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Yep. This is Seattle big time. Lake Union Park has great metaphors from a drone shot that nobody at ground level sees. It is completely lifeless, devoid of activity and recreation. Imagine if it had a huge playground, basketball & pickleball courts, and a mini soccer pitch?

No zoning
No community review
No process

And looks great.

NE 124th Street is fully underwater on a King County Department of Local Services camera

Carnation Duvall Road is fully underwater

Heck of a time to be in the process of dismantling King County's climate office, honestly.

This gas station was transformed into an amazing urban space!

Browsing Facebook is dangerous. Cause you might hit upon great news about TOD near a new light rail station and then find out it’s going to take multiple years to even start. Then you read the comments and they’re all complaining about affordable housing and not enough parking

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

I just found out every house in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle pays $650 annually to the neighborhood community council to fund a $635,000 “near full time” private security patrol to “augment the SPD”. Saw it driving around with a full light bar lighting up the street as it drove by

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol · Dec 8 🚨#BREAKING: The University of North Carolina Asheville has completely REMOVED all of its "ALL-GENDER" bathroom signs. It has replaced them with "SINGLE OCCUPANCY RESTROOM" signs.

There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.

Is Seattle doing any of this?

Bollards with tables on top in Naples, Italy. Photo by me.

Bollard-top beverage tables are my niche brand of urbanism.

I was told everyone was leaving.

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I’m game for better micromobility parking management, but it’s pretty rich that a scooter Find It, Fix It report starts a timer, but they can’t even be bothered about vehicle parking violations unless it’s been there for 3 days

Park Hyatt seattle with parked cars on sidewalk

Park Hyatt Seattle with parked cars on sidewalk

Turns out Grand Hyatt found a valet trick - park on the sidewalk

Transforest at the Denny substation, a large transformer tower that turns into a blue tree at the top

Cities need more big-ass art.

“When people think of ‘Downtown’ in this region, they almost exclusively think of Downtown Seattle, and perhaps secondarily Downtown Bellevue or Downtown Tacoma…”

The 578 was completely full leaving downtown Seattle including riders standing in the entirety of the middle aisle.

I think everyone but about 8-10 people got off at Federal Way

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Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 8-mile, 3-station extension to Federal Way today!

This is the system's 4th new segment opened in less than 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!

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Federal Way Downtown stop entrance just before the ribbon cutting

Federal Way Downtown station during ribbon cutting

Lamp art at Federal Way Downtown station

Link Light Rail train arriving at Federal Way Downtown station

Happy Link Light Rail Extension Day to all who celebrate!

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The government is not and should not be run like a business because it is not a business, it is the government

Hope this helps

Christmas tree pen

1st & Pike Plaza is a temporary Christmas tree pen, so if you live downtown and need one check it out!

Wembley Stadium.

POV: You turned your stadium car park into a dense, amenity-rich neighborhood.

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Reminder: induced demand is good when it comes to walking, rolling