Pike Place Market just released new sales data for Feb 2026. Looks like Jan+Feb 2026 had 11% higher sales than Jan+Feb 2025 (before the pedestrian pilot)! Congrats Seattle, you managed to find a way to shop at the market in the dead of winter without driving your cars through the middle of it.
Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”
America’s Mayor can’t miss.
Can you spot the vehicle that offends the aesthetic sensibilities of historic preservationists? If you guessed Cybertruck you would be wrong
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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This is huge: Katie Wilson's office just announced a significantly expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, after years of the program being stifled under Bruce Harrell.
In addition to more weekends, we're getting our long holiday weekends back.
La transformation spectaculaire de l’avenue de Bouvines.
Paris, 9 avril.
“By creating a city-owned public bank, Seattle can not only provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also buy its own debt and pay interest to the city instead of private creditors.”
It's amazing that there are people across the city working to pedestrianize streets. It's not just Pike Place. And we are joining forces thanks to @streetsalliance.bsky.social.
"What can Democrats do?"
When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.
So, you know, that.
Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.
When NIMBYs say "we don't want apartments/renters in OUR neighborhood," you might ask "weren't they renters once too?"
Yes, they were, but they were able to buy a house young, so they think of renting as something only very young, maybe college-age people do as a step to homeownership./1
Limiting car traffic in Pike Place would be such a boon for Seattle, I'm glad to see it has such strong public backing.
Visiting Seattle this winter & seeing the new waterfront for the first time, I was blown away by how much its improved since I lived there in the early 2000s.
Bd de Denain, devant la Gare du Nord.
Paris, 2 avril.
Cool to know that the multiple times a week I buy groceries at the market don't matter to FoM because I get there on foot
Look at all these members of the all powerful pedestrian lobby getting in the way of a true Seattleite trying to drive through the middle of Pike Place Market 😢
My car has depression (check engine light is on).
Special interests? You mean overwhelming public support?
Scientific polling by Change Research found 81% of Seattle voters support limiting car traffic in Pike Place Market, and 65% would even pay more property taxes to make it happen! Probably even higher now that the pilot has been so successful
Mayor Katie Wilson speaking at Sound Transit Crosslake Light Rail Opening
“Having a car should not be a requirement to building a life of one’s choosing.”
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-Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson at the Sound Transit Crosslake Light Rail Opening
A rendering of Pike Place Market's front entrance along 1st Ave. There are several movable vehicle barriers, planters, and bollards to limit passenger vehicle access.
New render: what Pike Place Market could look like by the FIFA Men's World Cup in June.
Following the successful 2025 pilot, we're considering new barriers to support a secure experience for people & businesses inside the market: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/03/26/pike-place-ma...
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Some Pike Place merchants are still concerned about 🚗 parking, and use that to justify opposing the pedestrian pilot. But they never question why the attached public parking garage (which the PDA manages) offers cheap all day "early bird" parking, but no discounted/validated 1 hour customer parking?
One of my strongest beliefs is that local elected officials should be expected to robustly review presentation materials ahead of public meetings, and the bulk of those meetings should be spent on follow-up questions and sustained discussion.
The newly elected mayor of Paris celebrated his victory by riding a bike around the city. He ran on:
—60,000 new social houses
—15 express bus routes
—Completing a full bike network
—Changing ring road to a blvd
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks
We can do better.
Before/after of a school street in Paris
Every time I see a before/after picture like this, I think even the “before” is better than what we have for most school streets in Seattle.
Legit, they really give away the game going after blocking new apts when there's all this concrete to repurpose
Tree Action Seattle could get behind this sort of action if they actually cared about trees
just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival
Bikes existed before cars did.
This sort of thing illustrates a really disgusting aspect of these discussions: Aesthetics are given equal weight to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. One should dramatically outweigh the other.
