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Bus riders of Seattle: This is exactly how much respect Mike Solan and his crew have for your time and safety.

One house turns into 17 homes in Seattle. (2014➡️2017)

Cop car parked in bus lane near Starbucks

Just watched two SPD cruisers park in the bus lane on Madison, and then walk into Starbucks. #publicsafety

I think there’s something to be said for pushing through everything that’s already near the finish line then coming back for more later. Blowing it all up and starting over means missing deadlines and/or years of more status quo.

Max Dubler, AICP Counterpoint: we should triple the number of homes in the Bay Area so that everyone who wants to move here can do so. Troutski I don't like all this national attention from the Superbowl on the Bay. We don't need more people finding out how great it is here. I liked it better when they all thought it was a shit hole. The rent is too damn h... John J Filson I agree w/Troutski. Until CA can handle population/growth better, it should not try to encourage population growth other that select, desirable demographics expected to benefit the state as a whole. Likewise it should tailor incentives to disperse population growth.

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

It’s pretty hard to read the revised zoning maps and not conclude that viewshed protection was OPCD’s number one priority.

At the community meeting AMR hosted an older couple said their vision for the neighborhood includes the PCC coming back to Seward. It is NEVER happening without more density! Never!

The “Dawson”/Seward Park neighborhood center @alexis4seattle.bsky.social proposed last fall is an extreme compromise for this neighborhood. There are *zero* zoning changes for the whitest, wealthiest part of the Southend with all the redevelopment concentrated where renters and density already are.

Props to OPCD for updating their web maps with the change polygons!

This was all in OPCD’s scoping maps before our previous mayor 86’d the entire neighborhood.

It’s so cynical that people will tell you it’s unfair for the Southend to take more density while the entire area between Rainier and Lake Washington has seen zero growth in decades.

50th and S Genesee should be min six stories zoning from Rainier to at least Wilson. Plus along the park itself.

The ridge area of Mt Baker got gutted, too. The entire view side of 31st lost its corridor zoning, and the west side got a lower zone than originally proposed it looks like. What possible reason for this other than protecting views?

Congrats to Mt Baker “Community” Club for successfully eliminating all upzones near Hunter Blvd. Wouldn’t want any renters getting access to the lake!

Seattle could really use more affordable community gathering spaces that are all ages, allow you to bring food and accessible for people.

why should we make a streetcar instead of a rapid ride?

because rapid ride red is like the worst Seattle bus color and I see no other solution to this

Map of Ballard, with Market St at the north edge and 15th at the right. Most streets are left blank, thus are to some extent pedestrianized. Cars are still allowed on the two mentioned streets as well as along 24th Ave and 52nd st, terminating at parking garages before getting through the whole neighborhood. A bus only zone stretches along Leary, and a Freight only zone along Shilshole.

Thinkin about Ballard circulation. I've been dreaming WAY too small with just pedestrianized Ballard Ave. No reason to drive thru most of here. Proposal:

Red: Transit only
Blue: Freight only
Grey: General access
Brown: New parking garages (most on-street parking removed, w/ portion retained here)

I know college basketball season doesn’t really break through until next week. But yall are missing out. Duke-UNC was an all timer and this MSU-Illini game rules

Bad Bunny isn't an immigrant.

This shit is cooked through. 150 years of being a newspaper and now you're a 4chan comment thread.

Why these startup founders are leaving Seattle for San Francisco Seattle's startup ecosystem has its strengths, and the city is a global AI hub. But for some tech entrepreneurs, the gravity of San Francisco is hard to resist — especially in the middle of an AI boom...

"When she worked long days in Seattle, friends worried about her. “I feel like in SF, it’s kind of normalized, that kind of lifestyle,” she said."

That's good, though? I think it's good that the Seattle mindset is that 15-hour work days are not healthy.

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history:

“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

Rain forecast all day in Seattle

Spending all week staring out the window at the good weather, dreaming of a weekend bike ride...

Rising Progressive Star Shakes Up Race for Los Angeles Mayor

"Nithya Raman, who has been compared to Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass." NYT gets the scoop

Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.

A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart!

www.latimes.com/california/s...

The 7 is equally competitive with Link from much of the Rainier Valley. It’s pretty hilly down here, too, so a mile walk to the station is no joke!

Google maps screenshot showing that both the bus and the train are 15 minutes between CID and BH stations

The train isn't even faster than the 36 between the CID station and BH station, let alone any place that isn't literally the train station.

*And* it has worse frequency.

Still have my head buried in Metro's 2025 System Evaluation. To me by far the most revealing number is off-peak weekday rides per platform hour. Here's Metro's top baker's dozen:

A: 47.8 🤯
8: 46.4
7: 45.2
45: 43.4
D: 41.9
67: 41.3
E: 41.2
48: 39.5
44: 38.4
36: 36.1
G: 35
2: 34.5
40: 34.5

My office this morning. We’re banding mallards.