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stupid local fox propaganda article blaming traffic along westlake ave on bus lanes instead of thousands of cars

Yes, it's definitely the new route 40 bus lanes that are causing traffic jams. Not, you know, all of the cars.

My "radical" take is that this should be standard and unremarkable.

If there was ever a social contract around driving, it's been torn to shreds. I can't count the number of times people have openly bragged to me about speeding everywhere. Just so casually anti-social.

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It's fascinating/terrifying to ride a bus on the highway because you can easily see how many drivers are playing on their phone. Some even go 2 hands off the wheel at times to better use their phone! Incredible how normalized this has become.

Goldilocks vertical circulation: double-loaded corridors have too little of it per unit, townhouses have too much of it. But one stair and one elevator (two if it’s a high-rise)? Just right!

Seattle screws up density by favoring townhomes over stacked flats, turning the new homes into a maze of stairs. Why build 6 flights of stairs when 6 homes can share 1? We should be encouraging more efficiency

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Stick it right there

I took a neighborhood planning class at UW taught by Richard Conlin. He was so out of touch with the times, it would've been laughable if it wasn't so sad. He lives in a centrist wishcasting alternate reality where the city has done a great job on housing, transit, and affordability.

I'd say we really need to get the cost of mass timber construction down in the US instead. Not only is it much better environmentally, it also feels achievable. The last project I had priced with mass timber had a lower premium over stick than going full concrete. The gap feels more surmountable.

Single stair Swiss high rise. 23 floors of apartments. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (!!!) bedroom homes. Large, functional balconies. Solar protection.

This proposal didn't even win the competition. I don't love all of the concrete, but imagine this building made of timber.

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At this point, we probably need a minimum of 4-6 stories/8-12 units on NR lots, no? Even 8 units might be too few to make economic sense.

a car-free bridge in basel

fremont bridge would be a great bus/bike/pedestian bridge if we had any climate leadership

NIMBYs: if you didn't buy your house 40 years ago for $0.12 and some pocket lint, you are a bug person who deserves to breathe toxic fumes, your opinions are less than worthless, and you're committing ecocide

Also NIMBYs: this townhome development should be 98% affordable

The housing market is slow. So why are the prices still so high? Seattle-area homes lingered longer on the market last month, but prices remain high.

to all the NIMBY house owners who come to public meetings to say people can't buy starter houses anymore because of all the density:

👏condos👏are👏starter👏homes👏

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Should the Cubs sell high on Jonny Long?

Grime deposited on drywall window jamb through a trickle vent in an apartment in Seattle.

This is what comes into my apartment via trickle vent on Stone Way. I'm sure this is not bad for me, right? Right?!

Can't wait for the sock puppet version of this one.

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Euro construction costs in general are much lower for a far superior product. I don't know how that is, but I'm constantly shocked when @holz-bau.bsky.social shares projects with construction costs in the high $100s to low $200s per sf for mass timber single stair bldgs with triple pane wood windows

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You know what rocks? A 45 minute round trip bike trip to the grocery store to buy $35 of groceries (3 dinner recipes) which all fit in my backpack. Thank you to @wsdot.wa.gov for my e-bike rebate!

Downright deranged and shameful behavior from Patricia here.

One of the most heinous and least self aware flavors of anti-housing public comment I've heard in Seattle recently: old white homeowner compares themselves to the native people who were brutally genocided because "they weren't consulted" wrt their neighborhood changing

Every person who gives public comment and prefaces it with how long they've lived in their neighborhood and then uses that to give more weight to why they think we shouldn't build new housing needs to also say how much they paid for their house and its current value.

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