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Absolutely crazy style how cars find a way to ruin everything they touch. Today it was a car cutting off a bus, causing a fender bender.
Dozens of commuters' days disrupted by one reckless driver's behavior.
Driving is not inconvenient enough.

I love public art installations that give off that "secret" kinda vibe. Definitely affirms what an asset Eastrail is for the eastside.

Public art pillars with various colored stripes, next to eastrail and the east side sound transit maintenance facility

Well these are fun

I highly encourage engaged urbanist advocates in the Puget Sound region to apply!

I've had raising cane's before yall. I promise you it's not worth waiting an hour for.

A bike rack next to a lone chair bolted to the ground, only big enough for a single person

Genuinely curious how much use this very random chair gets.
Not near a bus stop or other destination. My guess is it was added to be akin to a street bench, without being (**God forbid** /s) an actual bench that could be used by someone to sleep on.
Feels rather incongruous.

9 times out of 10, when public officials decry issues of "public safety," their grievances are far more precisely aligned with **consumer comfort**
Understanding this distortion is key to deciphering so much of American politics.

Thank you so much for the kind words!

Everyone's gotta sleep somewhere 🤷

Exactlyyy. Squashing it all entirely is just lazy governance tbh.

The party of anti-humanity continues to be nauseatingly anti-human.

My thoughts exactly! That kind of space is the bedrock of democracy in my mind.

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate your thoughts and share your hopes for our parks 🏞

Op-Ed: Shortening Seattle Park Hours Was Misguided, Failed to Promote Safety » The Urbanist # Seattle’s Summer Safety Plan and its earlier closing time for city parks is bad news for people who count on evening park access, including artistic communities. Crime data does not support the clai...

Ngl; I feel a bit of cognitive dissonance trying to promote my own work while the US continues its spiral descent.
Even still, I believe above all in the power and need of art and community, and this is what guided my research and writing here for @theurbanist.org

RIP to the og Floridian

Idk it's actually kinda weird that there's still this much surface parking within a block of the light rail station in Seattle's highest density area outside of downtown.
Idk if more development is planned on these plots but it's been 4 years this station's been open, and it's still parking.

I think you're right to an extent; my guess is there is just room for exceptions that is probably a bit too broad so that these projects slipped through the cracks, so they're now stuck with D+ bike lanes for the foreseeable future.

The two that come to mind are Broadway (north of Roy) and Stone Ave in Fremont

Why Seattle has continued to repave streets and then apply painted bike lanes that are directly between the door zone of parked cars and moving traffic, is absolutely beyond me

Which Seattle neighborhood's drivers are most hostile to bicyclists and why is it Ballard?

The earlier closing is a recent change thanks to Bruce Harrell 🙃 happened at Alki, Gas Works, and Magnuson. They called it the "summer safety strategy" but I think the real impetus was noise complaints at a few parks.
Definitely a ham-fisted response, regardless.

"When you're driving a car, you're holding a loaded gun."
This is a phrase I use regularly when discussing the woes of car-centric society; it may be dramatic, but it's not hyperbolic.
It only takes a brief lapse of judgment pointed in the wrong direction, and suddenly someone(s) is maimed or dead.

Fun fact - the US has more miles of rail than any other on the planet (yes, including China)
Almost all that rail is owned/operated by the largest freight rail companies in the world.
Imagine what we could do with what we already have if we actually invested in passenger service
#nationalizetherails

It's almost funny, as someone who is underemployed, with experience/willingness to be a server, delivery bike rider, etc., to feel like I have **fewer options** to make money because of Seattle's very high minimum wage for tipped workers/delivery drivers.
Unintended consequences are a bitch.

Can relate. I like the term "bike path" or "cycle tracks," as "bike lane" for some reason seems to be a little more incendiary for the auto devotees

I'm not sure why this stop didn't get the same grade-level adjustments that were made for bus stops just up the road in either direction on 65th!! Maddening

Thank you for sharing so quickly. I was madly refreshing the King County elections page and still this account was where I saw the news first 🥳

My heart is beating faster as it gets closer to today's ballot drop 🥵

Who needs sports when you can be watching the day by day updates on the Seattle mayoral election?? Got me sweatin 🥵🥵