Right now, our transit system is breaking records and delivering real value for our families. I appreciate City Council’s partnership in crafting a package to voters offering a low-cost way to bring people more and better of the cheapest travel option available, public transit.

Coming home from a community meeting in N Aurora tonight my two-bus trip home took 77min. It’s a 14min drive. That’s the hidden time tax riders pay every day. I never take for granted how far we’ve come in delivering a fair transportation system in Seattle, and yet we have so much further to go.

“the story should be how transit agencies are building for the new world, not how they are bringing back the old one” 👏👏👏 Seattle’s Frequent Transit Network is our vision to do exactly this, and the Seattle Transit Measure is our pathway. 🚎

Jarrett Walker@humantransit.bsky.social · last mo.

Transit agencies should stop talking about getting "back" to pre-COVID ridership. Here's why. humantransit.org/2026/06/tran...

Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington. Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.

Car-free Sundays alone reduced children’s asthma attacks by 15% in Paris and Brussels. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Impact assessment of local traffic interventions on disease burden: A case study on paediatric asthma incidence in two European cities

Air pollution, particularly NO2, contributes to poor health, including paediatric asthma. This study estimated the reduction in NO2 concentrations on …

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Daniel Moser@dmoser.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

1 in 5 children in the United States lives in food insecurity.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

It’s happening! Yesler Way is getting a new protected bike lane from Occidental Ave S to the waterfront.

I don't want to be a vulnerable road user. I just want to get around.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01... What I want to know is - what’s been urgently done to prevent a car-attack mass casualty event in Seattle (especially Pike Place and Occidental) during the World Cup (and beyond)?

New Orleans Attack Live Updates: Truck Driven Into Crowd Appeared to Have Explosives, Investigators Say

At least 10 people were killed in the attack on New Year’s revelers in the French Quarter, and about 35 more were injured. Investigators said they found what appeared to be improvised explosive device...

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