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Bus riders of Seattle: This is exactly how much respect Mike Solan and his crew have for your time and safety.

Congrats to Mt Baker “Community” Club for successfully eliminating all upzones near Hunter Blvd. Wouldn’t want any renters getting access to the lake!

It's back! The House transportation committee just approved the Mosquito Fleet Act, again.
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In his latest e-newsletter Rob Saka takes credit for SAVING CURBY, the traffic safety median he personally wanted to remove since before he was elected & was ready to pay $2 MILLION to do it until he got widely ridiculed for his absurd vendetta. What an utterly shameless & pathetic laughingstock

Friendly reminder that MLK Way’s dangerous design is a local hazard and regional liability. Maintaining the current design is a choice that city leaders make everyday. Sound Transit will be implementing minor changes (pedestrian gates) later this year, but a full redesign by SDOT is long overdue.

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Excerpt from SDOT's Ballard Bridge Planning Study

Seattle's current plans call for this...abomination...at the south end of the Ballard Bridge but Rep. Julia Reed, with input from Councilmember Strauss, just submitted a state transportation budget request to signalize the intersection.

EFFECT: Allows a regional transit authority (RTA) to apply for land use and construction permits for its facilities before acquiring the real property and apply for construction and technical permits for its facilities before the local government makes a land use decision regarding those facilities, so long as the RTA provides proof of notice to the subject property owner at the time of the application. Requires a local government to accept applications from an RTA regardless of whether the RTA owns or has possession and use of the property subject to the application, so long as the application is otherwise complete. Exempts a division of land caused by the acquisition of a portion of an existing lot or tract by an RTA that is acquiring land to build RTA facilities. Removes the provision requiring applications submitted by an RTA for permits issued by cities and counties under the state building code be considered under the building permit ordinances in effect at the time the RTA Board chooses the route alignment and station locations of a rail fixed guideway system.

The state Senate's local government committee just approved SB 6309, which includes significant reforms to Sound Transit's permitting authority.
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Looking for Mayor Wilson to do some cool little quick-hit stuff like this. My advice: Pedestrianize some streets and put a stop sign at Mt Baker Beach (the one Bruce killed). I'll be the first one there posting about it

Do they not know “single-family zoning” has been gone for nearly a year now in all areas of the city? Even on small lots, people have been able to pursue 6-unit apartments on many sites deep in Craftsmanlands.

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This is the first time I’ve seen the @seattledot.bsky.social 2026 levy delivery plan. Some cool projects!

However about half the projects I was looking forward to in my neighborhood in last year’s plan just… never happened? And aren’t on this year’s plan? What gives @seattledot.bsky.social?

SEPA also does nothing to require us to revisit mistakes of the past even if they are causing enormous ongoing environmental impacts.

To the contrary, SEPA is a serious impediment to changing course, even if that course is heading to climate catastrophe.

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The word "transit" has not been used by Governor Ferguson's Bluesky account, ever.

MORE GREAT NEWS: The Delridge Triangle project is advancing. afcf1a83-e5ba-442d-aae3-d5d0dfcffbe2.usrfiles.com/ugd/afcf1a_a...

Crockett Plaza Crockett Plaza is a grassroots, community-led project to create a permanent pedestrian plaza at the heart of Queen Anne.

GREAT NEWS. SDOT is going to build Crockett Plaza!

SDOT greenlit a similar project in West Seattle on Friday: SW Lander Street, west of California Avenue.

Anne Frank didn’t die in a concentration camp of a gunshot wound or poison gas. She died in the camp of disease, likely typhus.

Now here in America in 2026 we’ve created our own concentration camps, are putting kids in them, and disease is running rampant.

The number of trees cut for this interchange project was in the *thousands.* They were stacked alongside I-90 for anyone to see.

This is what threatens orca and salmon. A Seattle apartment building helps protect them. SEPA should reflect that.

WSDOT: Hi SEPA we want to build a massive "diverging diamond" interchange on I-90 at SR-18 to facilitate additional sprawl is that cool?
SEPA: Sounds fine to me

City of Seattle: Hey SEPA, we'd like to allow people to build more homes in the heart of our city
SEPA: Slow down just a minute fella

The state is pushing Mercer Island, Duvall, and Bainbridge Island to legalize apartment buildings and Seattle won't even legalize them within walking distance of the region's biggest transit investments.

This is a staggering analysis.

If you thought OPCD acted as some sort of objective planning institution, this should completely erase that belief.

I could not have made a clearer picture of NIMBY ratf*cking. We need to know who let this come to pass.

Hard to see this when the OG “corridors” idea included parks and extended deep into exclusive high amenity neighborhoods like Mt Baker and Phinney Ridge.

Reducing capacity to add homes in our wealthy centrally located neighborhoods is… not great. Madrona, Magnolia, Queen Anne — these are all the kind of amenity rich and conveniently located places that should be welcoming many new neighbors.

Since Seattle OPCD didn't dare releasing the difference map of their downzones in the 2026 update, here are all the areas overlaid on Displacement Risk Index.

Blue = wealthy, exclusive, white neighborhoods
Red = neighborhoods @ high risk of being priced-out

Guess where all the new downzones are?

Here is the same thing but with every downzone area I can see circled. I count 37 total areas. Some are the neighborhood center shrinkage that we knew about, but others are... just entire corridors getting chopped

these maps are... wow.

Zoning Map Centers and Corridors Zoning Changes The map below shows proposed zoning changes released and transmitted to the City Council in January 2026 as part of the Centers and Corridors Legislation. OPCD has...

OPCD has released the final proposed zoning maps for Phase 2 of the Comprehensive Plan, implementing "Centers and Corridors."
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HB 2134 passed the House Transportation Committee 16-12 along party lines! (Republicans prefer the climate crisis to get worse.) Now it's on to the Rules Committee to get lined up for a floor vote.

After the Washington House's local government committee unanimously approved a bill legalizing scissor stairs last week, the Senate's housing committee just unanimously approved the companion bill.
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