Parks using this bike lane as a parking lane?

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The difference a mayor makes is truly incredible. RVSS had to fight so hard to keep a watered down version of this in progress for two years and now it's just... Happening...

Construction of LWB safety improvements (Phase 3) starts this week! This phase includes 6 new speed cushions, paint and flex post curb bulbs at Orcas St, a new sidewalk between Genessee St and LWB on 43rd, and 3 new swing gates to keep the road open for everyone during each weekend this summer!

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.

Super stoked for the FIRST CAR-FREE LK WA BLVD WEEKEND OF THE SEASON