At the Bellevue Council tonight, members of the Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE) Bellevue coalition are pushing for the city to back its Vision Zero pledge up with funding and accelerate work to make Bellevue streets safer.
They're pushing for a 0.1% sales tax to fund multimodal infrastructure.
Interview
@joshholland.bsky.social and I just talked with Joel Moreno at KOMO news about Vision Zero. With 27 people killed on our streets last year, 18 of whom were walking, it’s no surprise that Seattleites are saying traffic safety is a top concern that must be prioritized
“Seattle needs a complete system!”
“Ballard and West Seattle are neighbors. The fences between us have grown too high. Let’s cut them down. The extension to West Seattle will not be complete until it goes to Ballard.” - @westseaurbanism.bsky.social
Have you signed our save Graham Street light rail station petition yet? We need just a few more signatures to get to 800
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Screen grab of an email: At an upcoming performance of Carmen on Saturday, May 16, Seattle Opera will be hosting a Furry Night with a special pre-show meet-and-greet with bass-baritone Christian Pursell, who plays Escamillo in the opera. Pursell will appear as his fursona, Chester the Geroo, and will be available for photos before the show. Although Pursell will not be in his fursuit onstage, we are encouraging audience members to attend the opera in their own costumes and fursuits, if they would like.
This amazing (real!) thing that is happening next month would make an absolutely incredible episode of Frasier
Seattle’s Sound Transit “could save at least $15 billion by adopting international best practices and building automated light rail from Ballard to West Seattle. This reform would allow rail to get to Ballard by 2039, rather than decades later.” [showing Vancouver’s skytrain]
AUTOMATED light rail.
"You’re under no obligation to elevate trivial concerns in ways that put the onus on you to defend your belief that innocent people shouldn’t be crushed to death by automobiles. If someone believes saving parking > saving lives, the onus is on them to explain such a morally bankrupt philosophy."
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3
By Scott Kubly, Trevor Reed via @theurbanist.org
A 2011 Google Streetview Photo of 108th Ave NE just south of the transit center. The road has 5 lanes of vehicle traffic that narrows to 3 in approach of the transit center. A silver car is in the foreground, but the street is otherwise not heavily used.
A modern picture of 108th Ave NE. A green bike lane is nestled between bushes. Some cars park along the streetside next to the bike lane and wide sidewalk.
A modern photo of 108th Ave NE showing a green bike lane next to some newly-planted street trees and a wide sidewalk.
A modern photo of 108th Ave NE just south of Bellevue Transit Center looking north. A red bus lane is adjacent to a green bike lane and some cars waiting for a bus to pull out of the transit center.
Over the last decade, 108th Ave NE has transformed from wide stroad into multimodal marvel.
Join our Complete Streets Tour to hear from @bvuetrans.bsky.social about how small, tactical improvements evolved into permanent safety benefits.
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Luke Raley has his first 4 hit game, Emerson Hancock records a 2-hit quality start and is perfect through 3.2 as the Mariners lose 7-6
So Ryan got these quotes from me a while back, way before the light rail opened.
I think it's fair to say people grok the impact of the 2 Line now - I certainly do!
You simply will not get this level of analysis of our region anywhere else.
A “I go both ways” postcard for the Link light rail 1 and 2 lines in Seattle-Bellevue… sold at a queer book store in Fremont
Obsessed with this postcard 😂🚊
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" really needs to become the clarion call, the cultural zeitgeist. Put the blame on those billionaires who could pay us but choose not to, to remind them, and everyone, that their greed is why the world is the way it is. They could stop this. At any time.
it was foretold
Breaking: We’ve updated tonight’s Ichiro Replica Statue giveaway.
21 minutes to get from Bellevue City Hall to Seattle City Hall.
The Seattle area should have been building out housing for millions of climate refugees. Instead Seattle City Council (and most other local govts) have dithered to NIMBY lies for decades.
This is dumb
See I'm with you because like, I thought it was just done...? Like, Comp Plan finished last year for y'all - is this like Seattle's HOMA or something? Where it's actually now the upzones but it's just being branded as phase 29293292992 of the comp plan? That's my best bet (again having read nothing)
I haven't read anything yet so this is definitely like 90% on me but I actually have no idea what all this is about right now, I know Katie announced she wants to go further but I am beyond understanding the actual procedural steps that are happening right now/how they are related to what she wants.
Bellevue's Wilburton Station: Come for the transit-oriented burgers, go home with a luxury car.
I love this method of character standees for photos that you guys have been doing, it makes me want to try this for some future trips/cons
lots of people in an auditorium are wearing pink shirts that say “build West Seattle light rail” including mayor Katie Wilson and county councilmember Teresa Mosqueda
omg we passed out all 40 of our shirts and then spotted @mayorofseattle.bsky.social wearing one 👀🥰
Should-be MVP walks off Yanks as good guys prevail in first clash of title contenders.
Go M’s.
Founder Chris Randels engages with two Crosslake Connection attendees from behind a black table. One person is a young boy and the other is an adult woman.
Chris stands in front of a banner that shows the Complete Streets Bellevue logo.
Post it notes are stuck on a piece of artist paper and adorned with stickers expressing support for individual ideas. The content of the notes are answers to the question, "What would YOU fund in Bellevue's Transportation Budget?"
Post it notes are stuck on a piece of artist paper and adorned with stickers expressing support for individual ideas. The content of the notes are answers to the question, "What would YOU fund in Bellevue's Transportation Budget?"
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Saturday's Crosslake Connection opening! What a joyous day for our city.
The input you shared with us on Bellevue's Transportation Budget will directly inform our advocacy & engagement with City Hall this year & beyond - thank you!
I just woke up after sleeping for 14.5 hours lol
We out here #2line #soundtransit #furrieslike2rail
@jigglebonezad.bsky.social @solarpunkdog.bsky.social
I trained over to meet my partner in the ID, grabbed lunch at a bar I've been meaning to try, and trained back (while running into Val and Alex). Things are fundamentally better now and it's so great