Blake Trask

Each mayor has to pedestrianize one street for every point scored by the opposing team.

Hey, this is a friendly thread! ☺️

I just want both teams’ urbanist mayors @wutrain.bsky.social & @mayorofseattle.bsky.social to make some sort of sweet transit oriented bet on the Super Bowl. Winner gets a lifetime CharlieCard or ORCA Card?

What do you plan to do?

What do you plan to do?

What action do you plan to take?

Do something

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Imagine if we were a constitutional republic with a legislature

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Well, there's at least one member of the King County Council thinking about the future of RapidRide and the fact that we've gotten much slower at delivering transit upgrades intended to increase frequency, speed, and reliability.

Seattle Fire Code has its own provisions for fixed guideway transit which are more restrictive than NFPA 130

For example, it doesn't allow escalators & elevators to count toward egress capacity under any circumstance, and enclosed emergency exists must provide at least 50% of egress capacity

Carpe diem

Absolutely insane that my life has become texting with local church pastors to try and find a safe place to hold an emergency meeting for parents at my kid’s’ preschool to figure out how to respond to the federal government kidnapping neighbors.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, “super excited” to walk them around the city that’s too dangerous to ride in. HAMILTON, ON - The 8 and 10 year old children were ecstatic with their new bikes and “Cannot wait to walk them to school” They are hoping that on weekends their parents might drive them to the park to pedal around slowly on the multiuse path - “it would be nice to sit on the bike and ride it too, but I don’t wanna get my hopes up”

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in.

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An old Jump Bike lying on the side of a Seattle street

Always fun to run into the remains of bike share past. #seabikes

most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice

Smith Tower standing out while most of Seattle’s skyline stands obscured by low lying clouds

Moody Seattle skyline throwback

my undergraduate thesis compared transpo/land use between Van and Sea metro areas and this difference was one of my central conclusions

What an inspiring outpouring of support for Harbor Island Studios this week!

Shoutout to the community for jumping into action and to King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci for her leadership in supporting film industry jobs and the creative economy.

#KeepFilmInWA

Playground in the dark with a well lit parking lot in the background

Often, Seattle playgrounds go dark at sunset due to a lack of lighting while the nearby parking lots are well lit

lol (a) I’m not her (b) she didn’t endorse “instead of” as you infer

TBH I'm not sure there would still be a RapidRide program if Claudia Balducci hadn't been on the county council after 2020.

Local Control Can Work to Solve Our Housing Crisis: Here's How - PubliCola By King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci If we’ve learned nothing else from the last couple decades of explosive growth in…

Claudia has been leading on affordable housing and it’s making an impact on shaping our county’s housing goals publicola.com/2024/06/06/l...

Updating my LEGO White House

My sincere hope for the Mariners is that every move they make from now to Opening Day is marked by new ambition. You just got your teeth kicked in, but you were a bad pitching change away from your first World Series, and in a year when much of your rotation was banged up. Go get better.

JUST SAW A FOUR CAR TRAIN ON MERCER ISLAND - !!!! That’s it just had to get it out there so I don’t hyperventilate.

Not sure about this but would love to learn more!

How Ballard and West Seattle Light Rail Became a $30 Billion Undertaking » The Urbanist # Since voters approved West Seattle and Ballard Link in 2016, the two projects have been caught in a perfect storm of factors that led to the eye-popping cost estimates that we have today. While the ...

NEW // How Ballard and West Seattle Light Rail Became a $30 Billion Undertaking

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