Ron Davis

He wants to run out the clock on any meaningful change he's supported and take credit for ones (Overlook Walk) that predate him. How's that "culture connector" coming along?

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'KIRO 7 asked Harrell why it is taking so long to make Rainier safer.

“You don’t do it arbitrarily,” Harrell said. “You look at the traffic count, you look at the impacts on transit, you study other areas where it’s done, and so it’s time now.”'

Over 1500 serious injury (or ⚰️) crashes since then

Harrell assured the crowd the Seattle Department of Transportation will begin reworking Rainier’s lights and lowering speed limits by the end of this year.

Over 1,500 traffic crashes resulting in a serious injury or death since that 2015 article.

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“You don’t do it arbitrarily,” Harrell said. “You look at the traffic count, you look at the impacts on transit, you study other areas where it’s done, and so it’s time now.”

It's 2025. We wouldn't want to save lives arbitrarily.

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Residents along Rainier Avenue want changes on dangerous street Activists rallied Wednesday night along what they call Seattle's most dangerous street. Rainier Avenue South averages one car crash a day, about 1,200 in the last three years.

Why hasn't @mayorofseattle.bsky.social made Rainier Ave S safe?

May 20, 2015: www.kiro7.com/news/residen...

"When Seattle city councilmember Bruce Harrell came by the rally, he saw the problem for himself ... KIRO 7 asked Harrell why it is taking so long to make Rainier safer." 1/

Map showing where vouchers are being collected and for who.

Voucher collections between Bruce and Katie

Wilson:
22,000+ Democracy Vouchers
700+ Volunteers

Harrell:
$300,000 from Real Estate and CEOs
7,000+ Less Vouchers

Vote for Katie Wilson- a campaign that embodies real democracy and is powered by working families and everyday Seattleites.

Bruce Harrell’s administration is a failure when it comes to livability, future mobility, and climate.

This is alongside his more famous failures in housing costs, homelessness, public safety, his defensive approach to sexual predators, and his creation of workplace hostile to women.

"Despite overwhelming evidence in their own modeling that general purpose vehicle lane reduction with prioritized public transit, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure perform significantly better across nearly every metric (most notably safety, equity, and livability) ..."

This is why Wallingford got their completely baseless historic district. To cancel upzones

This shouldn't come as a surprise.

Seattle has one of the highest remote-work rates in the country and had a glut of new office buildings under construction before the pandemic.

at least Jenny Durkan fired some mean tweets at Trump, Bruce has done less than nothing. but now that he's floundering in the polls he's decided to become the latest #Resistance grifter

🤣🤣🤣

Mayor Harrell rejected my “insinuation” on Thursday that suing over 7-month-old executive orders four days before a primary might be political.
Today:

the 72% axiom stays unbeaten

Yes! By removing the requirements for an already EIS approved Comp plan, we could improve zoning capacity in urban growth areas at any time, not just in response to 5 or 10 year comp plan changes.

The current project-level SEPA exemption only applies after cities apply SEPA to their Comprehensive Plans.

But infill housing isn’t an “impact.” It’s literally the entire reason we plan!

Yup, just make housing within UGAs categorically exempt from programmatic SEPA.

These proposals are absurd attempts to keep neighborhoods economically segregated.

Banning apartments from most areas in rich neighborhoods is morally unjust and economically foolish.

But when you are a Dem whose core supporters are centrist Dems and Republicans-it makes sense.

The Supreme Court punting a big Voting Rights Act case on the last day of the term was weird, until last week, when it became very clear that the justices did so because they want to use it to get rid of what remains of the Voting Rights Act

In one city council meeting, elected leaders are working to suppress construction of more housing while in another meeting their colleagues are learning about falling tax revenue due to declining construction 🙃

Yes—that would meet my definition of infill! (With an eye toward critical areas avoidance, but that’s it.)

saka and hollingsworth and rivera propose decimating the neighborhood centers in wealthy neighborhoods massively

rinck's amendment 34 re-introduces the neighborhood centers that the mayor's office removed from the proposed comp plan (including one in his own neighborhood. one seattle!)

Time to exempt infill housing from EIS statements.

And time to overhaul the remainder of EIS statements so that they are driven by KPIs that more closely impact real environmental outcomes—like vehicle miles traveled per capita, for instance.

It's 2025 and we're still using "amount of time drivers spend sitting at specific traffic lights" as a primary guide for how we judge the environmental impact of "more housing in cities."

illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."

Wow. I didn’t know that. I’m sorry I didn’t. It’s a kind of prohibition on internal state capacity. Someday I want to pick your brain about this.

Right? It would be such a simple thing to say.

We're like multiple decades into this GOP strategy and traditional media still hasn't executed an effective way to deal with shameless lying.

Anne Applebaum. Photo credit: Maciej Zienkiewicz.

#ResistanceRoots

“Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie — it’s to make people fear the liar.”
― Anne Applebaum