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Opinion: Slow Transportation Should Be a Human Right — Streetsblog USA American culture, and particularly American transportation culture, is profoundly rooted in the idea that traveling fast is best — because if we don't, that culture insists, we won't be able to make o...

I've said this before and I'll say it again; efficiency can be important in transportation, but it is not everything. When we need them, we should be able to choose ways of movement that emphasize ease, our sensory experiences, our connections to other human beings. It can be such a balm.

It is Embrace The Suck season in Seattle, and I suggest you do.

I tried to warn you

Who has got tips on how to get a 1-year-old to agree with wearing a bike helmet? She absolutely hates it.

One Long Seattle, Connected By Our Love Of Seafood

The AI Kalshi ads make want to live in dark, mysterious woods and write long manifestos about the fall of mankind. Abhorrent.

It's a volume problem, not a timing problem!

Thinking about a guy's long rant on a random Instagram page about how Seattle's signal timing is bad and causes traffic, and Seattle should emulate Los Angeles' much better signal timing. To which I wanted to reply: so your big pitch is that you want to make Seattle traffic more like Los Angeles?

This is an absolutely incredible piece of reporting that rightfully identifies the cultural barriers to safer streets. The Facebook comment quoted in the article is a remarkable commonplace sentiment. You cannot design culture away.

America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

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Their cargo bike is about $1800 too (I have it and love it)

Slow Imp4ct

I doubt this is the last time we will hear this story, albeit in other locations, in the next year.

Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.

If one feels so strongly that AVs are necessary because driving by people is too unsafe, they should take that idea further and support reducing the need to drive in all or most circumstances. We don’t need AVs to make safety improvements, and we shouldn’t get stuck on tech fixes. Gift link

hepatitis B - welcome back!

From the Seattle community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Seattle community

Frightening thread of people sharing their experiences of living near Interstate 5 in Seattle: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

chub baby standing on my legs with toe socks visible in the leggy distance

toe sock Saturday

cut up spatchcock chicken on a wire rack

everything else

first Thanksgiving at our house: spatchcock chicken, spiral ham, apple salad, brussels sprouts, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole.

Well put.

yeah this rules

😉

5 coats of paint.

We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app

new BONUS EPISODE about a HUGE FUCK-OFF ARCH with @whatahellofawaytodad.com

There's zero chance of this ever happening, but that isn't because of it being a bizarre idea. It's a very sensible idea, but politically impossible. The gnashing of teeth about modest bus improvements in the area was astonishing. I vote new bike and ped bridge at 3rd, personally.

We're going to be reading smug and misinformed comments about ebikes for the next 20 years because of this.

I love our marsupial friend. A special creature to be envied and cherished.

The best way to cook turkey is to roast and confit a duck instead.

Just an excellent Saturday, all things considered.

Put festive lights on the cargo bike tonight. Did not have to read any Facebook comments all day. Cooked a spatchcock chicken (I can't recommend this enough, it was perfect) in preparation for Thanksgiving. I have also developed an entire rant against turkey, a disgusting seasonal dish.