Kyle Jacobson
@ks-jacobson.bsky.social
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Privacy professional. Co-lead
@centralseattlestreetsforall.org
. Can we ban cars just a little bit?
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My op-ed in the Seattle Times on pedestrian safety. I stay safe every day by anticipating the dangerous but predictable actions of drivers, and I shouldn't have to:
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/pede...
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If I paid attention like Seattle drivers, I'd be dead | Op-Ed
I am alive today because when I am walking or biking around Seattle, I anticipate the actions of drivers — many of whom aren't paying attention to me.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/pedestrians-have-to-be-miles-ahead-of-drivers-when-it-comes-to-safety/
over 1 year ago
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Ryan Packer
about 13 hours ago
The owners of the Alibi Room, Pasta Casalinga, Cobacabana, and other businesses all spoke in favor of trying out sip-and-stroll while the state law allowing it is in effect. The only three people speaking against were members of Friends of the Market.
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Rainier Valley Safe Streets
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We need a plan for arterials like MLK jr Way s that respects people's time. Including people that aren't in cars.
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Seattle Streets Alliance
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@centralseattlestreetsforall.org
is pushing forward a vision for Barbara Bailey Way as a true people-first street on Capitol Hill, building on years of organizing for safer, more welcoming public spaces. Read more:
www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/05/as-t...
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As The Ave prepares to close one block this summer, Capitol Hill organizers set sights on Barbara Bailey Way
By Anna Hull, UW News Lab As the U District experiments with closing one block of The Ave to cars, Capitol Hill organizers say their neighborhood could be next if the city can balance business conc…
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/05/as-the-ave-prepares-to-close-one-block-this-summer-capitol-hill-organizers-set-sights-on-barbara-bailey-way/
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Join
@centralseattlestreetsforall.org
to help us work towards this
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I called this in, but
@seattledot.bsky.social
this is an injury (and lawsuit) waiting to happen. It's been several days. Westbound cyclists on Jackson are forced to merge into the streetcar lane. I didn't see a signed detour onto Main or sidewalk (which has a bus stop). And King doesn't go through.
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Ryan Packer
3 days ago
Katie Wilson's administration is touting "denser, taller, faster" as the label for the next phase of implementing the Comprehensive Plan...meanwhile the Seattle City Council's consideration of Phase 2 of the plan is now set to stretch into August.
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Erica C. Barnett
4 days ago
Interesting detail in this story about a group trying to overturn same-sex marriage, blaming gay people for child sex trafficking and abuse: Their board chair is Paul Guppy, a frequent guest on
@kuow.org
's Week In Review. WiR often includes a conservative POV, but this is hateful extremism.
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Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage
Katy Faust, a Seattle-based Christian activist, has quietly gained prominence as a national leader in a conservative campaign to undo legal same-sex marriages.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/meet-the-seattle-woman-behind-a-national-effort-to-end-same-sex-marriage/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news
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One-track mind: I look at this picture and think about how residents of some the largest US cities live in fear of a 4-story building "looming" over them
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4 days ago
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4 days ago
If you're free tomorrow at 12:30, I recommend catching a
#SIFF
screening
www.siff.net/festival/und...
. Chezik Tsunoda poured her heart into stories of a few of our homeless neighbors.
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Under a Million Stars
Experts and homeless neighbors alike bust myths about Seattle’s homelessness crisis in a deeply reported, humanistic dispatch from the front lines.
https://www.siff.net/festival/under-a-million-stars
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Seeing these all over though and it's very exciting.
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5 days ago
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Yay, but also---hear me out---what if bench WITH back?
6 days ago
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Gordon Padelford
6 days ago
The West Seattle Blog comment section is doing the
@bretthamil.bsky.social
comic again: "This [building a crosswalk] is just another form of totalitarian government like Trump is imposing on the country." And kudos to SDOT staff for saying "safety is nonnegotiable!" That's new and welcome.
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Amy Sundberg
6 days ago
This is a bit misleading as the cuts would pretty much all be in the General Fund, which is around $2 billion. It's probably more accurate to say $175 million would be close to a 9% cut to the General Fund.
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Gordon Padelford
6 days ago
Lol, finally got around to reading the
@seattletimes.com
NIMBY editorial, and they lift up "the waterfront" as an example of good process. Which part of the waterfront project? The part where car traffic flow was dictated from on high, and set how much leftover space could be given to people? 1/x
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Gordon Padelford
6 days ago
SCL doesn’t ask the public if we want safe transmission lines. SPU doesn’t ask the public if we want safe watermains. Boeing Field doesn’t ask the public if we want a safe runway. WSDOT doesn’t ask the public if we want safe bridges. Why does SDOT put safe streets up for debate?
