Kelli Refer

BTW, that's something like 340 cities.

Oh good to know!

Oh the sky zone that is next to the Montlake Terrace light rail station has been a game changer. Same with the Kraken Ice Complex by Northgate and the Lynnwood Rec Center which has a great pool/ waterslide!

I once wrote a whole article for @theurbanist.org about the lack of access to swim lessons!

Beaches that are staffed with lifeguards, easy to access and affordable swim lessons! Lighting in parks so kids can play outside in Winter.

My kingdom for a playground with shade!

Your whole pinned thread was excellent! I love this and want more of it.

Especially as we are seeing so much horrific news in the US, I need space to dream and imagine how to make the world better.

I’d love to connect. I work mostly in transportation but really want our public spaces to be pedestrianized and made friendly for teen girls and children!

I love this space! Especially how it is covered, well lit and is public. The seating provides an intimate area where you can be with friends and other people would likely leave you alone.

What kind of public spaces appeal and feel safe for teen girls? What kind of parks and plaza’s would they want to gather in?

Part of my vision for public space is to reclaim it from cars and hostile/ liminal plazas to places people want to be in.

What would a child friendly city look and feel like? My mind instantly goes to safe streets, clean public bathrooms, and whimsy built into daily life. Swings at bus stops, more public art and street food vendors. Most importantly we’d need a culture of care, watching out for each other in public.

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I got a hole in mine and got a cute patch to repair it and it adds a nice bit of color and whimsy.

The SAVE Act has passed the House, making it harder for 69 million American women to vote.

This isn’t about voter fraud or undocumented immigrants.

This is about suppressing the female vote.

They want to repeal the 19th and this is a step in that direction.

Frozen waffles. I thought they were a stupid food. Then my child was able to wake up on a Saturday and make herself a frozen waffle and my spouse and I could sleep longer. They are a useful food. I see that now.

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true:

There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

I go to yoga about once per week and I aspire to swim laps way more often than I actually do, but I consistently walk and/ or bike at least a few miles per day.

Without riding my bike and walking for transportation, it would be very hard to work physical movement into my schedule.

I love that running errands or dropping my daughter off at school helps me stay active everyday.

I said this before but Americans simply can not comprehend how much wealth there is. We constantly under project how much tax revenue we will raise from taxing the wealthy. The original estimate was $50 million.

I am very sorry for your loss.

Reducing VMT is the most important goal. Achieving this improves safety outcomes and meets sustainability goals.

I am uninterested in extractive big tech/ data surveillance as a method towards better safety outcomes. I want public transit, bike networks and pedestrianized streets.

I am skeptical. I do not like that they are outsourcing labor to other countries with no oversight on when/ where/ how there is human intervention.

I’m very skeptical of data that is cherry picked from the company that would profit from their expansion.

Finally it wouldn’t decrease VMT.

It is February 10th, do you think all the Summer camps that my child might enjoy are completely full?

I guess I need to sit down on the computer and drop a few grand for some camps that happen in August and involve going to a playground and a coloring sheet soon.

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get.

To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Age Verification?
I spent Friday nights going to Blockbuster

I don’t know, I love riding my ebike around Seattle. There is still room to improve infrastructure, especially in South Seattle, but I love the hills and water views.

"A preliminary analysis of Vision Zero policies showed that the 17 early adopter cities experienced a smaller increase in fatalities per 100,000 population (+15%) than the other 83 cities (+40%) (Figure 2)."

Fewer deaths are always better than more.
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For some fucking reason. I’m a firework hater.

Are you our neighbor? Or is this a city wide thing?

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?