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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.

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Add to cart: 1 This intersection paint job. 1 This traffic signal priority scheme. And oh what the hell, 1 That building.

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social

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. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Damn, my card got declined. I gotta remove something from my cart. Hmm.

seattlebikeblog.comCouncil unanimously approves bill outlining safety role of Traffic Engineer, tasks departments with drafting rules to require truck side guards for city contractorsFrom a Federal Highway Administration publication written a few years after passage of Boston's 2014 truck side guard ordinance. The Seattle City Council unanimously approved two of the three bills in Councilmember Rob Saka's SAFER Streets Act, officially adding the job description of a Chief Safety Officer to the section of city code defining the role of City Traffic Engineer and tasking city departments with developing rules that would require city contractors to install side guards on trucks. Action on a third bill containing many changes including an expansion of SDOT authority over street safety in historic districts has been delayed until at least the Council's November 10 meeting.

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Council unanimously approves bill outlining safety role of Traffic Engineer, tasks departments with drafting rules to require truck side guards for city contractors #SEAbikes #Seattle

seattlebikeblog.comseattlebikeblog.comCity Council special meeting to discuss and likely vote on the SAFER Streets bill is underway. Watch: https://seattlechannel.org/watch-live Background: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/09/18/transportation-committee-advances-vision-zero-bills-would-exempt-many-traffic-safety-changes-from-historic-district-approval/

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City Council special meeting to discuss and likely vote on the SAFER Streets bill is underway. Watch: https://seattlechannel.org/watch-live Background:…

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Sarah Crumb

@sarahscrumbs.bsky.social

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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pwalchtaylor.bsky.social

@pwalchtaylor.bsky.social

According to the Seattle Times Seattle can’t enforce parking rules because the police want a slush fund/thing to point to when asked how they are saving money? So why did we move parking enforcement from SDOT back to SPD? Maybe we should rethink that. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.comWhy isn’t Seattle hiring parking enforcement officers if they make money?As one of the few revenue-generating city jobs, they should be a budget writer's best friend. Not this year.

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gregmartinsd.bsky.social

@gregmartinsd.bsky.social

That's horrific. "One of the victims was reportedly dragged more than a mile before being left in a residential neighborhood, KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw reported."

ktla.comDriver accused of DUI after striking 30-person Halloween bike ride, killing 2 in CaliforniaTwo people were killed and two others injured when a suspected drunken driver struck a group of approximately 30 bicyclists participating in a Halloween ride in San Bernardino County late Saturday …

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Gordon Padelford

@gordonofseattle.bsky.social

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We are maybe 3 days from breaking the all-time Fremont bike counter record for October, and there's a chance we could break the all-time annual record by Thanksgiving. We are 87K away and are currently recording an average of 3.8K per day. That rate will decline with cold and rain. Need 2.7K/day.

Breaking the annual record a month early would be amazing. I am very eager to see how many people keep biking through the rainy months this time, because it will probably be another record (so long as it doesn't ice over).

If I were in charge of sales at a rain gear company, I'd be advertising on Seattle Bike Blog!

Anti-trans attacks are not a “distraction,” they are a wedge issue! If conservatives are hammering a wedge into your base, you have to fight them off. Ignoring it lets them succeed. They have been doing this my entire life. How can mainstream Dems still not understand how this works?

@lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social

They are being bigots, trampling the rights and dignity of trans people. They obviously do not give a shit about women’s sports or bathroom usage. Dems can win this issue if they would fight for it because their side is based on nothing and ours is based on justice.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻

Alki Point Healthy Street Sunny day and a 0.4 mile of car free protection is open for kids of all ages to ride back and forth all day 🚲 The last block finished this week makes it extra long. Good for family members with energy to expend? Plus there is a fun beach to explore!

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The new bike connection on S Henderson St is now open. We'll see you at Sunday's Rainier Beach Harvest Fest to celebrate. We'll also have free helmets! We'll be at the Rainier Beach Community Center from 2-5 PM on Sunday, 10/25. Project info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...

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David Naylor

@profcedar.bsky.social

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

youtube.comWhy does everything feel so off?YouTube video by Michael MacKelvie

Damn, Michael MacKelvie. Worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0R...

seattletimes.comComing soon near Ballard Locks: $600K waterfront ‘condos’ — for carsA nine-acre waterfront site on Seattle's Salmon Bay will soon host 72 individually owned condominium garages for collector vehicles.

A biking and walking trail on city land would supposedly destroy the delicate industrial character of this area, but this is fine?

Nathan Rouse@nathanrouse.bsky.social

Noooooo 😭😭😭

Car tires actually do kill salmon that orcas eat. This is 9 acres of car parking on the shoreline of our city’s most-watched salmon run location. If one were to actually protest (or file an environmental suit) against a city policy on behalf of orcas, why not here?

Sorry, folks, I think the car condos may have broken me. It’s just too on the nose in every way.

Nick, I have great news for you about how on-street parking works.

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The Needling

@theneedling.com

Millionaires Tax Means Local Magnate Can Only Afford One of Seattle’s New Waterfront Car Condos: tinyurl.com/54xb6te

A biking and walking trail on city land would supposedly destroy the delicate industrial character of this area, but this is fine?

Nathan Rouse@nathanrouse.bsky.social

Noooooo 😭😭😭

Nine acres of Seattle waterfront! What are we doing?!? How is this allowed under our environmental laws, but not a bike trail?

“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!

A biking and walking trail on city land would supposedly destroy the delicate industrial character of this area, but this is fine?

Nathan Rouse@nathanrouse.bsky.social

Noooooo 😭😭😭

Text exchange with @kellireef.bsky.social

Recent ideas for how to use the dormant industrial land on the south side of the ship canal: 1: Build autonomous war drone ships. 2: Condos for cars. Perhaps it’s time the city stepped in with a plan that would actually benefit the public.