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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck
7 days ago
The Transportation Committee just voted 5-0 to put Shared Streets into the city code, and I couldn’t be happier to vote yes! This represents an amazing opportunity to make our streets safer by giving priority to people, not cars, and by allowing us to lower the speed limit to 10 MPH.
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Seattle Streets Alliance
8 days ago
Join us June 6 for a car-free street party on Capitol Hill w/music, food, art, street play, & community 🚲🎉 We are celebrating 15 yrs of working alongside neighbors to build safer, more welcoming streets. 📍 Barbara Bailey Way 🗓 June 6 🕒 3–6 PM 🎟 Free GET TICKETS:
streetsalliance.org/tickets
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Ryan Packer
8 days ago
The fact that there are TWO TV news crews here is just a much bigger indictment of how TV news in our city works than anything I could ever say about it. This is about fifty parking spaces.
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Some questions for
@seattledot.bsky.social
: 1. Is sitting in this plaza after 11 an appropriate use? 2. If so, does allowing cars present a safety risk? 3. If so, is parking enforcement enough to mitigate risk? 4. If not, are there infrastructural solutions? 5. If so, why aren't they being employed?
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8 days ago
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Katherine Mitchell
8 days ago
the fact that this is how a 7% *decrease* in home price is reported is a reminder that most of our policy environment is oriented towards enriching homeowners
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Gordon Padelford
8 days ago
We need to bring parking enforcement back to SDOT. With the chronically blocked crosswalks and bike lanes around town it’s pretty clear they do not have a mandate to focus on safety.
bsky.app/profile/gord...
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Big bird news:
alert.birdcast.org?latLng=47.60...
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BirdCast Migration Alert
BirdCast Migration Alert
https://alert.birdcast.org/?latLng=47.6061389,-122.33284809999999&locName=Seattle,%20WA,%20USA
9 days ago
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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅
9 days ago
Making plans for the first Bicycle Weekend on Sat. May 23rd?
@rvgreenways.bsky.social
is hosting a celebratory Roll and Stroll! Meet at Mt Baker Beach for brief remarks by leaders, including special guest
@tammymorales.bsky.social
, preceded by a Bike Parade from Judkins Park Station. RSVP here!
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Bicycle Weekend Opening Celebration
The Rainier Valley Safe Streets Accessible Lake Washington Boulevard Committee invites you to an Opening Day Celebration of the 2026 Bicycle Weekends Season! Families and neighbors across the Southe...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/bicycle-weekend-opening-celebration/
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Seattle Department of Transportation
9 days ago
We’re looking for community members to serve on the Transportation Funding Task Force, a new advisory group that will help the City develop long-term strategies to fund Seattle's streets, bridges, and sidewalks.
www.seattle.gov/transportati...
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John Ryan
9 days ago
Vancouver, B.C., is one of the rainiest cities in North America.
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This is all nuts. The tremendous sense of entitlement. We allow this, because whenever these communities want to NIMBY some minor proposed changes, we let them win. Anyway, I leave near Harborview. Sometimes there are helicopters. It's fine. In 2020, we had COVID life flights AND police helicopters
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9 days ago
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Ryan Packer
10 days ago
Maybe it's the fact that I took a nonconsensual trip on the hood of a car on Friday but I think making a statement like this should disqualify you from public office
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Nick
10 days ago
Thank you
@downtownseattle.bsky.social
for fixing this!
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Ryan Packer
10 days ago
This week Seattle's transit future will be put on the table by the Snohomish County Executive.
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Jason
10 days ago
Can't help but point out that SDOT did not have a community meeting in Columbia City about our parking changes despite me politely asking for one. I wonder what the difference is.
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Ryan Packer
10 days ago
Probably a bad time for the King County Council to be completely rudderless when it comes to the fiscal solvency of Washington's largest transit agency.
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Hi
@cmeddielin.bsky.social
. I've reached out to your office via phone and email on several distinct issues since you took office and haven't heard back on any. I know D2 is demanding and ~100k constituents is a ton, but will you take a look? Thanks!
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@seattledot.bsky.social
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social
families were on their way to the game yesterday and had to scatter to make way for drivers in a pedestrian plaza. When can we get your help in a serious solution to this problem? Parking enforcement and a tiny sandwich board ain't doing it.
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@seattledot.bsky.social
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social
I have it on good authority that this plaza is pedestrian-only after 11am. Can we admit parking enforcement isn't the solution?
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10 days ago
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Melissa Santos
10 days ago
WA Gov. Bob Ferguson has held more Seahawks flag-raising ceremonies than press conferences dedicated to taking wide-ranging questions from reporters. His avoidance of regular open Q&As is a departure from past governors — limiting public scrutiny of his office.
#waleg
www.axios.com/local/seattl...
