What does a healthy society sound like? Maybe a little something like this! Here are hundreds of us riding together, and the loudest sounds are the birds and our chit-chat :)

The other day I was biking back from the Carkeek Park playground and an impatient driver who was behind me for less than 10 seconds made this dangerous pass… we need better drivers or safer access to our parks…

Sometimes I wonder if the “Street Closed” signs even matter anymore… I don’t think “local access” means you can come from outside the closed street, pass through five closed blocks, and rejoin the arterial afterward (video speed 4x)

Bike commuter math: Since biking in the evening is just as fast as (or faster than) driving, and the morning ride only takes 20 longer... that means I'm only spending 20 minutes of my day to get a 20-mile bike workout.

Imagine you have an ambulance blasting its siren at 130 dB, two cars are stopped in front of you, and you still decide to go full speed into the wrong lane… we really need to do something about driver's ed!

Another shrinking bike lane. I hope no cyclist was in the lane when a vehicle hit the barrier

A few posts were reinstalled this week, but some of these week-old posts are already broken. The vast majority of the bike lane is still missing posts. Maybe putting flimsy flying plastic on the road isn't the solution…

After checking various map apps and the City of Bellevue Bike Maps, I thought I’d found the (almost) perfect route to go to the Spring District… until I hit the closure on the 120th Ave NE bike path

I was thinking about how few people follow the road closure signs when I arrived at this intersection, and 4 of the 5 possible directions were closed (only U-turn was possible). Drivers still proceeded to the 'road closed to thru traffic’ … to be fair I didn’t see any official detours…

I see some demand for a larger trail.

Good start to the Bike to Work Week this morning with clear weather (you can even see Mt Rainier on the right)

One by one, every neighbor on this street is paving over portions of the planting strip to make more room for cars. Foot by foot, car bloat is extending paved surfaces...

I hesitated to honk as they started to drift into the bike lane… but in the end, they yielded

This view and this speed never get old

Delays to buses have become common at Montlake as HOV violators cause backups onto 520. Nice to see action is being taken to speed up transit and keep the buses moving fast and reliably!

It’s time.

E-bike has been in the shop for service for a couple of days now… yesterday I did the kid activities with the Prius😵‍💫 : coming back from Capitol Hill took me 42 minutes instead of 20 minutes on ebike. Today we did all activities with the bus: more fun but also very time-consuming compared to biking…

Cars ruin cities.

Seattle is colorful: knitted sleeves on the bike racks, vibrant utility box art, and yellow flex posts at the greenway crossing

The average height of modern SUVs and trucks makes the design of such bike lanes very tricky. Should the new standard be a bi-directional protected bike lane with a concrete barrier and no parking, and a median curb to prevent turning outside of intersections?

Family parking at the swimming pool

For the first time since the pandemic, Fremont Bridge bike trips topped 1 million in 2025 and are on pace for a new record #SEAbikes #Seattle

Five years ago, I told myself I wouldn't work on the Eastside again until the light rail opened. Fast forward to this week: I’m back working on the Eastside, enjoying a much better commute on a beautiful train… or by ebike…

I dread Autonomous Vehicles coming to my city. The drive for profit will outweigh any possible advantages. road.cc/news/driverl...

One of the best bridge to cross Aurora Avenue N

It’s getting better! Thanks for the ✈️ sign and the other improvements!

More proof that lifted trucks should be banned: someone just drove over a Lamborghini without even noticing. At 46 inches tall, that car is the same height as an average 6-year-old child.

Stone Way N has so much construction that multiple blocks are routinely closed to pedestrians with no safe detour. This sidewalk has been closed for several weeks with no detour at all. At minimum, we could make a walking path here

The photo angle isn’t great, but the driver on the right, same car that routinely parks illegally here (you can see the same car in previous post) spots a cyclist, passes them, and then pulls ahead to block the bike lane. NE 65th St badly needs a proper rebuild here

“When we think about e-bike crashes and deaths related to e-bikes, the vast majority are cars and trucks killing people on e-bikes as opposed to people on e-bikes injuring somebody else” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I think there is some room for improvement in the signage so it can be read faster when catching a train * Group trains by direction: Northbound, Southbound * Add a ✈️ logo for trains to the airport * On the platform screen, indicate the length of trains so people don’t have to run to another door

First work trip to Bellevue Downtown since the 2 line crosses the bridge: 🚊 Roosevelt to Bellevue by train: 38 min 🚌 🚊 Bellevue to Roosevelt taking bus 271 (stop at Montlake and walk to UW) + train: 29 min. It’s good to have options! Both rides are so scenic, and faster than driving at rush hours.

I’m still not accustomed to that: I missed a train by a couple of seconds… no worries, the next one is in 2 min!

Montlake “HOV” exit on the lid: every car but one is single‑occupant and illegally slowing down buses. If we’re not going to enforce traffic law, we should make this exit bus‑only.

Spring has sprung: trees are blossoming, and the flex posts are popping again when filing Find It, Fix It reports.

I was trying the most direct and flat route from Wallingford (N 50th) to Ballard, and the sidewalk on Market Street is pretty wild: a leaning tree, overgrown vegetation, and even falling boulders. All of this is just one block away from a bus stop of the improved Route 44.

‘You Didn’t See Shit,’ Local Says to California Tourist Witnessing Sunny Seattle Spring: tinyurl.com/2wc2b6de

We already knew many people would let the planet burn to keep free parking. Turns out they’ll let their own house burn too

Good to see some concrete barriers on this bike lane. The flex posts at this spot kept getting broken. Here’s a video from a couple months ago.

SDOT recently narrowed the Airport Way PBL and it is so emblematic of the Seattle bike advocacy experience photo by @bobco85.bsky.social

Really appreciate our electeds who took the time to tour the Rainier side of the new Judkins Park light rail today. There's still work to do to make this a safe and comfortable place for people to walk, roll, ride & live and it's going to take all of us pushing and dreaming of something better!

This is the 2 Line. Next stop Mercer Island.

If there’s one thing I learned today: people really underestimate how many transit nerds there are in Seattle. Everybody loves trains!

Big crowds at the No Kings protest in Seattle. It’s good to see so many people out standing up for democracy

These jackets are a superpower: you’re suddenly so visible after dark! Highly recommend them.

People are genuinely excited about the new light‑rail extension over the floating bridge

This rain is really testing the limits of my bike‑gear waterproofing.

Every time I see a before/after picture like this, I think even the “before” is better than what we have for most school streets in Seattle.

With the light rail closed in downtown, and the ramp to access Aurora from 7th Ave N closed delaying the Rapid Ride E, it’s hard to have a reliable S-N transit service this weekend.

Why is it so hard to have a bike lane really protected from cars in this city?