It’s actually a pretty short walk from the Issaquah Transit center if you go via transit. Take the 554. By car it’s of course easy (because cars). It’s a nicer place than the satellite view suggests though. Promise!
Formula brewing in Issaquah has a nice large outdoor seating area. And there is a very low traffic side street / driveway next to it that kids are always playing in. I once heroically saved my wife’s beer by catching a football that came from kids playing next to us.
With an e-bike, everywhere is flatland.
We’re getting a new police chief, and my understanding is there is a desire to let that new chief explain how they’d be used.
Build The Damn Bike Lanes.
I vote for Seattle Person to speak for Seattle
Amen. The Seattle area has room to grow to be more bikeable, but it’s a political problem (build the damn bike lanes) not a climate one. I spent many years in The Netherlands biking everywhere. We have the same climate. We lack the will, not the weather.
Three words: Issaquah Light Rail
Orban toppled
I worry about increasing authoritarianism in the US. Seeing Hungary, which arguably went further down that path than we have, successfully hold an election to reverse that is inspiring. Let’s hope for a peaceful transfer of power and a return to democratic norms. Looking forward to midterms here…
City Council – The Mayor has asked that the Congressional Community Appropriations Grant & Automated License Plate Reader Cameras topic currently scheduled for the May 19 SSP and June 15 Council meeting be shifted to later in the year. An exact date is uncertain as we are awaiting confirmation of any deadlines for accepting the congressional grant. If there are community inquiries on a meeting date for Flock/ALPR cameras, the Clerk's office is happy to add individuals to a notification list. We will then alert those folks of any public meetings on the topic once meeting dates are set.
Update: Flock/ALPR camera meetings previously planned for May/June have been postponed. If you want to stay informed about new dates, email me at kevin.nichols@issaquahwa.gov or our City Clerk to join a notification list. Public feedback is always welcome, even before meetings are scheduled as well.
Awesome. Well done Kirkland. Looking at you from the other end of the future 4 line and happy to push to copy this. We have a regional growth center that needs all the help it can get 👀
Issaquah CM here. Looking forward to the day you can take light rail from wherever you are to our awesome city. Our bike trails are great. Happy to show you some myself if you’re out this way.
Longing for the day when most public transit alerts about “Issaquah” aren’t for the Washington State ferry system’s wonderfully named ferry, the good ship Issaquah.
Proud of this. The Issaquah Highlands Council reversed its support for Issaquah's proposed Flock camera purchase. A year ago, many of us, myself included, didn't fully understand the risks. New info came to light, and they owned it. Great leadership example. issaquahhighlands.com/statement-fr...
I’m unable to hear SCA and not think of the Society for Creative Anachronism. It’s also a *lot* funnier reading our SCA’s minutes if you imagine all the actual attendees had to attend in medieval armor like the other SCA.
Some of the weirdest land use issues are between schools with cool sports fields and cities that don’t use them. Our school district requires a fee for anyone to even run on the nice track (!?!). Working on this locally but it’s a bigger issue. Doesn’t solve the real problem, but it’s a baby step.
It's not clear to me what that is either, but I'm happy to ask and pass on. If you email me at kevin.nichols@issaquahwa.gov, I can forward on the information I do have (attachments) that are hard to just post. These are also all public records, but it can be hard to know what to look for.
Issaquah CM here. Can confirm the city received a grant to buy Flock cameras and will discuss at upcoming public meetings (details below). I’d recommend anyone with opinions in Issaquah reach out to council. I have serious concerns but will save my own comments for the public meetings.
To nerd out on Sound Transit, read the Policy Opportunity Register from their retreat. It's full of good stuff! These won't close a $34.5B gap alone (cities need to show up with more), but read it if you care about getting trains built 🚃 www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoin...
💯. There are a lot of great ideas out there, and ST has their own great thoughts laid out below in their Policy Opportunity Register. We just need regional cooperation to see it through: www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoin...
Well done!
Thanks! Let’s #BuildTheDamnTrains
Our op-ed in the Seattle Times lays out how we can #BuildTheDamnTrains and deliver all voter approved lines. We want cities to lead the way offering solutions to deliver rail projects. Here’s what that means to Mayor Mullet, CM @kellyjiang.bsky.social and me: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/want...
An audit is only as good as the controls on it and the data into it. If an AI camera user decides to do an illegal search, the only way it’s easily auditable is if the user records they did an illegal search… likewise if the feds demand access and decide not to tell us, we have no way to audit that
“At least city-owned cameras have public oversight!” is arguably untrue if the companies that control the camera data also control what level of oversight a city is capable of performing.
I RODE A TRAIN ACROSS A LAKE TODAY! IT WAS ON A FLOATING BRIDGE! We are capable of building awesome things. Now we just need to make sure we get out of our own way and #BuildTheDamnTrains
There is a lot of that, at least in our local gov. We’ll email questions and our administration is good about getting those answered for us. Where we often drop the ball is in making sure those same questions are brought up publicly though. They’re public records, but people shouldn’t have to dig
I’m looking forward to watching the public comment for the subway line that lands on the Medina lakeshore…
Flappy straws are better than nothing. There are places I would love to see great bike infrastructure but can’t just instantiate myself. For now, I can argue for flappy straws, to at least alert drivers. Of course they suck, but we shouldn’t have purity tests on things that are better than paint.
One of the most vocal e-bike advocates in Issaquah is a resident that won a WA rebate last year, bought an e-bike, and realized how awesome they are compared to his car for most things. This is a great program not just for equity, but to inspire amazing advocates.