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Real industrial vibe leaving work tonight.

And the freaking greatest thing I have ever seen: this intersection has a traffic signal that is set by DEFAULT for pedestrians and cyclists, cars have to activate to cross. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The district project funds are the dumbest thing imaginable. One off spending is the least effective and the scale of the funding completely misunderstands how expensive meaningful street projects are.

Because they don't have to be self-balancing, many amendments (20 from Saka alone!) will be more about politics than any budget reality. Don't forget how many of these CMs are up for election next year because I guarantee they haven't forgotten.

Washington's I-638 would ban trans girls from participating in girls sports. If it passes, all girls who want to participate in K-12 girls' sports would need to submit a statement from their health care provider verifying what the initiative calls their "biological sex." #waleg #waelex

If anyone happens to have one of these signs laying around from the RapidRide G construction and wants it taken off their hands, let me know.

It's really clear from this budget cycle that a bunch of the Executive departments, but especially SPD, SFD, and SDOT haven't actually followed their budgets for years.

Tired: wow look how much money has been dumped into the state ballot initiatives Wired: wow look how much money has been dumped into defeating Kitsap PUD proposition 1

The narrative that the UGA is responsible for our housing scarcity is a very attractive one, because it allows anti-housing voices in cities to join together with conservative voices pushing for suburban sprawl. But it's just not true.

The Dearborn bike lanes are good, but they aren't truly 8-80 unless they are protected all the way from Rainier to 5th ave. actionnetwork.org/letters/fini...

This is right in Seattle to. There is simply no faster way around central Seattle anywhere near rush hour than an ebike.

The WA GOP is pushing sprawl hard. Meanwhile tree people in Seattle enable that sprawl by blocking infill housing - even though sprawl is *far* more destructive to forests, rivers, and thus to the salmon and the orcas that depend on the salmon.

The color of the sky in Seattle is aurometalsaurus #747879

Sorry, since when do state agencies just get to decide a section of RCW is unconstitutional and stop enforcing it?!?

The PDC just handed more influence to rich and powerful special interests with nearly no warning. Control of the state Supreme Court is on the line. Initiatives attacking fundamental rights are on the ballot. This is a travesty.

I'm Nilu Jenks, and I'm running because blue cities need to show they can govern. North Seattle has been left behind, and the people of D5 deserve as much attention, programming, and resources as the rest of the city. I’ll work hard everyday to change that, and I would be honored to earn your vote.

This is appalling. Please email schoolboard@seattleschools.org to register your objection to closing any schools. This school board was brought to you by The Strangers endorsement committee, as if we need another reason not to trust them.

Happy "guess how sick you'll be next year" season to all who celebrate!

Condos for cars on the waterway faces no environmental review, but a biking and walking trail nearish the waterway faces decades of review. Make it make sense, Washington State!

Local architect/historic board member perfectly articulates the raison d’etre of historic preservation boards: “What I've heard is that this has been scaled and designed to work with economics and making finances work. So as it stands, I have a lot of trouble supporting the project moving forward…”

RETURN TO AND EXCEED 1948 SEA-VAN TRAIN FREQUENCIES

I asked the Waymo rep whether they allow their cars to park in bike lanes. She said they do, depending on city regulations. Would they comply if the city prohibits parking in bike lanes? She said she would have to get back to me on that. LAWLESS!

An extremely large amount of the perception by car drivers that bicycle users are breaking laws all the time is that car drivers on average do not know the actual law at all, only vibes and ideas of what they *think* the law ought to be. Especially in Idaho Stop states.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

You know what? I love it. There are a lot of good, controlling design details going on here.

We need to abolish the entire current “historic preservation” infrastructure and start over. It has become nothing more than a vehicle for self-important busybodies to block any progress on the city’s most pressing problems.

getting tired of watching people die for an Elon Musk scam

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American traffic engineers seem blind to the benefits of near-sided signals. It would eliminate this behavior immediately. Design matters more than laws/rules.

It passed🥳! Here are the very reasonable street management principles the Pike Place Market Constituency adopted tonight. It would astounded normal Seattleites that this remains controversial, and that opponents said it was “similar to Trump’s efforts to tear down the East Wing of the White House” 🤯

Perhaps not a coincidence that the split is between the members elected in 2023 and earlier vs the ones elected later.

I would say today's vote continues a trend I've reported on before of extreme deference from the council to the new Executive. No comments from Teresa Mosqueda on transit funding today, for example. www.theurbanist.org/king-county-...

And being the main opponent of the Move Seattle Levy and leading the coalition trying to kill upgrades to the Route 40

The unexpected number of speeders caused the city and the company that runs the cameras to use a lottery system to randomly issue citations.

"I'm not seeing any indication from the Executive branch that they want to talk about the funding for Metro now," CM Claudia Balducci today, on the agency's projected fiscal cliff in the early 2030s. "We're spending a lot of money, but we're not talking about how to prop up the funding."

"I’ve worked in city government a long time so I speak roundabout email as well as anyone. Please do not spray water on my inbox and then try to convince me it is raining." @juliareedwa.bsky.social's mean email to an SDOT director is a lot funnier than my past mean emails to SDOT directors.

One thing I did not expect was Dan Strauss getting into a public argument with Katie Wilson while on stage about the number of trips Seattle is funding for the Route 17X.

Meanwhile the Ped and Bike boards, appointed by Council and the Mayor, have always been advisory only...

I didn't realize WSDOT was still setting speed limits based on how fast most people drive rather than how fast people *should* be driving. amp.bellinghamherald.com/news/politic...

peak-only bus lanes are such a spiteful concession to drivers. proponents say lower off-peak traffic volumes do not justify a transit lane. but logically that also means that car drivers don't really need that additional lane outside of rush hour either, since traffic is moving better then. so??

State DOTs control most of the deadliest city streets (including this one in Memphis), but they won’t fix them bc they don’t want to constrain speed or vehicle throughput. The funding issue is bogus IMO. State DOTs always find $$ for favored roadway expansions. Urban safety just isn’t a priority.

they could go slower (like walking speed). they could use pedicabs instead of golf carts. they could not honk horns. they could use an alternate route. but they do none of these things