Nick

Katie Wilson has made multiple comments about wanting a countywide transit measure and Seattle can fulfill their existing obligations without going to voters.

Seems like Zahilay just doesn’t care about suburban bus service?

Yea same. It’s mostly because we just don’t have greenway standards like Vancouver

Yea at least it’s possible I suppose. The carriage house setup is still a huge upgrade from townhomes too

Greenways are way more pleasant than PBLs imo tho but point taken.

Vancouver BC has totally mastered them. They’d make 26th alternating one ways and add modal filters to get the traffic volumes low.

Obviously side setbacks are an impediment to this but do you think without them, this is the typology we’d get? Or will it just be bigger 3 story buildings?

Do you think parking like this will pencil?

SR-520: A Case of Bad Forecasting? | Sightline Institute Here’s a blast from the past: WSDOT’S early forecasts, dating from 2002, for SR-520 traffic after tolling was scheduled to start. Depending on the tolling scenario, they predicted that the floating br...

When Seattle added tolls to our 520 bridge, volumes reduced 40%

Would the proposed diverter at genese even solve this?

Also is this normal or just because of the 1st Ave bridge being closed this week?

Iceland does it and their erupts all the time

I need a filter for “fits on the Amtrak cascades”

How is it less equitable? The people that live in Columbia city don’t need to drive to Columbia city

Ligne de Petite Ceinture — Wikipédia

Ms. Hidalgo felt compelled to reiterate that the decision to install a tram...had long been made rather than reopen the Petite Ceinture: "It must be acknowledged that the Petite Ceinture often runs right next to homes, and I do not want to impose on residents...a location with intense rail activity"

We need a YIMBY movement for transit construction

BRING THEM TO SEATTLE!

More doors = faster boarding and faster buses mean frequent buses!

The WA GOP should break away from the national party and rebrand

I thought you were talking about an act that commits us to the climate lol

There are definitely a number of things drivers can do if they're running early

If you’re pushing housing in lowrise n’hoods, eliminating useless sideyards is the unlock for the urban design everybody says they want.
In exchange for sideyards that no one uses, you get better units, lush interior courtyards, space for trees and play, higher density and lower energy use.

A very difficult read

What wonderful ideas!

Reading "Implementation of Zürich’s Transit Priority Program" and love that city staff drove buses to understand the operations of them better!

transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/defaul...

Dense Forests for Dense Housing Phase 2 of Seattle's Comprehensive Plan will focus on how we build neighborhood centers, but as currently planned, each property can be 85-100% paved. We propose pocket forests with a Miywaki-style mi...

Tree Action Seattle is proposing a number of amendments to Phase 2 of the Comprehensive Plan (upzoning of neighborhood centers).

One amendment would allow the existing amenity area requirement to be fulfilled by *depaving* nearby streets/parking parking.

Yea never is a bit strong. Just saying the things to be defensive against are totally different

Seems like AVs are doing good at avoiding things humans do (speeding, running red lights, breaking the law) but also have new problems human drivers never get into that the system is not built to be defensive against (blocking roads, passing school buses, driving against a one way, etc)

Excited to finally get this parkland back

With railroads, electrification makes the product so much better too (unlike with cars)

What happened this time?

We need annual PEC awards like the Oscar’s

Crowning you Particularly Effective Citizen like @streetcrafting.bsky.social

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