Would be miraculous to do so by then.

I missed the retreat, but noticed this gorgeous yet confounding workflow chart that tells me they aren't ready to 'grapple' for quite a while.

Mike McGinn frequently biked to work, so it seems quite possible for Mayor (elect) Wilson to ride public transit for certain nearby events, with the usual two or three SPD bodyguards alongside.

That's a safe bet

Here's one - the @wsdot.wa.gov just built a pre-emptive desire trail that will help some apartment residents in the northeast go more directly to a new light rail station to their southwest, in this southward looking image. (The walk is still not very pleasant, at wide I-5 access roads.)

Reminder: 1 Line announcement

On Sunday, Nov. 16, shuttle buses are replacing 1 Line service between Capitol Hill and Stadium stations. This all-day shutdown is for scheduled maintenance on the tracks.

Another story of on-demand transit (or "microtransit") hype. The cute and responsive technology works in a tiny rural town, so they propose to do it in the big city, where it will be overwhelmed. Big cities need big transit, not these distractions.

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Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.

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The engineers and planners make astounding sums of money during the futile planning process, not to mention outreach contractors. If we had a leaner project selection culture in the U.S., the "sunk cost" (psychologically more than $$) would be less of a drag on hard decisions.

When push came to shove, road projects got done under Mike McGinn and bike projects got done under Bruce Harrell.

Affordability isn't the goal, creating new financial products is the goal.

What do they do?

Chart showing Dow Constantine 30-member transition team vs Girmay Zahilay's just announced 100 member team.

Analysis: King County executive transition team inflation 2009-2025. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It wasn't on the Seattle Times front page because the paper goes out before 6 a.m. and the new vote counts aren't posted until after 4 p.m., or about one hour ago.

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Reliability rates are around 97% in 2025, which is respectable performance. Downtown escalators used to be only 50% operable in 2020.

A few years ago, I requisitioned an .xls of all the outages and found @soundtransit's summary reports to be generally on point. That's worth trying again in 2025.

That's an interesting point. We need to keep in mind that many of these outages are just somebody fooling around with the emergency-stop buttons that anybody can reach. Another cause is the occasional use of elevators as a toilet. "Environmental" can include rain flooding which is a design weakness.

I've read spreadsheets listing the individual incidents and they fairly well track what you see in the pie chart.

Toilet policy is still quite stingy overall. The upcoming Federal Way extension has loos at all three new stations, where you buzz to the security guard to unlock a door.

Sound Transit committee in session. Only 1/3 of escalator and elevator failures are mechanical, while most are from intentional or accidental customer damage.

The parks and transportation departments are still using them, so where exactly are my carbon taxes being spent?

One fourth of the population loses 2 lbs. That sounds like a reasonable guess.

Photo of the lights out at Judkins Park

The lights are still out, going on more than a year, at Judkins Park. This trail is heavily used by locals for recreation as well as a major connection in our regional transportation bike network.

Mahalo to @meganululani.bsky.social for writing this explainer story; check it out!

Why we're using this spelling of Hawaiʻi You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.

Style alert: the @seattletimes will now include diacritical marks when using Hawaiian-language words and place names. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This retailer is coming back to downtown Seattle The bookseller will move into 520 Pike Street in the city's Central Business District, per a construction permit filed Monday.

The @barnesandnoble.com will open a downtown Seattle store, reports @meganululani.bsky.social: www.seattletimes.com/business/bar...

Chief Sealth High School sports jerseys are literally sky blue with red stripes. ;)

Pink and purple appear as future placeholder colors in the "system expansion" homepage. www.soundtransit.org/system-expan.... [It costs a few millions $, by the way, to flip the naming or color protocols with new signage and software.]

MARTA ‘yellow' line to be renamed ‘gold' Moving to tamp a controversy that has reached the national news, MARTA CEO Beverly Scott said Thursday afternoon that the transit agency would change the name of its “yellow” train line, which goes to...

Atlanta had its moment with color controversy. www.ajc.com/news/local/m...