Traffic

Just watched a car driver pass this big line of traffic that my bus is stuck in driving down the center turning lane. Rainier is such a failure of design

Waiting for a late 8 to get to a #WeekWithoutDriving access ride along and it's wheelchair section is full. Unreliable buses mean more people waiting for a single bus and more likely that the only 2 seats i can use will be full.

So excited to gear up for #WeekWithoutDriving with a King County Council proclamation!

We know not everyone can go an entire week without driving. If it's 1 trip, 1 day or simply reflecting on your options when you do have to grab the keys, you can still participate in #WeekWithoutDriving

Currently @councilmember-amr.bsky.social is the only nondriver on council & I think it's clear that she came with a different set of comp plan priorities

#WeekWithoutDriving is 1 week away! Having electeds who are willing and wanting to understand the experiences of nondrivers matters and impacts legislation throughout the year. Ask your Councilmembers to participate! @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social

A line of people wait for an elevator

This elevator line encapsulates the Overlook walk experience for people in wheelchairs

Image with text reading "Seattle City Council Candidate Forum on Disability Issues D2 D8 D9 July 14th, 2025 5:30 - 8, Centilia Cultural Center, Beacon Hill"

Join us next Monday, July 14th, from 5:30 - 8 for a special City Council candidate forum focused on disability issues in Beacon Hill!

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The 46th District Democrats endorse Katie @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor -- and it wasn't close. She got 75% of the vote, with the next closest candidate at 28%. Wow. You love to see this too!

so cool to see children testifying against a housing plan because their moms told them the city council was trying to kill the environment by chopping down all the pretty trees

Stanford bill expanding job opportunities for people with disabilities signed into law Sen. Stanford (2nd from left), Gov. Ferguson. Anna Zivarts and Cecelia Black  from  Disability Rights Washington  are to the right in the ph...

“Even if we manage to live somewhere with reliable transit or find a job that allows for remote work, too often employers will still list a driver’s license as a condition of employment — even when the job has nothing to do with driving.”

It’s happening!!! will be an awesome organizing tool to build transit rider power and leadership pipelines for nondrivers

Take action to save the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library Our allies at Washington Council of the Blind and National Federation of the Blind of Washington have asked for help to preserve funding for the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTTBL), wh...

If you're a Washington resident, please send your state legislators a message through this action alert to preserve state funding for the library:

Action Alert: Support SB 5680 - Right to Repair for Wheelchairs Last week, the Washington State Senate unanimously approved SB 5680 to give people with disabilities the right to repair their own wheelchairs. Now we need your help to pass it out of the House Consum...

Help us get a wheelchair right to repair bill passed! Wheelchair users spend weeks and months, often in dangerous situations, waiting for basic repairs they could often do at home. Urge your reps to pass it in the house!
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People at a bus stop rallying for MOAR BUS! Signs say things like Lake Forest Park for Bus Rapid Transit, Less Fuss, More Bus, and so forth. The protesters are men and women of various ages, from 3 1/2 and 10 up. One woman is in a wheelchair, and a bicycle is visible in the background. Buses are for everyone y’all!

The protest group greets the bus with friendly signs. The bus riders seemed to enjoy pro-bus advocacy.

It was nice when the bus came for our pro-bus rally. Photo above shows rally organizers @kirkhovenkotter.com and @katielorah.bsky.social and other local transit advocates. Here you can also see co-organizer @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Washington.

New sidewalks, bus lanes & lighting! What's the controversy?!

This bill is still a battle. NCART (representing vendors) and therapy associations are lobbying hard to block a majority of repairs, arguing that many people are too medically complex to direct their own care. Waiting for repairs in a broken wheelchair is far more dangerous than giving people agency

2 national companies have a near monopoly on wheelchair sales & repairs. Wheelchair users have to wait weeks and months for repairs, leaving us completely immobile. SB 5680 would require manufacturers to provide owners with access to parts & information needed to do repairs ourselves

Sign reading "my body my chair my right to repair" in front of spare wheel

A group of wheelchair users holding signs and spare tires sit in front of Washington State's capitol building

A group of wheelchair users holding signs sit inside a hallway outside house chambers

A group of 11 wheelchair users sitting inside a hearing room with Representative Gregerson

Proud to be part of a wheelchair led group advocating for our right to repair our own wheelchairs. We've been fighting the wheelchair vendor lobby to keep ableist exemptions blocking most repairs out of the bill. Yesterday, SB 5680 narrowly passed out of committee without any of NCART's amendments

New SR 509 Expressway to Sea-Tac Airport opens in October—but it’ll cost you A direct SR 509 Expressway is set to open in October, connecting I-5 to Burien after years of construction near I-5 and the Kent Des-Moines Road.

Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.

We need everyone to sign in PRO for HB 1418, a bill that would allow transit agencies to appoint 2 transit riders to voting members of agency boards. I don't know what's scary about rider representation, but a lot of people are opposed.

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Amplifying this! If only the preservation board cared so much about people with disabilities...

Zoning map of area

…leveraging affordable housing subsidies to build a complex for transit reliant residents with lots of wheelchair accessible units. The I looked up the zoning. In the proposed comp plan, is slated to stay a neighborhood (low rise) residential zone. Literally 200 ft from a light rail stop. 2/

Great interview here. @ceceliablack.bsky.social really demystifies the One Seattle growth plan, w/ special attention to how restrictive zoning impacts people with disabilities, who are too often overlooked in the planning process. www.kuow.org/stories/how-...

“Combined with our dominance of single-family zoning, this means that the majority of our city prohibits the types of housing most likely to be accessible, leaving many neighborhoods with very few options for people with mobility disabilities.”- @ceceliablack.bsky.social

"Let’s embrace the moment to create a different city with accessible, multi-generational communities that support active mobility for people of all ages and abilities in every neighborhood."

Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.

New York City Sues Queens Library Architects Over Lack of Accessibility (Published 2023) City officials argued that the building was not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act and other laws.

The Overlook Pavillion feels similar to Steven Holl's critically acclaimed and wholly inaccessible Queens library. Why do we continue to uplift the idea that powerful design has to exclude people with disabilities? www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/n...

As disabled people, we have to have a conversation about propping up organizations that have no intention of incorporating our feedback

What's even more infuriating is listening to @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social present on best practices for organizing an accessibility advisory committee which they started in 2024. 13 years AFTER its founding and 8 months before the Overlook Pavillion opened.

"It’s lazy work, and any architects who are operating in this way are simply shit architects. We know better—we know that sticking a crappy elevator in the back is dated and ableist, right? So how did we let this happen?"