Perhaps anecdotal, but with the amount of people I see catching the 101 to Downtown Seattle at Renton Transit Center on Sunday mornings, you would think King County Metro would have better than hourly headways from start of service to 9 AM.

drawing of a burning warehouse “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

A 31 I caught outside of U District Station yesterday morning at around 9:45, heading towards Seattle Children's Hospital, opened both doors, but it did not have a rear-door ORCA card reader when I boarded through the rear door. It did have the 'Pay Here' decal though.

The 101 I am on—coach #8122, block #150_6, leaving South Renton P&R at 7:56—has a rear door ORCA card reader, but the driver has not once opened the rear door since I boarded (at the front door) at Renton TC.

I like how all-door boarding is supposed to be a thing now for @kingcountymetro.bsky.social, but a.) some drivers are still only opening the front door for new passengers, and b.) not all coaches have been outfitted with rear-door ORCA card readers.

It wasn't until the driver returned us to Renton Transit Center that I realized something was wrong.

Sitting near the front of the bus has its perks, because I was completely ignorant to someone swinging around a knife in the back of this Burien-bound F line bus I am on to get to Southcenter.

I hurry through the museum, taking a photo of every artwork and every explanatory text. I will never look at any of them.

Hey Congress,

Any President, regardless of political party, who threatens to order the United States Military to commit war crimes needs to be impeached immediately.

If he does give these orders, he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court.

I missed out on International District/Chinatown Station Crosslake Connection festivities because Sound Transit decided to run three-car trains on the 2 Line and it took me almost two hours to get on a train at Judkins Park.

After an hour, I am almost at the ORCA Card booth. At this point, based on the length of the line, a person at the end of the line has a wait time of about two hours.

The length of this line for the ORCA booth at Sam Smith Park shows just how popular Boop is.

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Los Angeles "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

As we hurtle into an energy crisis, remember that North America could have chosen to be more resilient fifty years ago, in the first oil crisis.

That is what the Dutch and the Danish did. We tripled down on fossil fuels.

This is an example of "design debt" and the balloon payment is due.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

I was reminded today by photo gallery's 'on this day over the years' feature that I rode the last regularly-scheduled King County Metro bus that went through the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, the last inbound run of Route 41 for the night, in the wee hours of the morning on March 23rd, 2019.

IMO the more interesting takeaway is that 44% of Americans prefer to live within walking distance of schools and stores. Safe to assume that most of them currently don’t.

The US forces car-dominated sprawl on millions of people who don’t want it.

The FCC is waiving a rule that bars a single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households.

Nexstar and Tegna combined would cover ~60%.

Reminder that Nexstar's CEO has praised Trump and quickly pulled Jimmy Kimmel off its stations last fall.

See how this works?

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

I found a website that streams King County Metro radio chatter, and I could sense the face-palming this morning from a Transit Coordinator as he dealt with a coach operator, deadheading to Kenmore P&R, that didn't seem to know how to get to Kenmore and ended up missing the 522 exit while on I-405 N.

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

This is what I mean: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ki...

I understand that the F Line is the red-headed stepchild of the RapidRide system, but King County Metro running the new 40 foot electric buses on the route just feels like Metro is intentionally watering down the route at this point.

If a single person says "but how are you going to pay for it" about universal healthcare for the rest of my life, I am going to []

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

I am absolutely convinced that one of the reasons our imperialism continues unchecked year after year is because white suburbs never see the consequences. They're not occupied by soldiers or bombed by munitions. Even school shootings are just a fact of life, so dead people abroad barely register.

The Trump administration took your money illegally.

They won’t give it back.

The White House wants an extra $50 billion to fund Trump’s illegal war.

That’s on top of the Pentagon’s $1T budget — which Trump is trying to boost to $1.5T.

Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private corporations and the Pentagon has failed eight financial audits in a row.

These multi-ton vanity projects chew up our infrastructure, ignore public safety, and put everyone else at risk just to satisfy a fragile ego.

This isn't a work truck, it's a security blanket.

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.