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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!

A biking and walking trail on city land would supposedly destroy the delicate industrial character of this area, but this is fine?

Nathan Rouse@nathanrouse.bsky.social

Noooooo 😭😭😭

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!

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The Highland Park Way SW Connection Project has gone to bid. Contractors now submit bids to build the project. When completed, this project will create a more comfortable route for people to walk, roll, and bike between Highland Park and the Duwamish River Trail. www.seattle.gov/transportati...

seattlebikeblog.comEstate of Christian Salyer files lawsuit against Recology alleging the truck driver did not signal or slow before turningChristian (center) from a GoFundMe fundraiser for his family. The person driving the garbage truck did not signal or slow down before turning across the 12th Ave bike lane where Christian Salyer was riding June 1, a lawsuit (PDF) filed this week in King County Superior Court alleges. The truck "ran over" Salyer and killed him, the suit states. He was 30. Salyer's estate, led by his parents and sisters, are seeking unspecified damages from Recology and its subsidiary as well as the driver Theodore Malloy. The suit includes claims of wrongful death against Recology and Malloy as well as a claim of "Negligent Hiring, Retention, Supervision, Training, and Entrustment" against Recology.

Estate of Christian Salyer files lawsuit against Recology alleging the truck driver did not signal or slow before turning #SEAbikes #Seattle

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They'll say it's AI, but yes, it's true, you really can host a block party on your street for Halloween - for free. Here's where you can get details and apply (until October 28!): survey123.arcgis.com/share/a9fa7f... (p.s. it's not AI)

nbcwashington.comLime bans 1,000 accounts for underage riding in DC safety crackdownIt follows complaints that electric bikes and scooters are being driven unsafely and, in some cases, being used as the getaway vehicles in crimes.

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NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington.com

Lime, the company behind the popular green and white short-term rental bikes and scooters, said it has banned 1,000 accounts for allowing use by riders under 18.

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Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley.bsky.social

Update: I was wrong, there will be a special council meeting on Monday to approve Saka's traffic safety bill and Bob Kettle will be putting forward an amendment to strip out the historic district provisions. Someone tipped off the preservation folks about this so they had more time to organize.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social

There is no meeting next week on this, and the amendment has already been approved, but sure.

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Nick Fox-Gieg

@n1ckfg.bsky.social

We've needed a homegrown English-language equivalent to the Dutch "Stop de Kindermoord" for a while now and I think "Get Home Safe" is it. Say it sincerely to friends or sarcastically to enemies, it's got powerful "Bless your heart" energy.

Seattle Bike Blog@seattlebikeblog.com

I also think "Get Home Safe" could become a mainstay chant for bike safety protests going forward. It's such a basic message. It reminds everyone of home and the people we love who live there, and how getting to them is more important than any of this "cars vs bikes" wedge issue road rage bullshit.

Helping @ajc.com update their other top headlines to match their new style guide.

ajc.comA driver passed too close to cyclists. Now he could die in prison.A Georgia driver caught on video colliding with group of cyclists on a country road in Cherokee County could go to prison. He insists he did nothing wrong.

His fist passed too closely to a face, and then a person became concussed.

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OB Cycler

@obcycler.bsky.social

If you're 72 and you don't want to die in prison, I recommend not doing multiple attempted murders with a deadly weapon in front of people with cameras 🤷‍♂️

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social

This guy was caught on video committing one of the worst road rage incidents I've ever seen, plowing into a group of riders—and then he left the scene. Seriously, fuck the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for framing him as some sort of a victim. You are complicit assholes. www.ajc.com/news/2026/10...

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Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley.bsky.social

SDOT has a great map here that lets you see which neighborhoods are planning Halloween night street closures; currently there are a lot in North Seattle and none showing on the map in the Rainier Valley.

Seattle Department of Transportation@transportation.seattle.gov

TRICK OR TREAT, CLOSE YOUR STREET: the deadline to apply for Trick-or-Streets has been extended! Host friends and neighbors for Halloween fun, right on your street! It's free, fast, and easy. Details: https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/permits-and-services/permits/play-streets-and-block-parties

seattlebikeblog.comFollowing death, I-90 Trail reopens in Bellevue with construction zone flaggers rather than a detour: RIP James Rupert William PhillipsFrom the North Mercer Island/Enatai Sewer Upgrade Project email list. The I-90 Trail has reopened in Bellevue, and sewer construction crews will staff the trail with flaggers to help trail users through the area safely without the need for a detour. Users are advised to anticipate delays up to ten minutes long if crews are using the trail to move construction vehicles. The change went into effect Tuesday, less than a week after an SUV driver struck and killed a person biking on Bellevue Way SE at SE 30th Street October 15, which is adjacent to the trail detour route that was put in place October 12.

Following death, I-90 Trail reopens in Bellevue with construction zone flaggers rather than a detour: RIP James Rupert William Phillips #SEAbikes #Seattle

With a couple other stories I have coming, this week is shaping up to be among the saddest ever on Seattle Bike Blog. Our status quo transportation system is so incredibly cruel and unforgiving, and we cannot continue accepting it as normal.

What's happening in Toronto is a turning point of some kind, we just don't know exactly where we will be pointing when it is all over. I'm very proud of everyone putting themselves on the line to make this as difficult as possible for the Ontario government, which needs to pay a political price.

When I heard those Toronto protestors chanting, "Get Home Safe!" to the construction crews who were leaving after they put their bodies in the way to stop further removal of the Bloor Street bike lane, that hit me hard. It's so real. Why is it this hard to make our streets a little safer?

People deserve to get home safe. We all do. It's not too much to ask, it's the bare minimum.