Lauren

Local Spokane or local Seattle? 😬

Ah, found your website. All of Skamania then?

Hi, I’m from Spokane and have been doing some investigating and writing about Flock here. Can you tell me which Flock org is affected by the non-renewal? Is it all of Grant County or one for a smaller city?

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...

A Sneak Peek at Shared Streets Coming to Seattle » The Urbanist # A trove of documents obtained from City of Seattle through public disclosure requests shows work is proceeding gradually but steadily inside the transportation department to take advantage of Washin...

…in case you’re wondering what’s going on behind the scenes with shared streets…

a reminder that electric scooters have speed limiters and everyone is getting press crying about e-bikes

In a civilized society, this would be illegal.

Disgustingly selfish.

Hmm it sounded like maybe a news one

You know who i am talking about, right? You’ve observed this behavior before?

map of San Francisco showing much of its west side zoned for much larger buildings than were long allowed

Congratulations to San Francisco, which just re-legalized 4+ story buildings on 60% of its land.

Inner Eastside for All is our plan to do something similar here in PDX. Join us!

www.axios.com/local/san-fr...

I was walking on the centennial trail today and a prominent Spokane politician ran by me listening to a podcast *with no headphones*.

I want to shame them for this behavior but politely

I thiiiink the only cameras added in the past year were red light ones at mission and Greene, but you’re right — speed ones could have been down in the previous period or something

Yeah its pretty terrifying to share the road with this :/

Seemingly, which is baffling?!

wtf

it is kinda wild that you can OD on something you can buy at a convenience store

Downzoning was used by cities around the world to preserve neighborhood aesthetics & protect property values.

New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation

Cleaning leaf-clogged bikes lanes on Seattle’s Eastside — using bike power Fall in the Seattle area means lots of leaves in bike lanes. Slippery, soggy leaves can be dangerous on two wheels. Now, volunteers in Kirkland have a clever, new tool to clean bike lanes from the sea...

"When Charlie Liban rides his e-bike through Kirkland, he doesn't avoid the hazards of leaf-covered bike lanes. He rides right through them, picking up slippery leaves as he goes. Liban presses a button on his handlebars and whir-whir-whir: a circular, horizontal brush starts spinning behind him."

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

Happy Thanksgiving

I think they are old school ALPR. They've been there since 2019. www.google.com/maps/@47.662...

Yeah the one cluster on deflock that I’m unsure about is near the maple street bridge. They aren’t flock, but I’ll go check them out today to see what they really are.

And most of those that you would think are in the city are in the county (the city is very oddly shaped)

Not to hate on the effort, but the city ones are already dead. The money was allocated to buy them, then the money was clawed back. So they were never installed.

Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.

In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:

You’re doing all the real work!!

Except rolls. I like rolls.

The tough part about huge pieces of private property like Safeway centers is that the city can only place them on public property. So sometimes they can’t get them close to the doors.

Also, if you take another option for your date, you can both drink!

(I’m probably kidding myself about the numbers of people who drink and drive though.)

How to take alt transport to downtown if you don't know how:
- use the different mode options in Google maps to see real time bus routes and bike routes
- try your new transport mode on a low stakes and fun trip (ie brunch on a Saturday)
- start leveling up from there (ie using the bus for appts)

Or if you truly must drive, just use the abundant street parking! I think I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve parked in a surface lot downtown.