I'm pretty well negatively polarized towards planted center medians, they seem to be used primarily as a mechanism to preserve car priority roads.

Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at Rainier Ave S and S Cloverdale Street in Rainier Beach.

"The second pedestrian wasn’t struck or injured and the two were reportedly not in a crosswalk, according to police." Distance between crosswalks on this stretch of E Valley Highway: 1.1 miles

To be clear, I support the income tax, lets work to pass it, but if his support is contingent on the legislature getting in line with the rest of his budget it should be a non-starter.

Remembering with longing that in 2021 lake Washington boulevard was open for elves over Christmas!

I really hope that other people see that they shouldn't support a budget that adds 2B in bonded funding for highway expansion, raids the CCA, and cuts everything else, just because Ferguson also promised to consider an income tax.

Sorry, the best we can do is create a public seating area and then yell at people for using it.

Today I learned (in a conversation with @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social about her new bill, HB 2095) that in Washington a driver is currently presumed liable for a collision if they strike a bridge, but not if they strike and harm someone walking on a sidewalk.

Ferguson proposing $3 billion in bonds for highways and vehicle ferries and then proposing to divert hundreds of millions in Climate Commitment Act dollars a few days later is such an incredible one-two punch.

drivers are mad about making Archer safer, and i keep bringing up NYC congestion pricing bc it's a perfect case study a small number of drivers were loud about how it was going to ruin everything. then since it's finished you barely hear anything about it, and when you do it's how well it worked

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

NEW STORY // Ferguson Proposes Borrowing $3 Billion for Highway Maintenance, Ferries Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/22/f...

A lot of people feel combative towards downtown business interests. But I don't feel that way. It really should be a top priority for the city to help downtown thrive. So I also think it's worth highlighting I'm continuously astounded by the small mindedness of downtown lobbying priorities.

I don't really care about signs on buildings, but to include this as part of the activating downtown portfolio instead of part of the more obvious design review repeal/reform portfolio is a choice.

In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse. Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again. www.smdp.com/state-regula...

I would really like the guy who is a public interest lawyer, a job which is generally portable to any major or mid-market metro to stop acting like other people's jobs are equally portable.

When will we take people's safety on our streets seriously?

Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at MLK Jr Way S and S Myrtle Street, at the north end of Othello Station.

Now we are learning that it wasn't even one driver that hit the killed trooper, it was *two* drivers. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

We are especially interested in low cost high impact things that could be rolled out as micro-projects to make sure this money has the greatest impact. $2M seems like a lot of money, but as we've seen with Rob Saka's death triangle, it's easy to spend $2M on a single project that makes things worse.

@jrock08.bsky.social and I are scoping out a Community Visioning Social for D2 District Project Funds! Our goal is to help build a list of candidate projects for @cmeddielin.bsky.social to consider forwarding to SDOT in late March.

The Port needs to get it's shit together and start taking the access from the light rail seriously. They are really spending $5B to upgrade and ignoring the ground transportation option that actually scales. www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...

Refusing to do the necessary work to make our transportation system safe for everyone means continuing to put our first responders in harm's way. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...

When people that already live with a roommate or family stop being able to afford whatever informal arrangement they've made they do often end up homeless, and building more homes can shift where the informal housing market starts so that fewer people are on the cusp.

I keep going back to Bob Ferguson's press conference yesterday. No mention of making safety investments to prevent wholly preventable road deaths. No mention of people who don't drive places, no mention of public transit. We've gone backwards. tvw.org/video/govern...

I love the moved to Issaquah for easy access, by car, to Seattle one. Yeah, and thousands of other people do the same, and it’s not traffic free anymore. Is this a surprise?

Look I'm serious if my parents offered this up as an anecdote in a conversation I'd be seriously thinking about how to politely take away their car keys.

The quotes keep saying "investment" but the roi on these "investments" is negative.

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/some... Did some quick googling to learn more about the people the Seattle Times published and from what I can tell all of these people are retired or retirement age In a city where the median resident is 35 years old.

This editorial supposedly from the Denver gazette editorial board has strong "I feel you should be aware some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters" energy.

Ngl have seen this in my own safe streets advocacy.

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

NIMBY here being honest that he has no legitimate criticisms and just wants other people to invent a legal facade for him to hide behind

A hill I'll die on is that "Tactical Urbanism" isn't what a city does, what they are doing is a low cost pilot. And it's not even really low cost because labor is expensive, so it's really just a cheap (as in tacky) project.

I am thrilled to see Toshiko use her influence to promote safe streets. I hope she brings this energy to the Port Commission. The Freight Advisory Board has consistently opposed safe streets. Geri Poor, the Port’s rep, has pushed to delay simple common sense safety measures as much as anyone.

SB 79 is an unfunded mandate, if you ignore the billions of dollars in property taxes and impact fees it will generate.

Take the survey about the Occidental project, where for incredibly bad reasons the proposals are to "balance" drivers with pedestrians and "coexist" speeding cars with children because the city refuses to have a real vision. survey.alchemer.com/s3/8601953/O...

Another elected leader, Port Commissioner Toshiko Grace Hasegawa has now also put out a statement about Allie's death. www.facebook.com/reel/1142385...

Someone needs to ask these people "how" and then "what do you mean?"

One of the worst things Seattle Parks did during the Lake Washington Blvd renovations outreach, in my opinion, was how they basically completely ignored Columbia City residents as a distinct stakeholder group. They held more outreach events in Leschi then they did in Columbia City.

Seattle Fire just responded to a driver hitting someone walking at 12th Ave and E Cherry Street. The person who was hit is being transported to the hospital.

It's bleak news for rad power bikes today, but I hit a milestone on my rad city that I bought when I moved to Seattle. This is 7000 miles that I didn't drive these past 6 years

I ask, yet again, what is the point of our environmental laws if they can be ignored this easily?

While we don’t yet know all the details of this tragedy, we do know that we can save lives through better street design. Making our streets safer, especially for the most vulnerable road users — people walking, biking, and rolling — will be a high priority for my administration. #VisionZero.

Early Sunday morning, a driver struck and killed a 38-year-old named Allie who was biking across Beacon Ave S. The driver fled the scene. As a lifelong cyclist who’s had my share of close calls, my heart goes out to Allie’s family and friends.

I was so sad to hear about the death of a cyclist due to a hit-and-run on Beacon Ave. Allie was a beloved community member, avid biker, & advocate for safer transit & streets. My condolences to their family and friends. But condolences are hollow if we don’t take action to prevent the next tragedy.

There's a car abandoned in the Dearborn bike lane

I overheard the "was the victim wearing black" portion of this interrogation and noticed that the woman, who was out walking her dog, was doing so in a dark gray jacket and black pants.

At this vigil earlier, I actually watched a group of nearby residents come up and question the attendees on the specifics of the crash that killed Allie last night. Were they hit in the bike lane? Did they hit the beg button? Were they wearing all black? Etc. I could not actually believe it.