Owen

Bruce Harrell's Space Needle thinking in action.

So the 2029 date is if the new batteries can't accommodate the gap? I found that detail confusing.

I need clarification ... Could the 2 and 12 routes be managed with off-wire operations using buses with upgraded batteries.

Sal Frelick

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

Right turn restriction from NB Westlake onto EB Denny is live!

Thanks @seattledot.bsky.social

I just want lower housing costs and I'm pretty sure most middle class folks do too.

Agreed, there will never be enough training data for complex legal problems.

Again, this is why they're so good as coding assistants or just believable chat bots...

I think it's a McLuhan thing: the medium (car) is the message

This precisely.

If the Supreme Court wants to play Calvinball it would be trivial to overwhelm them with lower court resistance.

It's impossible to have "legally binding" rulings when the court can't write logically coherent opinions, throws out precedent arbitrarily and often skips opinions entirely.

How can anyone infer anything from those rulings in novel situations?

District and circuit courts are the law now.

Despite my misgivings about Constantine, it does actually sound like ST is trying to fix the competence problem.

And I really should note that wild incompetence was only possible because of egregiously bad representation from Seattle's board delegation.

Thank you Bruce Harrell and Jenny Durkan.

The reason we are here is because of massively incompetent mismanagement. You cannot overstate how much Rogoff and Timm blew up this system.

Yes we need better design and planning. Unfortunately that probably means going back to the drawing board. But we have to fix the competence problem first.

It doesn't need to, though. 60 ft is extremely excessive. Crossrail's "eye of the needle" tunnel (internal diameter 6.2 m, external diameter 7.1 m) went within 60 cm of the Northern Line: learninglegacy.crossrail.co.uk/wp-content/u...

And what percentage of space do these 65% of users get?

Although we disagree with the conclusions from SDOT's traffic study, its traffic counts were very eye-opening:
• Over 3 times as many people use Denny Way to access areas east of I-5 than to access I-5 S
• Of the people continuing east, 35% do so in a car, 34% in a Route 8 bus, and 31% on foot

It's an especially appropriate response to reporting methods that are actively hostile to a functional democracy.

Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist # A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...

A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scenes as the public was kept in the dark about the upgrades.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

New records provide more detail than ever before on what was happening in the six months between a packed community meeting and an announcement that safety upgrades on Lake Washington Boulevard would be dramatically scaled back.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

The fan with the dump 61/62 here shirt got to meet Cal after the game and get a bat and ball autographed by Cal.

He deserves this

What the data says about dangerous driving and road rage in the U.S. There’s a fair amount of data indicating that Americans’ driving habits have worsened over the past five years, at least in some ways.

These people, combined with ubiquitous gun ownership, explains why there is more than one road rage shooting per day in the US.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Every time a driver has almost killed me they've also been furious at me. Sure, they're not thinking clearly because of adrenaline. But this also clarifies how many people should not be driving.

Responding to stress with aggression should disqualify people from holding a license.

I'm not sure how this plays generally but it surprises me how many people have been hammering the "drop-out" message.

My strong suspicion is that they deeply misunderstand what that signals to the median voter. And instead they're just revealing a bit of their own biases.

Regulate externalities not building forms.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America.

Goes back further. His first professional work was undermining the VRA. Dude's agenda has been clear for a long time.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

In reading this @anatosaurus.bsky.social piece, it's worth thinking about what strategies/tactics can be used by ALL Democratic candidates. Many successful candidates in red areas (like Jared Golden) succeed by bashing the party. Everyone can't do that. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Tiny House Village in Southeast Seattle Remains Stalled as Winter Approaches The village, now whittled down to just 14 tiny houses, has been in the works since 2023. The latest hurdle: A lease agreement between Nickelsville and the city.

In 2024, Tiffany Washington abruptly cancelled permits for a tiny house village only weeks before it was scheduled to break ground.

So instead of 15 tiny homes for people currently living outside, we get a vacant overgrown lot.

ericacbarnett.substack.com/p/tiny-house...

Oh look, another example of Harrell’s terrible management skills

Tiffany Washington, Deputy Mayor for Homelessness, refused to fill hotel rooms that the city paid for. Reason? She doesn’t like the program lead

Not the first time Washington has acted in favor of more homelessness, either

Listening to Federal Way's traffic engineer explain why a speed limit reduction isn't likely on a street next to a school after a serious crash - on a street where drivers are exceeding the 35 mph limit.

"It was a tragic situation that occurred out there...but realistically it's an outlier."

Iconic photo of Breezewood Pennsylvania with gas stations, fast food, etc

Which way western man?