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Passive aggressive signage isn’t working. These are two different SUVs by the way

Since I expect the conversation to quickly shift to: sales taxes are regressive...you're absolutely right. Sales taxes are pretty regressive. Also regressive: a lack of transit access. Also regressive: Metro hitting a fiscal cliff in the early 2030s and cutting service citywide.

Today, Katie Wilson is rolling out her proposed renewal for the 2020 Seattle Transit Measure, which pays for supplemental Metro service and other transit related programs. Wilson's proposal is expected to double the current 0.15% sales tax rate to 0.3% to fund dramatically more Metro service.

You shouldn't have to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet. Back in the 1950's People were taking care of themselves and their children with one job. We've lost our way.

And I said, no Seattle has definitely had declines in transit service too, and they have a local ballot measure to buy more transit service from Metro. And they still have less bus service now than 10 years ago! Pretending like Seattle is somehow privileged by Metro is just not accurate or helpful.

Sound Transit is showing off its first full set of new Sounder cars, manufactured by Alstom. Yesterday I posted that these were going to be the refurbished Bombardier cars and I regret the error. While the Alstom cars first started arriving in 2022 they have taken a while to get into service.

Extremely Waterloo Region coded

Can we get this on our refurbished GO Train coaches? We are the king of bilevels after all!

We can't build a Grocery Store on Aurora. We can't build Housing in Seattle. We *can* build highway expansions through greenfields in Seatac. Our environmental law is no longer about the environment. Its purpose has been skewed so much that it exists now merely as a tool to maintain the status quo.

Greetings from Issaquah, where the city is hosting its first community meeting following a Sound Transit board vote to postpone the 4 Line between South Kirkland and Issaquah to 2050. This meeting is being held in a vintage train depot!

I actually toured this car today with Dow Constantine, who told me he wants to see a way to bring more riders onto the N Line...something that could potentially reverse the current plan to mothball the line in 2033.

I’m genuinely curious: how do we get so many broken plastic posts in a straight line? These things are supposed to resist multiple impacts but keep getting broken. Supposing each of them can resist 10 impacts, we are talking about 50 drivers who drove into the bike lane on this block alone.

What are we doing folks? Are we in a housing crisis or not? Time for #WALeg to put an end to these NIMBY shenanigans.

What if we just built the @safesler.bsky.social stations and ran a mini local train between Ballard and Tukwila as frequently as possible until BLE gets built? www.theurbanist.org/case-four-ne...

I’m glad Seattle chose to build housing for people, not cars, next to its major transit stations.

With the Ave pedestrian block scandal, anti-Bicycle Weekend protesters, Laurelhurst getting rolled in the Children’s showdown, and Eddie Lin taking direct aim at NIMBY loopholes in city code, it really feels like Seattle is finally starting to turn a corner on Seattle Process. ☀️

we must continue to add routes to this map until morale improves

Oh yeah, Happy Pride Month

I still get the "you poor thing, you're so oppressed! You aren't allowed to show even your eyes!" comments and to that I say: You don't even know how liberating it is to never have to show my face again if I don't want to. My self confidence has increased like you wouldn't believe.

Colorado just reformed the RTD board (which operates ELECTRIC regional rail in Denver). 5 elected seats, 4 appointed seats for experts in finance, planning, and labor. Much better than part time local electeds with contradictory goals running Metrolink. www.masstransitmag.com/management/n...

the funniest thing about the SD70MACH by far is that it works flawlessly

Happy pride month eve to everyone, except for city councilmembers voting yes on pride month proclamations and then not voting to allow housing to be built within their borders.

damn Metroid Fusion really is a horror game #Metroid

The decision last week from the Sound Transit board to leave Ballard Light Rail extension unfunded is downright outrageous. So make your voices heard! Sound Transit board needs to feel that pressure every single day until Ballard is funded.

It’s great to see Westlake Park open again.

The mayor in Spokane spoke out against having protesters arrested and charged. "This was all politically motivated". Dark days when freedom denied.

This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...

“Oh so you’re always saying the Democrats need to get younger and are a gerontocracy but suddenly you’ll reverse that if the old person kicks ass and the younger candidate sucks?” Yeah I guess, that seems to make sense to me

Sound Transit’s $34.5B funding gap and delayed lines are a sobering reminder: the richest nation on earth has a systemic capital project delivery crisis. If we want a sustainable, mobile future, we absolutely must solve our project costs and controls problem. www.king5.com/article/news...

Food for thought when contemplating Boeing Access. WMATA built the Potomac Yard infill station for $370M in 2023. A larger more complicated project than Being access. For $100m less We are cutting scope because ST can sharpen its pencil and learn from others. dcist.com/story/23/05/...

First block of bike lane finished on the RapidRide J project? Are we still going with plastic posts on a $150M project, or is this just temporary?

POV Toronto's Church Street after the pedestrian pilot is made permanent and @chanface.bsky.social is appointed special advisor on public spaces to the mayor

I talk to them all the time, and work with them. Folks in the Bay Area working to save BART, in PDX fighting TriMet cuts, in LA trying to expand Metro Rail. Nobody’s pretending we’re worse off. It’s all the same fight: transit advocates against some local electeds who don’t make transit a priority.

No traffic in our lane

This is a new low for Danny Westneat, but it’s also typical of a certain Seattle mindset: We can’t do what the rest of the world does easily and cheaply, so we should just give up. Why bother even trying to do good things.

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

“Shelved” seems like an accurate word to me. Plenty of projects get designed and sit on a shelf waiting for funds. Construction to Market Street has been defunded. And while design work will continue, there is no longer any commitment to fund or construct it. Promises, yes, but that’s all.

Being out there in Ballard in the last 24 hours, the anger among normies about what Sound Transit did to their rail line is intense and deep. It’s understandable and justifiable. Let people mourn. And then we’ll organize.

Inside you are two orcas, they both support urban infill development (obviously).

Ten years after approving the nation’s largest rapid transit build-out, the Seattle area hasn’t even broken ground on critical and high-ridership service to places like Ballard and West Seattle. It would totally be fair to compare ST3 to the infamous Seattle Monorail Project at this point.

Fuck Waymos

METROID (i downloaded a bunch of the Metroid classic games on my 3DS and now I have a new Hyper fixation)

Life in Cuba is being punished for the "sins" of people that died before your grand parents were even born. White people have such an absurd grudge against Cuba and Haiti for the crime of freeing slaves from plantations.

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

not impressed with the Backrooms film tbh. I've been trapped in penn station for three hours help

Sound Transit really has destroyed its reputation. Ballard voted 70% or more in favor of ST3!

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?