Katie Wilson: "While I strongly support additional investment in Renton, and very much understand the motivations behind this amendment, I also strongly share the sentiment that we are Sound Transit, not Sound Parking."

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

Join us for our Southend Transit Justice march & town hall next week! And if you'd like to come to the 6pm event tonight at Seattle City Hall, I'll be biking (with the kid) from Milk Drunk at 5:15. Ice-cream bribery is a small price to pay for getting cute kids holding signs on TV

Graham Street infill light rail station in the Rainier Valley is getting big applause. Several panelists brought up its importance, including Mayor Wilson just now.

Such an important op-ed: "In a situation already fraught with power imbalance, this program operated outside the bounds of the legal system to severely restrict the civil liberties of hundreds of individuals without recourse." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-i...

As someone who has worked on WCAG (the new ADA rule) this is infuriating. There are 0 guidelines suggesting governments remove active resources just because they can't figure out how to make them accessible.

There were so many problems with these gates at Line 2. How are these different?

It is wild when you look around and realize how limited housing options are for people in wheelchairs. Thanks to @ceceliablack.bsky.social for sharing her advocacy and insight!

I'm in a scooter nightmare trying to navigate from the pioneer square art walk to the light rail. How is this OK? Street parking corrals have to be a solution. It's time that we hold Seattle.

I'm so tired of employers and benefit programs processing insurance applications weeks AFTER your coverage begins and nonchalantly telling you it's retroactive.

Just watched a car driver pass this big line of traffic that my bus is stuck in driving down the center turning lane. Rainier is such a failure of design

Waiting for a late 8 to get to a #WeekWithoutDriving access ride along and it's wheelchair section is full. Unreliable buses mean more people waiting for a single bus and more likely that the only 2 seats i can use will be full.

So excited to gear up for #WeekWithoutDriving with a King County Council proclamation!

#WeekWithoutDriving is 1 week away! Having electeds who are willing and wanting to understand the experiences of nondrivers matters and impacts legislation throughout the year. Ask your Councilmembers to participate! @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social

This elevator line encapsulates the Overlook walk experience for people in wheelchairs

Join us next Monday, July 14th, from 5:30 - 8 for a special City Council candidate forum focused on disability issues in Beacon Hill! www.eventbrite.com/e/city-counc...

The 46th District Democrats endorse Katie @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor -- and it wasn't close. She got 75% of the vote, with the next closest candidate at 28%. Wow. You love to see this too!

so cool to see children testifying against a housing plan because their moms told them the city council was trying to kill the environment by chopping down all the pretty trees

“Even if we manage to live somewhere with reliable transit or find a job that allows for remote work, too often employers will still list a driver’s license as a condition of employment — even when the job has nothing to do with driving.”

It’s happening!!! will be an awesome organizing tool to build transit rider power and leadership pipelines for nondrivers

If you're a Washington resident, please send your state legislators a message through this action alert to preserve state funding for the library:

Help us get a wheelchair right to repair bill passed! Wheelchair users spend weeks and months, often in dangerous situations, waiting for basic repairs they could often do at home. Urge your reps to pass it in the house! actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...

It was nice when the bus came for our pro-bus rally. Photo above shows rally organizers @kirkhovenkotter.com and @katielorah.bsky.social and other local transit advocates. Here you can also see co-organizer @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Washington.

New sidewalks, bus lanes & lighting! What's the controversy?!

Proud to be part of a wheelchair led group advocating for our right to repair our own wheelchairs. We've been fighting the wheelchair vendor lobby to keep ableist exemptions blocking most repairs out of the bill. Yesterday, SB 5680 narrowly passed out of committee without any of NCART's amendments

Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.

We need everyone to sign in PRO for HB 1418, a bill that would allow transit agencies to appoint 2 transit riders to voting members of agency boards. I don't know what's scary about rider representation, but a lot of people are opposed. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?s...

Amplifying this! If only the preservation board cared so much about people with disabilities...

…leveraging affordable housing subsidies to build a complex for transit reliant residents with lots of wheelchair accessible units. The I looked up the zoning. In the proposed comp plan, is slated to stay a neighborhood (low rise) residential zone. Literally 200 ft from a light rail stop. 2/

Great interview here. @ceceliablack.bsky.social really demystifies the One Seattle growth plan, w/ special attention to how restrictive zoning impacts people with disabilities, who are too often overlooked in the planning process. www.kuow.org/stories/how-...

“Combined with our dominance of single-family zoning, this means that the majority of our city prohibits the types of housing most likely to be accessible, leaving many neighborhoods with very few options for people with mobility disabilities.”- @ceceliablack.bsky.social

"Let’s embrace the moment to create a different city with accessible, multi-generational communities that support active mobility for people of all ages and abilities in every neighborhood." Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.

This perfectly captures my experience at the new waterfront park. After living in Chicago and experiencing the incredible power of Millennium Park's universal design, it feels extremely hurtful that I don't get to be fully part of Seattle's vision for its future www.thestranger.com/city/2025/02...

Congrats to the many @democrats.org senators that voted to confirm this guy, including Washington’s own @cantwell.senate.gov. A real 4D chess move I’m sure.

It turns out you just need to throw in a few hundred inches of snow a year to convince car-obsessed people to support free mass transit... www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

We should be excited about zoning for universal accessibility. It' good for safety, the environment, business, and affordability, so why are we still catering to the people who continue to benefit from exclusionary zoning?

While unlicensed drivers do cause a disproportionate percentage of fatal crashes, these unlicensed fatal crashes only account for 1 out of every 10 fatal crashes in our state. It’s bigger than “bad behavior.” Car dependency inherently comes with risks.

So infuriating and scary. People with disabilities have the least access to the neighborhoods with the most transit and pedestrian infrastructure and face the greatest consequences. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The WA House transportation committee just approved HB 1418, which would allow the most common type of transit agency in Washington to add two transit riding members to their decision-making boards. www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/11/o...

I don't think people understand how isolating and lonely it can be when it takes so much time and energy to leave your (if you even have transportation options to leave your house)

If low density areas of the city resist upzones, I think it’s time we stop distributing city resources based on geography instead do it per capita so that areas that are denser get more resources: more local schools, more library hours, lifeguards & parks staff, sidewalks, nicer street lighting…

If you see yourself primarily as a transportation advocate, remember that the best transportation plan is a good land use plan. NOW is the time to engage on two key land use opportunities to make Seattle more walkable and affordable— this is one of those “Gondor calls for aide” moments.

Woke up to the Slam fam making news on KNKX this morning!

This says everything 🤣🤣

Everyone at HDC should be ashamed. :/ shorten the notice landlords must provide before raising rents. … 2 months or 4 months for increases above 8%. In the case of an 8% increase, HDC would allow tenants to break their lease with a 30 day notice. — 😡 www.thestranger.com/news/2024/12...

Once again both elevators are out at the ID station are as of this morning with no alerts. @sound-transit.bsky.social doesn't care about people with disabilities

Once again, both elevators are out at the ID station (w/no alerts) because @sound-transit.bsky.social doesn't care about people w/disabilities, but 5/5 stars for the security guard who took me up the escalator

This needs to be amplified. Also has anyone ever seen a draft ada transition plan for sound transit?

I want to support local journalism and had previously really appreciated the work of Traffic Lab at the Seattle Times, every article lately has just had horrendous framing and parroted assumptions that “everyone drives.”