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@amysundberg.bsky.social just a heads-up, there's a little editing error in your recent article

Our thoughts are with the family & friends of the person who lost their life in this crash. Highways do not belong in our cities, full stop. So long as Bellevue is a city of stroads, wide intersections, & freeway offramps, these tragedies will keep happening. They are incompatible with #VisionZero.

What's the status of transit projects awaiting federal funds? I built a tracker: www.thetransportpolitic.com/openlines/fe... There are 20 transit projects that should have been funded by the Trump administration by now... but are waiting. For each project, you can see delays & cost increases ⏬

I love living on the border of First Hill and Pioneer Square and taking a ferry from SeaTac Airport to West Seattle. It's too bad about what happened to Lake Union though.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year #SEAbikes #Seattle

8 hours later and the best SDOT could do was add a few cones. If these were in the car lanes do you think they'd still be there?

Who do you want to have the final say on street safety projects in historic districts: 1) The Seattle Department of Transportation’s Chief Transportation Safety Officer Or 2) Historic boards SDOT could consult historic boards to ensure a continuity of character without giving them a veto on safety

Route 8’s eastbound on-time performance is on track to exceed 80% in September 2026. This will be the first time eastbound Route 8 trips meet Metro’s 80% on-time goal in at least 7 years.

I have 24 hours to dispute 100 dmca takedowns or we lose @gamechops.com

FYI, I will be grabbing a bunch of these Metro World Cup signs (and maps) today before they're tossed. Reach out if you'd like one and I'll let you know which I've got to choose from.

I collected metrics this week on my commute home from Westlake on the new @fixthel8.bsky.social bus lane. Going from Westlake to Capitol Hill Station reliably takes less than 10 minutes now! One trip to CHS took less than 7. It's a game-changer.

I’m not a “fire them all” kind of person but the traffic engineers who got this so dramatically wrong need to fundamentally reexamine their assumptions.

Power's out in the neighborhood because someone crashed their e-bike into a power pole. Still a chaotic scene 7 hours later. jk it was a car

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It’s incredible how a fucking bike lane gets delayed for 15 years in Ballard over “environmental review” and we just decide cars return to pike place in 6 weeks with no process

The principles underlying Vision Zero in Seattle are excellent but the culture change hasn't happened and so SDOT is continuing to build and rebuild deadly streets. Here is my 🧵thread of actions that can help Vision Zero back on track.

Some things I've learned about legislative advocacy, and I think my record speaks for itself. 1. Start by asking for everything you want. Stop preemptively negotiating against yourself. The process of passing the bill will whittle it down. Why started with a whittled down product?

We saved an archive of all of them. You can find them here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

after 19 years, the legend returns 🥲🥲🥲

With just a few minor modifications we could easily make Seattle Center accessible to cars. It's frankly quite problematic that people can't just drive up to the International Fountain or the Mural Amphitheatre

Too many people have been killed on Seattle’s streets in recent weeks. These tragedies are preventable. Tell Seattle leaders to improve intersection safety, require side guards on large trucks, and prioritize Vision Zero. Take Action: actionnetwork.org/letters/plea...

I don't understand why parking enforcement everywhere tries to treat their job as some sort of friendly negotiation to do whatever they can to avoid giving the car driver a ticket. Just literally write the ticket. No questions, no negotiation, no extralegal grace period... just write the ticket. 🫠

Her direct quote: "You can propose a sales tax for public safety, and no one blinks an eye. You can propose a sales tax for roads, and no one blinks an eye. But when a progressive mayor proposes a sales tax for public transit, all of a sudden some people are very concerned about taxes."

This is the space between parked cars and same direction traffic with a small car hugging the centerline. Imagine it’s a box truck and there is traffic in the other lane. And they decided to pass you, on a bike. Tell me they”gave space” and it was a “freak accident”. Fuck all the way off.

RapidRide G hit a huge milestone last month seeing 7,325 weekday average boardings Its high water mark is now at over 3,250 riders per mile. A single digit number of cities have a bus line with a ridership per mile half that high and only a few with ridership per mile higher

In a post on X, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith said the booing graduates are “reminding us that AI should serve people, not replace them.” That they needed reminding in the first place is the whole problem.

Some heroes don't wear capes

Turns out Westlake Park really needed a coffee kiosk.

In just 17 years, Seattle went from not having light rail to having the most ridden system in the nation. We’ve proven how leadership & investment can change a city and people’s lives for the better

On the plus side, now we have proof that transit is taking cars off the road!

Kyoto University Hospital is running the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug that grew brand-new teeth in mice. Humans grow two sets and stop. The drug aims to give us a third.

A reminder that Molly Moon Neitzel signed a petition and gave a statement to stop bike lanes from going in near her shop in Bellevue. Salt & Straw, on the other hand, works with a charity to make sure kids in Portland have bikes. Vote with your dollars!

And Sweet Alchemy.

This could be the most important week for mass transit in Seattle since voters rejected the 2nd Forward Thrust initiative in May 1970. On Thursday, the Sound Transit board will consider a resolution from board chair (and Snohomish County Exec) Dave Somers that would gut ST3. We have to stop it. 🧵

It feels incredibly hypocritical for @cascade.org leadership to congratulate Mayor Wilson for this when they chose to spend money on full size mailers endorsing her opponent who opposed this program. cascade.org/news/2026/05...

Phase 1 of @mayorofseattle.bsky.social ‘s Denny Way Plan is done! ✅ We’re excited for boosted Route 8 speed and reliability and can’t wait for Phase 2 this August!!

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Cellphone data shows a decline of 42% in Canadians visiting the United States, higher than the 25% drop found in border crossing estimates. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the biggest decrease (65%). We visited there in 2019.

Roses are red Bus lanes are too Now, so is Denny Way West of 2nd Avenue Thank you @seattledot.bsky.social for this Mother's Day gift!

I am headed up to the Queen Anne Farmers Market spring preview day this morning to meet with SDOT and start planning Crockett Plaza. www.crockettplaza.org

The part where the Waterfront did a bait and switch by showing generously wide and direct renderings for their bike/scooter trail in the design phase, but then actually built an unnecessarily narrow and windy route? bsky.app/profile/qagg...

I know you're facing a lot, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social but hear me out. Make Westlake pedestrian-only again. One block, that's it.

Letting business/property owners override the Vision Zero safety team based on vibes is par for the course at SDOT and needs to change. Making intersections safer by improving visibility is a proven strategy. Of the proposed locations with pedestrian collisions, 0 remain in the plan.

Tom D. continues to crush it on NextDoor.

This literally just happened to me