Rainier Ave repave project is on paper from Walden to Jackson I believe, so this intersection should be on the table for a safety review.

*will soon lose

Traffic on the Montlake Lid.

The bus I was on finally turned on to Montlake Blvd. 18 minutes after it exited 520, and 10 minutes after it dropped me off.

18 minutes to go 0.3 miles in an HOV lane.

Should development be extinguished on California’s fire-prone hills? - Reveal Sonoma County’s hillsides are particularly picturesque and expensive. Their history of fire and development is instructive because it is so typical.

I'm not convinced that US model codes do much for wooden homes in extreme fire zones.

“Conventional wildfire planning suggests that newer homes, built to tougher fireproofing standards, would fare better than older ones. But an analysis of Cal Fire data from the Tubbs Fire defies that logic:..."

“I might’ve answered that question a little differently a couple of months ago,” he said. “But right now, I would say yes."

....Parkinson lost his home in unincorporated Sonoma County to another fire, the Nuns, the same night as the Tubbs Fire."

"But as president of the American Planning Association’s California chapter, he has a role in the ongoing conversation about fire-safe building. After what he’s endured, does he believe there are places that shouldn’t be developed because of the fire danger?"

Me in a hat with the Downtown Transit logo.

This is the Downtown Line to City Center!

also:

I don’t even think it’s really a conspiracy anymore but Game 6 of the 2002 West Finals: come on. lmao, no, absolutely determined ahead of time

It’s 2030. After helping negotiate a Grand Bargain saving ST3, Mayor Mullet runs for governor again, this time with the endorsement of Mayor Katie Wilson. His primary policy: property tax reform.

Camas bloom

First camas up in 2026 for my planting strip!

Imagine learning in 2023 Mark Mullet would be the favorite urbanist executive among the three contenders for the D governor nomination come 2026.

Auditorium before the Steyer event started.

What struck me wasn't just the crowd. It was how direct and progressive Steyer was. He answered every unscripted question the public asked for over an hour.

Housing? Build more. Healthcare? Single-payer. Utilities too damn high? Take on the corrupt companies.

It was inspiring to listen to him.

Avoiding a hazard at 38mph is much simpler than avoiding a hazard at 55mph.

Gotta have civic pride for the bus! It’s contagious! 🚎

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Around an hour ago, Seattle Fire responded to a driver hitting someone on a scooter at 5th Ave and Pine Street.

Imagine a $20 pre-loaded ORCA card per adult for every new lease. Sounds like it could be a worthwhile experiment!

Seattle City Attorneys have historically declined almost all non-DUI referrals, with this problem worsening recently.

www.seattle.gov/documents/de...

Hey I don’t care how reckless the victims were. If you’re driving 60 in a 40 zone in the dark (happens constantly in this part of Aurora) you should be charged with reckless driving, at minimum. Under Washington law, excess speed is prima facie evidence of reckless driving (RCW 46.61.465).

Businesses that paid Trump's tariffs can now apply for refunds Importers who paid tariffs that were later struck down by the Supreme Court can start applying for refunds Monday. The government has been ordered to return $160B that were unlawfully collected.

And what for the every day people or the small businesses who actually paid the price for these tariffs?

Nothing it seems. There is NO requirement or guarantee for these companies to refund us for those increased prices/surcharges.

Corporations got the relief. We got the receipt.

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Just before 4:30am this morning, Seattle Fire responded to a driver hitting TWO people on bikes at Aurora Ave N and Roy Street.

Both cyclists were transported to the hospital with significant injuries.

We're still waiting on additional information around how this crash occurred.

This leads me to my main point in that you have to change roads to be built for ppl not for cars because cars will never be ok with any small amount of changes you do...so just do it and ppl will change and evolve with it....but we will save lives, money, time in the long run

Driving gives this entitlement feeling like everyone is in your way and everyone is slowing you down. Honestly until you're on the receiving end of it on a bike or walking I don't even think ppl realize how crazy it is. It's like so bad guys realize they're the bad guys? Probably not

Southbound Highway 99 closed after car strikes 2 bicyclists

Two bicyclists were struck by a vehicle in South Lake Union Monday morning, police say.

I like how the Seattle ferry terminal is playing god by opening a pretzel stand right in front of where every single bird on the waterfront hangs out

Tareq Alsaleh, Bilal Farooq, Zachary Patterson: Mobility Behaviour of Immigrants in Canada: Analyzing Mode Choice Using GPS Panel Data and Mixed Logit Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15564 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.15564

See also: developers continuing to build townhouses despite Seattle land use revisions trying to put the finger on the scale for stacked flats. The existing methods are dialed in, so why shift? Will take some risk-takers (and probably some failures) to prove the model.

I have had this thought about "avid" cyclists as well.

Yes, it's useful to know what people that already bike think about infrastructure, but if you want more people to bike you need to ask people that *don't* bike why.

Of course, there's range: small, scrappy, entrepreneurial developers have been asking for this reform from the beginning. But big national builders don't think about reform at all. And the vast middle only thinks in terms of things that they have seen change, e.g. energy codes or fees.

I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵

Ed's right: most developers don't often demand it. They look around at "comps" and see everything with (mandated) parking. They'll thus say, "I can [lease/sell/finance] anything without 1:1 parking!" They can't imagine a new market. And they definitely can't imagine sites unlocked by a reform.