Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help? Despite committing to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on city roadways by 2030, the numbers in Seattle aren't declining. Though a recent call for a performance audit has attracted attention, it will ultimately fall to Katie Wilson to orient SDOT toward safety.

NEW STORY// Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help?
By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org

Here's hoping. Just absurd how much work that has repeatedly done on this intersection just to avoid the obvious need for a neighborhood with so many people living in it and lots of businesses that people get to not in cars!

I have indeed walked the quite a few blocks up to the central library because that's the nearest place I knew would have facilities unquestioned with no chance of an awkward conversation with a retail worker required to deny access.

I thought the Union station ones are closed now effectively? Even the King street station (amtrak) ones are unreliably available. Sometimes there's a security guard at the doors checking that you have a train ticket. :/

If freeway on/off ramps are critical transportation infrastructure, then toilets are critical transportation infrastructure. But it would take a LOT of process to close a freeway ramp even for a week or two.

Yes, I am equating toilets with freeway ramps. 😂

Very sincerely, I believe that until we have ubiquitous and free toilet facilities everywhere (that do not require begging security or staff at a business), it is unjust that it is illegal to drop your pants, go on the street, and scoop up whatever can be scooped, as we allow for dogs.

This intersection should have lost its slip lane and gotten pedestrian crossings on all sides.

And this is why a large fraction of "vehicular" cyclists here don't use the bike signal and just merge with cars. I've been nearly right hooked here so I do a full body look back (stopped) before I start rolling even on the bike signal. :/

I get that there are challenges. But instead of just funding a program for public toilets at transit, we just push harmful emotional and physical harm on anyone traveling, and possibly legal risk (it's illegal basically everywhere for a human to poop and scoop unlike a dog!)

Also even when you get to Judkins folks have to get off and take a bus rather than terminating the 2 Line at Westlake or Capitol Hill (so folks can just get on a 1 Line if continuing north)

We don't have to solve homelessness to have public restrooms. We just have to consider that making people with physical needs, health issues, children, etc. not constently begging for access or being stuck at home worth putting resources too. Everybody Poops, like the kids book says.

Picture of a closed door with a padlock with a badgr reader to the side and maybe an intercom system. There'ns a sign to the left reading "If intercom not working cal security (number)"

I think they had that option once. Pretty sure I found the restrooms but no signs to say that they were but had various access control devices.

Screenshot of restrooms section from link. Text reads: "This station has public restrooms available on street level. To access, find a security guard and request a token which will allow you into the restroom."

Tukwila station actually DOES have toilets. They just aren't allowed to be used by the public anymore. I tried to use one a couple weekends ago and had to cross to a gas station. Emailed Sound Transit to ask & told there are none. Haven't updated this though!

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Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006.

"I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

For the record, I also contacted his office directly with slightly longer remarks (& have many times in the past).

first summr fall asleep on the hammock in the sun with cat for a while: achieved.

:(

If we made Sunday bus service as frequent as the weekday would more people who drive to work take it on their days off for fun and then have a better feeling about it and champion it more? If they only take it once a week and have a bad experience some can’t imagine a good one!

To be clear, they did lots of good things. They just didn't do anything to shore up creaky systems for accountability or prevent another run by authoritarian!

No you have to give him and the democrats money and they will when the House and THEN they can act. But why would I trust them to when they didn't do jackshit last time they had a majority?

I really should unsubscribe from my House rep's campaign list since all it does is make me uselessly angry.

Screenshot of email from Adam Smith's campaign: Rachael, There is absolutely no question that Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States. But we have to think strategically about how to take that case to the American people. Hear what I said. Impeachment resolutions aren't going to remove Trump from office. We need Republican support in the House and Senate, and that's not happening. Introducing resolutions we can't win doesn't stop him. Here's what does: staying focused on what Trump is doing to the American people. Gas prices are going up. Inflation is going up. Consumer confidence is at an all-time low. That's how we stop him at the ballot box. That's where I'm focused. I'm fighting every day to hold this administration accountable. I hope you will join Team Smith with a recurring $3 contribution today.

If you can't even support impeachment – I don't expect it to pass – for everyone involved in unconstitutional budget cuts, snatching children off the street or authorizing air strikes on FISHING boats, then I don't believe you'll do jackshit if you win Congress. @adamsmith.house.gov

This one I find particularly telling. We all are still living under a threat of nuclear mass destruction. This is just an absurd thing to claim. Until every nuclear weapon is decommissioned and strong international treaties and norms makes re-creating them unthinkable, we are still living in this.

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If this seems nitpicky, they use 3 feet per second as walking speed for pedestrian signal timing. That's 88 second impact to get to bus stop not counting wait time to cross 23rd. A person in a car going 20 mph can go half a mile in that time.

Looking south towards the 23rd entrance to Judkins light rail station taken from the south end of the bus shelter. There is a wide no parking lane on both sides of the street right ip to thr crosswalk.

If you live or work north of Judkins station in the 23rd Ave corridor, it's a 260 foot walk from street level exit to northbound bus stop, with a street crossing to get to it. There is so much space to put the bus stop closer to the crosswalk.

It's funny folks seem to think states bordering russia would care about the risk communism per se and not literally centuries of russian attempted and achieved imperialism.

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Contacted King County Metro, Seattle DOT & Sound Transit and the bus stops on Rainier at Judkins station will be fixed. By fixed I mean moving the bus sign so it's not 100 feet north of station exit, has seating and trash bins. They can't tell me when though.

May someday we be shocked less often!