The reckoning is still coming. We've relied on downtown property taxes, now what?

launching this Friday!

Bus-only lanes would be a reasonable use of the disgusting amount of money we spend on highways, and it would make taking the bus between cities where there's no rail connection a lot more feasible

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

For the cost of a little white paint we could also build some transit only lanes on I-5. I'd even take carpool lanes. Why can't we do this, WSDOT?

While the Sound Transit Ballard cuts are awful, I'm also sad that the train to DuPont got further delayed yesterday. Nobody wants to sit in this traffic. Even my car dependent dad was saying he'd rather spend 4 hours on a Oly to Seattle ferry (if it existed) than drive I-5 these days.

Most of the Portland to Seattle Amtrak trains were fully sold out today. Snagged a ticket to Centralia last night, then while on the train waited for no shows and managed to get a ticket to continue on to Olympia. Now taking the bus from Oly to Parkland & we're stuck in I-5 traffic. More trains now!

"Car-Free on LWB" #doomloop #seattle

Yep. This meme is probably familiar to you, if not all your followers.

Sound Transit Sacrifices Light Rail to Ballard, Moves Long-Deferred Graham Station Forward, in Latest "Realignment" Claudia Balducci, the longest-serving board member, told PubliCola the latest crisis has made her rethink the transit agency's governance by a changing roster of elected officials.

Some good news: the number of crashes on MLK Way between Rainier Ave and the I-90 lid was cut in half between 2023 and 2025 (20 vs 10). What happened in 2024? SDOT built protected bike lanes along this segment.

This is a huge victory for South Seattle! ☀️

While I'm personally thrilled to have this station coming to my community, it's only as useful as the places you can get to. When we don't build planned lines, we all lose. It's time to take a hard look at how our transit governance structure ended up failing transit riders so badly...

Yessssssss graham street goooo!!!! Swear I would’ve thrown a table if not for

The first applause of the meeting as the Graham Street Station is back on the "fully funded" list.

It passes!

graham street is up for a vote. watch live! soundtransit-org.zoom.us/j/8764299842...

thank you @bretthamil.bsky.social! I love this panel in particular. southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...

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When I ask people this when they say that there are no viable alternatives to cars where they live, they often say there is special provision for disabled people which is entirely adequate or they can get someone else to drive them. Or they just ignore the question. For many, this is the reality:

Excited to kick off this project with @nondriver.bsky.social.

I love this so much, and it makes me think about my grandparents (immigrants from China who never learned to drive) who would take the bus everywhere. Unfortunately, their stories are SO underrepresented in urbanist discourse for a variety of reasons.

Yes!!!

Ladies of transportation ride! So grateful to have Jessica Fletcher, @transittrekker.bsky.social and @nondriver.bsky.social in my backyard to ride the Historic Columbia River Highway Trail.

Stay tuned!

Your transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems is daunting, you can win. In If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight, @CarterLavin provides a roadmap for turning passion into political power. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

"Keep it like this forever!" Flashback to 2020, when Lake Washington Boulevard was open to bike all summer (These were all originally posted directly on Twitter, but my account there is long gone)

Grumpy that the message around the need for LWB to be accessible for disabled people -- and how that access is actually *increased* when the road is closed to cars -- didn't make the news coverage.

I spend most of my daily commute on Rainier imagining what each section could be with real protected bike lanes and didn’t know where to direct this wish. It’s here! 👇

Or if we wanted to aspire to something truly great, we could look at how Paris transformed their waterfront for people:

Some ideas from France and Spain about how a shared-used path could look like for Lake Washington Boulevard.

Fyi, for the people who were heckling us today. Here's what happened to the sidewalk repairs. It was former Mayor Harrell. And there was $120K of TIB funding set aside for LWB safety improvements that got yanked from the project because of his delays of the safety improvements.

Coexist LWB stepping from behind the curtain to show they're all elderly wealthy white homeowners. Is anyone at all surprised? Bruce Harrell & his SDOT let this astroturf group squander funding for a safe walking + biking promenade on LWB. They used cynical, unethical lies to keep this road unsafe.

A cool thing about NIMBYs is that if you let them talk long enough they eventually say or do something that gives mayors all the permission they need not to listen to them.

A statement on the cancellation of The Ave For All - A Car-Free University Way Pilot

Yikes. "Bikes Will Not Replace Us." When you're mimicking a white nationalist slogan you've totally lost the plot.

Wow, talk about critical mass! Fantastic turn out for the first Bicycle Weekend on LWB. Thanks to @rvgreenways.bsky.social and Safe Streets Alliance for organizing this celebration.

So many people want our parks and streets to be transformed -- we have to stop being scared of the few who are attached to a car-dependent city. Let's have the courage to insist on a bolder vision and start building all ages and abilities scooting/biking infrastructure on every street.

Southeast Seattle needs all ages and abilities scooting/rolling/biking infrastructure and we have to stop being scared opposition from people who can only imagine a city for cars. Sign the petition nondrivers.org/rainier/

The turnout for Bicycle Weekends today is amazing. And yeah, there are some counterprotestors trying to rain on everyone's parade. But there are no signs so far that anyone is going to let that happen.

Huge turnout for Mayor Katie Wilson cutting the ribbon on the expanded 2026 Lake Washington Boulevard Bike Weekends season. Every weekend through Labor Day is an open street from Mount Baker Beach to Seward Park.

We absolutely agree. Thanks in large part to the entrenched opposition so much energy has been poured into Lake Washington Boulevard advocacy, and it's meant we haven't had the time and energy to work on making all our streets safer.

Nothing like getting heckled for closing a park to cars a few weekends a year to make you realize the people protecting the status quo will protest no matter what. Let's start asking for what we need: a safe place to scooter and bike along Rainier Avenue. Sign the petition: nondrivers.org/rainier/

Nothing like getting heckled for closing a park to cars a few weekends a year to make you realize the people protecting the status quo will protest no matter what. Let's start asking for what we really need: a safe place to scooter and bike along Rainier Avenue. Petition: nondrivers.org/rainier/

Took advantage of Bike Weekends on Lake Washington Blvd to get to Mercer Island to visit my optometrist & shop for more affordable groceries. While it's great to have this freedom of movement on summer weekends, we need all ages & abilities biking/scooter infrastructure year round for SE Seattle!

I think a lot about what this piece illustrates: there are enough people, even in lower density areas, to support frequent transit -- if those people took transit (instead of driving)

What if we stopped 7 bus service at Judkins Park Station? So much of what makes this bus late & chaotic would be avoided. There are other buses, street car to run up and down Jackson. Plus add all day long 9x for Capitol Hill connections & a rapid ride Rainier Valley experience.

"Nearly 4 in 10 Americans surveyed by Lending Tree, or 39%, said a car is a luxury they cannot afford."

And it's why activities like "Week Without Driving" and "Ride Transit Month" are so important. Because we are all on a sliding scale of access and accessibility, and better services for these helps all of us, people who are licensed and people who aren't.

It's why I fervently agree with @transittrekker.bsky.social and @nondriver.bsky.social that transit agency governing bodies need *actual full-time transit riders* on their boards. It's why modal advisory boards are important to serve on even if their cities only listen half of the time.