Seth Geiser

You can always report potholes, problems, and yes – cracks – with the Find It, Fix It app. We caught up with @mayor.seattle.gov and SDOT Acting Director Angela Brady on 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle.

“Building apartment building for people will kill orcas!” cry disingenuous NIMBYs who don’t want more neighbors. But an actual car garage on 9 acres of waterfront? Not a peep. Interesting!

If we "know" there are crimes being committed in RVs, prosecute the crimes. Don't criminalize survival. Crimes happen in single family homes and apartments, too. Should we outlaw those? The right wing of the Seattle City Council has lost their damn minds.

Paris is showing how to make cities healthier and more child-friendly. More than 300 school streets are now car-free and give space to trees, play, and safe walking/cycling. The aim goes far beyond traffic safety: cleaner air, less noise, and more independence for children.

I don't think Pike Place visitors are ready to cede this space.

Who are folks liking in the urban/streetscape design space these days? An ideas competition for the Pike/Pine corridor is brewing and want to make sure the brief hits the right inboxes

For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.

Just remembering the time I had to go before a campaign ethics board bc the oppo campaign said a mailer I made looked too professional and my $200 in-kind contribution should have been paid services

Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry

One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)

the pettiness of homeowners who just can't abide people enjoying outdoor spaces in "their" neighborhoods knows no bounds the need for a "solution" to outdoor dining only exists if you concede that outdoor dining is inherently a bad thing www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/10/if-s...

This is such an incredible redevelopment opportunity, it’s worthy of an international design competition.

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...

Juarez also claimed, again completely falsely, that "in the real world, we are seeing more crime because we have less officers to go out and keep our community safe." In fact, crime is down and continues to decline.

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

There have always been people who say they'll "innovate" new ways to do reporters' jobs, from crowdsourcing to piecework news snippets to listicles. Sara Nelson's clumsily biased simulacrum of a human-reported local news site is just as obviously doomed as all those efforts to replace journalists.

All this effort was to build the most basic safety improvement at an intersection near an elementary school. Unfortunately, once a historic preservation group has power, they will fight to keep it.

A bunch of ppl you've never heard of on some dusty neighborhood committee shouldn't get a veto on your traffic safety

NEW: Alexis Mercedes Rinck has proposed an amendment to Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act that would give the City Traffic Engineer explicit authority to implement street changes in historic districts (Pioneer Square, Pike Place) without getting the approval of the local boards.

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

we have got to become comfortable once again with calling dumb selfish assholes, dumb selfish assholes

A pedestrian street can have 98% approval and it still might revert back to cars. But a car street can fail miserably on numerous measures and it will remain as is.

It’s fascinating, and somewhat frustrating, to follow the official considerations around the proposed scaling back of the Pike Place Market pedestrianization from year-round to seasonal in Seattle. An illustration of how even really popular pedestrianizations can be weakened by bad decision-making.

Pike Place should put people first year-round. In SDOT’s June survey, 98% of 5,403 respondents supported vehicle barriers. And among 224 Market businesses & staff who responded, 96% agreed. Yet the proposal for this winter would allow more general car traffic into the Market.

Democracy takes many forms, and giving the bus its own lane so 40 people on a bus can sail by a handful of people driving alone in private cars is one of them.

Remember when Seattle used to produce nationally significant legislation instead of just doing dumbass laws making it extra-super-duper illegal to sell street hot dogs while doing a graffiti? Well those days are BACK BABY

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: How Pike Place Market Can Thrive in the Winter Without Car Traffic By Gordon Padelford, Seattle Streets Alliance via @theurbanist.org

96% of businesses and 98% of people would like to open the street to walking always. 2-4% do not so I guess it’s time for a compromise called ‘doing very little because there is not perfect consensus’

Part of the reason other nations have rich social safety nets is that they also have a sense of shared civic identity that comes from shared public space. When great parks are handed over to cars, people in them become more guarded, more defensive, and stingier in all kinds of unexpected ways.

Years of process to restrict private vehicles from a major city's most popular pedestrian space, the sun cannot become a red giant soon enough

Good news for the 14.5% of people who drive to Pike Place Market (and don’t want to walk, bike or bus there): There is a public parking garage with 800 spaces (including disabled parking spaces) literally attached to the Market. It takes 1:20 to get from the garage to the shops ⏱️

SIGH. Other cities manage to do this. Seattle could barely keep it going for a year despite near-universal public support. www.theurbanist.org/pike-place-p...

i wish the folks recommending and supporting this strategy would consider that changing the rules every season and every day of the week and hour to hour and event to event is goddamn confusing for literally everyone and basically impossible to communicate.

"Well, surely, there must be an overall decrease in visitors!" Nope. Again, the Urban Freight Lab's own survey shows that 47% of people are visiting MORE since the car-lite pilot, with only 9% saying they visit less. (The remainder report no change.)

I tried to find common ground with others on this panel tonight, but this is one area of fundamental disagreement. Unnecessary car traffic pushing through the Market degrades the experience for everyone else, and limits the potential to create a more welcoming street for people to shop and enjoy

I am not sure why there is so much media coverage of the “recall effort” for Mayor Wilson when it carries only slightly more legal weight than an angry Facebook comment

We’re delivering all‑day, year‑round preschool, universal free school meals, free mental health care for teens and young adults, and clear pathways to good jobs. @cmmaritzarivera.bsky.social

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

It's kind of wild that the local "establishment" press and centrist political leadership are obsessed with normal mayoral acts when they could be concerned about: - climate change - traffic violence - housing costs - ICE/CBP snatching neighbors - 1000+ federal things that undermine good governance.

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration