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I still remain so immensely angry and befuddled how anyone could have voted for him.

RIP 2025

2025-2025

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Unleased FTC, Teddy Roosevelt-style trust busting of big tech in the early 2010s before they got too big and powerful and influential and toxic

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you have NO idea how many engineers I've worked with and talked to that follow the 85th percentile approach as if it was scripture.

Just for perspective: the well-used Route 550 between Seattle and Bellevue saw just under 132,000 riders in July.

The 2 Line saw over 300,000 riders --- more than double the 550 going between the state's largest two CBDs.

If you build it (even between smaller hubs), they will come!

In terms of the cost of maintaining roadway surfaces, a weight-based taxation would be the most equitable and fair. The heavier your vehicle, the more damage it does to pavement. It's just physics.

Weight-based taxation would also be suuuper easy to implement in the US (with the correct politics).

A street light pole sits directly in the middle of a multi-use path

Traffic engineers: You can't put fixed objects next to a street, drivers might get injured if they leave the roadway and hit them.

Also traffic engineers: Enjoy your new bike path!

We need a major revision of urban-related civil engineering, from education to implementation, in the US.

the faster cities move away from using LOS as a primary measuring tool for transportation, the faster we begin to see truly walkable & livable communities.

SUBs (Sport Utility Bikes)

REMINDER: There are ways to write bills that actually REDUCE our deficit. Our Inflation Reduction Act reduced the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars while creating jobs across the country.

This Big Ugly Bill has scam written all over it.

This is a really big deal.

I AM CLUTCHING MY PEARLS SO HARD THAT RAISING A SMALL HUMAN COULD BE EVEN A SMIDGE EASIER AND MORE AFFORDABLE

Maintaining public lands and creating sustainable transportation policy are my 1-and-2, and they go together surprisingly well.

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

I mean yes, but also Aberdeen, part of Bellingham, and half of Everett are in the interface zone. It's a fact of historic development in WA State that cities generally abut nature, for (mostly) better or worse.

yeah, it's called Facebook tapping into the darkest qualities of the human condition

ALERT: Seattle finally starting to be an actual city

THIS is the importance of parking reform in a nutshell.

Parking mandates are based on pseudoscience and have literally paved over our cities.

Removing parking requirements does NOT remove parking. Rather, it lets builders determine how much they need for their project.

It opens opportunity.

"Dana Christiansen... is on the board of the Washington Childcare Centers Association, and she found this property that seemed suitable. She made an offer and purchased this property.

They could only find room for 29 parking spaces... she needed 32 parking spaces.

They walked away from the site."

Parking reform in Washington, parking reform everywhere! Washington's bold new parking reform bill will make housing more abundant and inspire other states, explain Sightline's Catie Gould and Alan Durning.

Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

Congratulations to Bremerton! Opposition to parking reform is a mile wide but an inch deep.

Image of new light rail station in Redmond saying it's now open as of May 10

Redmond Finally Relevant Enough to Be In Needling Headline: tinyurl.com/2cpkf9nf

Seattle City Council Begins Ethics Code Meeting with Brand Acknowledgement: tinyurl.com/3j392wxx

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Everyone should read or listen to the new book "Careless People" to understand just how psychopathic and non-human Mark is. Any human decency that could exist just doesn't, and he's gotten more power hungry over time.

Don't really have the disposable income to afford a Model X anyways, but sure, happy to help

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.