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Ferguson limits press access, breaking from past governors
Washington's governor skips regular open-ended press conferences, limiting chances for tough questions.
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/05/04/bob-ferguson-press-access-washington-governor
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Michael Smith
11 days ago
Cars ruin cities.
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Some hostile carchitecture I can get behind.
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11 days ago
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Seattle friends: help reclaim this plaza for people! Tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 11am-? Come down to Occidental at Jackson St (by Caffe Umbria) with a chair, food, drinks, games, whatever and enjoy the pedestrian plaza as a place for people to enjoy car-free. Please repost!
12 days ago
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Gordon Padelford
13 days ago
Excellent news:
@seattledot.bsky.social
has started planning to close this gap!
#UnGapTheMap
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Megan Ross
13 days ago
Haunted by the idea that the worst day of my life could one day reach most people I know's ears first as a report about a traffic jam
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Motorcycle crash cleared on I-5 in downtown Seattle
A car and a motorcycle collided, sending the motorcyclist to the hospital and causing traffic to back up.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/southbound-i-5-lanes-in-downtown-seattle-blocked-by-motorcycle-crash/
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Michael Smith
13 days ago
Safe bike infrastructure connecting neighborhoods within the Rainier Valley is also non-existent. Our Neighborhood Greenway is a hilly route with over 40 turns. The only direct and flat routes consistently rank in the top 5 most dangerous streets in Seattle.
seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/27/d...
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Dangerous By Design: MLK Way’s Current Conditions
This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Every time I find myself using Martin Luther King Jr Way S (MLK Way) to travel somewhere, I know I’m in for an adventure. Regardless of the mode of transpor…
https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/27/dangerous-by-design-mlk-ways-current-conditions/
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Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development
14 days ago
Join us in shaping the future of South Lake Union and Uptown! All ages are welcome. May 6, 6:30-8:00 PM at KEXP Gathering Space and May 7, 4-7 PM at Northeastern University. Take our Regional Centers Planning surveys by May 15:
bit.ly/SouthLakeUnionSurvey
bit.ly/UptownSeattleSurvey
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Andrew Engelson
14 days ago
Cops always oppose solutions that don't involve armed officers arresting people.
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Erica C. Barnett
14 days ago
Sound Transit built massive parking garages, subsidized by all of us, and made them free. Obviously they filled up. Then ST went half measures but STILL priced most spaces at $0. Even this minuscule toll makes car-brained suburbanites incandescent. They want 100% car subsidies, all the time.
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Jake: What?! Sound Transit wants you to pay for something that was free - MyNorthwest.com
Sound Transit is rolling out a new parking permit program at its crowded light rail garages.
https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/sound-transit-pay-free/4233292
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Ryan Packer
14 days ago
"Hollingsworth and Rivera introduced their security and buffer zone amendments at the last minute, so the only copies consisted of physical printouts in council chambers." The "good governance" councilmembers continue to cover themselves in glory.
publicola.com/2026/04/30/p...
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Proposed Changes to Wilson's Shelter Plan Include Shelter-Free "Buffer" Zones, Mandatory Security - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmembers Maritza Rivera and Joy Hollingsworth proposed amendments to Mayor Katie Wilson’s ambitious shelter proposal…
https://publicola.com/2026/04/30/proposed-changes-to-wilsons-shelter-plan-include-shelter-free-buffer-zones-mandatory-security/
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Erica C. Barnett
15 days ago
The pair are also sponsoring an amendment to require at least two security officers (in addition to two on-site staff) on hand at encampments 24/7. Rivera said today that the "folks in these shelters have addiction," creating safety risks. There are, as we know, no housed people with addiction.
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Erica C. Barnett
15 days ago
Seattle City Councilmembers Joy Hollingsworth and Maritza Rivera want to ban new tiny house villages from areas within 750 feet of playgrounds, parks, child cares, and schools. Guess no one told them that there are homeless children, and that some of them will be living in these shelters.
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Sam
15 days ago
@seattledot.bsky.social
can you spot the flashing pedestrian beacons at 12th and Alder? Your project outreach coordinator says this issue has been resolved. Has it? If so by what standard?
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Melissa Santos
16 days ago
Scoop: Gov. Ferguson’s sign-off policy is creating bottlenecks at state agencies, delaying public updates — including on bridge repairs, federal shutdown impacts and vaccine guidance.
www.axios.com/local/seattl...
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Scoop: Governor sign-off rule snarls flow of information in Washington
Records show delays in public updates on vaccine access, measles exposure risk and more.
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/04/28/washington-governor-media-approval-policy-delays-state-agencies-communications
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Erica C. Barnett
16 days ago
Despite this, arrests have increased dramatically since the council passed the drug law in 2023, and diversion has gone down just as dramatically.
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