This is the same person posting dumb takes in response to @jeremycole.bsky.social posting about his charity work. Don't feed the troll!

Illustrated poster from Seattle Parks & Recreation promoting “Bicycle Weekends 2026.” The scene shows a person riding a bike and another walking along a scenic path with mountains, trees, and flowers. Text reads: “Bike, walk, or roll with us on Lake Washington Blvd! No cars on select dates,” followed by dates in May through September.

Lake Washington Blvd will be open to people & closed to car traffic every weekend this summer from Memorial Day to Labor Day!

The predictable schedule makes it easier walk, bike, roll, along, or drive to the boulevard.

Thank you Mayor Wilson, community advocates, and Rainier Valley Safe Streets.

People who ride their bikes on the sidewalks should get 2-way protected bike lanes

Context: There’s this weird thing happening on Twitter right now where automatic translation is causing a super cool cultural exchange between Japanese speakers and Americans. People are going back and forth sharing their meals and it’s delightful.

I’ve rarely seen anything like this on Bluesky.

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Wishing Kemper Freeman a very happy I-90 light rail day.

Part of the experience riding on the first 2-line train across the I-90 bridge:

- Waiting at platform: "Next train to Downtown Redmond in 2 minutes." Crowd cheers
- On the train; "This is the train to DT Redmond." Crowd cheers
- We start moving; "Next stop, Mercer Island." Crowd starts booing 😂

A 3D model of a Toronto barrier with a metal plate adhered to the bottom, with the plate extending beyond the width of the barrier, extending out into what would be a road.

I'm no engineer, but could @seattledot.bsky.social could do something like this to solve this recurring problem?
- Mount a metal plate to the bottom of a Toronto barrier, by gluing it on and drilling supports into the barrier.
- The plate is wider than the barrier & extends out a bit into the road

Obviously not as strong as something made of solid steel, but maybe enough to keep the barrier from moving from incidental nudges?

A photograph of several mobile L-shaped Meridian-brand steel barriers blocking the entrance to a roadway.

- The plate is glued to the road, like the barrier has been so far.
- When a vehicle tries to push the barrier, it pushes against the internal supports too, which are mounted to the plate, but the vehicle is weighing down the plate, preventing the whole thing from moving.

Similar idea to these guys

A 3D model of a Toronto barrier with a metal plate adhered to the bottom, with the plate extending beyond the width of the barrier, extending out into what would be a road.

I'm no engineer, but could @seattledot.bsky.social could do something like this to solve this recurring problem?
- Mount a metal plate to the bottom of a Toronto barrier, by gluing it on and drilling supports into the barrier.
- The plate is wider than the barrier & extends out a bit into the road

The Right Bike - Find Your Perfect Ride! Find the right bike to help cycling replace some of your car trips, and see how much you could save!

@volts.wtf I haven't formally launched it (have been getting feedback yesterday and fixing more), but I'd invite you to try out my new website, Find The Right Bike!

I ask four simple questions to help you pick the right bike, electric or otherwise and see the savings! (thanks for the call-out Cyn)

They were westbound, too!

I think a few of my friends were on the same train 😅. I got an earful from them! They said they booked a hotel for the night, and the town was so small that the hotel manager, her husband, and the sheriff were carting folks around!

The first year of congestion pricing in New York saw straphangers take more than 90 million additional subway rides than in the previous year, a new report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) found. According to the rider advocacy group's analysis, which it released on Tuesday, ridership on the city's rails grew from 1.21 billion to 1.3 billion between 2024 and 2025. The bump marked a 7.7% rise - double the increase in ridership between 2023 and 2024.

here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year

It's

parking lot

trail

Change is possible: Seattle's Westlake Ave Trail before/after

The super useful Westlake Trail was carved out of a publicly owned parking lot. It was absurdly controversial at the time, with the loudest opponents being a “super yacht” marina. Now it’s loved and no one wants to go back.

Bid limits—prohibiting local governments from performing their own work over a certain dollar value—are a form of privatization that increases the cost of government.

This is just dumb. If the agency can't charge fares riders shouldn't be expected to have magically paid them.

We miss you!

A slide that reads Bollards to Barriers with an array of bollards and raising barriers at major event venues around the world

A slide reading mix of solutions with some photos of barricades and bollards including the large truck currently at the front entrance of Pike Place

URGENT BOLLARD ALERT.

SDOT is going to the Pike Place Market Historical Commission next Wednesday to get initial guidance on the "physical protective barriers" planned ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

The board is getting its temperature taken on a "hybrid approach" of bollards and vehicle barricades.

I was an ORCA card reader for Halloween

Great news: Julia Reed is reintroducing the presumed liability bill this session (it was HB 1518 last session). The new bill will be slightly narrower in scope. If passed, drivers will be presumed at fault if they collide with a pedestrian or cyclist in a bike lane, crosswalk, or intersection.

Imagine them locking eyes across a crowded ballroom

IYKYK ..... Had to sketch this guy.
Drop a comment if you know where this character is from

#illustration #art #design #drawing #graphicdesign

Chart showing start of simulated service on October 3 and revenue service December 13

Simulated service starts Jan 20 with float between April 13 and April 24

Sound Transit's new monthly status report on system expansion (released today) pegs the grand opening day for Federal Way Link at December 13, 2025.

And for the full East Link line at April 25, 2026.

BIRD!

My most recent commission - a really fun challenge making non-standard VTuber models! This is my test live tracking my motion in VSeeFace to make sure it's all working correctly🪶

The quickest way to crank out pedestrian refuge islands would be for the elected officials to provide a steady annual budget for in-house staff to design & construct the islands
We did that in LA for Vision Zero for a while
The key to making it work is long term local funding & ability to hire

We’ve continued our historic investments in needed affordable housing, including We are working every day to create and preserve homes that will serve generations of Seattle residents. We’ve continued to invest in youth and families by expanding mental health services for young people and launching the and proposal to renew the Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise (FEPP) Levy, which would double access to quality, affordable childcare. Supporting young people and families is one of the most important investments we can make in Seattle’s future.

I like how Mayor Harrell wanted to provide examples of his work on affordable housing in his latest newsletter but just sort of gave up.