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.

We need a plan for arterials like MLK jr Way s that respects people's time. Including people that aren't in cars.

@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...

Join @centralseattlestreetsforall.org to help us work towards this

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Seeing these all over though and it's very exciting.

Yay, but also---hear me out---what if bench WITH back?

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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...

Big bird news: alert.birdcast.org?latLng=47.60...

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!

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...

Vancouver, B.C., is one of the rainiest cities in North America.

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

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

Thank you @downtownseattle.bsky.social for fixing this!

This week Seattle's transit future will be put on the table by the Snohomish County Executive.

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.

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.

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!

@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.

@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?

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...

Cars ruin cities.

Some hostile carchitecture I can get behind.

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!

Excellent news: @seattledot.bsky.social has started planning to close this gap! #UnGapTheMap

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...

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...

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

Cops always oppose solutions that don't involve armed officers arresting people.

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.

"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...

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.

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.

@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?

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... #waleg

Despite this, arrests have increased dramatically since the council passed the drug law in 2023, and diversion has gone down just as dramatically.