What are the top Seattle street candidates for such a treatment

"The car-default city is not just dangerous and polluting. It is lonely."

FYI the next transportation committee meeting is this coming Thursday, July 2nd at 9:30 am at City Hall. Feel free to let Saka and the committee know how you feel.

This is what the sidewalk looks like <1/4 mile from RapidRide and a future light rail station

It would be an extreme measure, but we call on the council to consider changing the chairs of the committees. Transportation Chair is too important for Rob Saka to be done.

Rob Saka is not being honest when he says he doesn't want to involve himself in SDOT design, he literally added the district funds to the Seattle Transit Levy that gives each district council member the explicit requirement to do so.

It was not just a rider, but Maridee's daughter in fact

You can hear the immediate reaction where a rider says "this is bullshit, and that's what she (Maridee) would say if she was here" and another adds "enough speeches!"

This guy was itching to commit manslaughter

Rob Saka doesn't actually have a problem inserting himself into SDOT operations, the problem he has is that he doesn't care all that much about this issue personally the way he did about taking a dangerous left turn into his kids school.

This is not leadership. Rob Saka should never have been appointed chair of the transportation committee by Joy Hollingsworth. These people are responsible for every preventable traffic death in Seattle and for not making progress on vision zero.

It was... interesting to hear Saka say that when he last got involved in road design things didn't go great, so he won't get directly involved here but will instead pass along requests to SDOT. Yet when it came to cars (Curby) he earmarked $2 million, pressured SDOT, and persevered for two years...

Ride of the valkyries

Meanwhile in Seattle we keep our arterials exactly the same while forcing new residents on to them

Thank you @nondriver.bsky.social for writing this, and I feel you deeply about the emotional tailspin. We have to do better for our Seattle neighbors. Empty words, delays, "outreach", and a feckless Vision Zero are not cutting it. Maridee, Cristian, Alley and everyone before them deserved better. 💔

I'm going to have to see more from Angela Brady than thoughts and prayers.

I plan to be under the bridge around 715 pm for those looking to join the ride starting in West Seattle

And yet not a single f'ing peep from our West Seattle councilmember and transportation committee chair, Rob Saka

Critical Mass Seattle will ride tomorrow to the ghost bikes of Cristian Salyer and Maridee Bonadea, both killed on Seattle streets this month. Westlake (4th and Pine) ~6:30pm, ride ~7:00pm, WSB ~7:30pm, Maridee ghost bike ~8:30pm, Cristian ghost bike ~10:00pm. Get loud. Get angry. Force change. 💔

Tonight (June 26), Critical Mass Seattle is hosting a group bike ride in honor or Christian Salyer and Maridee BonaDea, another cyclist who was killed by a motorist this month. The ride starts from Westlake Park around 7pm and will visit the ghost bike sites for vigils.

Wasn't the Times itself saying the levy shouldn't be so large when it was the mayor proposing the expansion, and now that it's moving forward they want to give credit for it to Rivera's staff who were working to reduce it? wtf, what am I missing?

I reported overgrown vegetation (branches at head level) on a bike trail in Bellevue. A crew was sent the next business day to trim the trees. How can we get this level of service in Seattle?

Every once in a while I remember how the media came hard after Katie Wilson for getting assistance from her parents for childcare and it makes me want to fucking explode

Should I go see Backrooms at 9:50 or go to bed on time

Goddamn that's some slop

A woman was approached by ICE at a polling station this week for a simple post she made on Instagram, but I guess I should actually be scared of "Chinese" cars (I type, on my made in China phone)

Truly we need to stop letting the tail wag the dog when it comes to streets. Emergency response needs to fit onto our streets not the other way around.

This is what I would propose for a new permanent first-class AAA bike path through the West Duwamish Greenbelt *before* WSLE-related construction closures. As plotted it's a maximum ~8.6% grade but I suspect with a little more careful lateral positioning it could be ~5% maximum. Paved, wide, smooth!

When thinking about #VisionZero in Seattle there is an important 80-80 rule to remember: 80% of 🚶🏼‍♂️fatalities are on multiple lane arterials. 80% of 🚴🏾‍♀️ fatalities are on streets with no bike lane.

This is cool and all, but I hate "parking protected" bike lanes. This is effectively a continuous blindspot between you and the drivers who might suddenly turn left on you.

Even better explanation of why they're terrible, from one of our own!

Jfc. As I said yesterday, every four lane road is a design failure.

One thing that makes me really, really angry is that I bike past Louisa Boren STEM a few times a week with my daughter and it's very difficult to get the walk signs and bike signal at Delridge and Juneau to trigger. I feel like schools should have extra attention as safe walking zones.

My brother is in Italy and man, they have TOD we can only dream of

I read OPCD's entire report looking at what could be done with SR 99 through South Park. It's pretty unequivocal: this is an unnecessary highway and full removal/reclamation is the clear best option. www.theurbanist.org/new-report-o...

NEW STORY// New Report Outlines Clear Case for Removing SR 99 Through South Park By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org

Let's imagine that the final cost is just 50% more once factoring in department budgets. That's $30 million that could be spent on building sidewalks in White Center, repairing trails along the Green River, or improving parks in Skyway. But nope, dumped into a deteriorating office building downtown.

I still can't believe that King County is spending $22 million to mandate a RTO policy that will cost both taxpayers and employees far more, whereas Island County has cut the work week for employees by eight hours and saved $2 million in the process.

As mentioned, I golf, but a 100 acre golf course in an area that is rapidly getting denser without having added any new park space is not a great use of this land into the future. 60,000 rounds of golf are played on this course each year, just 160ish (1.6/acre) people a day using all this space.

We don't have a central park like this in West Seattle, I nominate the golf course

Every non-highway four lane road is a design failure

Permanent soon?

“The front end was always the focal point,” GM designer Karan Moorjani told Muscle Cars & Trucks e-zine. “We spent a lot of time making sure that when you stand in front of this thing it looks like it’s going to come get you.” Fuck these guys

Full disclosure, I use LLMs occasionally as a very novice coder and for compiling data. But I'm very much in the fuck-all-this-noise camp. Literally looks like a scene from The Electric State (the book, of course). Put a moratorium on data centers, IDGAF.

this has already happened in US cities where massive SUVs are now the norm we've probably lost 15% of on street parking to dangerous oversized vehicles

NEW: Cars are growing 1.2 cm longer every year, a new study from T&E and @cleancitiescampaign.org shows. European cities are set to lose between 8.5% and 14% of their on-street parking by 2040 if this trend continues unchecked. 🧵⤵️

A key finding indicates up to 100 acres of public space currently occupied by highway 99 could be reclaimed. The Reroute + Reclaim option would free up 59 acres for environmental and shoreline restoration, 41 acres for housing, parks, and industry, and leave 17 acres for streets.

I now know three (talented) people who have left King County and taken jobs elsewhere over the RTO policy. For them it wasn't so much the three in-office days, but the concentrating of all King County offices downtown from places like Renton etc.

One hour and some Ryobi tools can provide at least a small sense of personal accomplishment for your bike-activism

189 miles of metro for $50 billion That's 3x as much track as ST3 for less money