seattle also (and yet our levies always talk about costs to *homeowners*)

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 22h ago

Renters pay higher property taxes in NYC than single-family homeowners

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15h ago

Greetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.

The new curbs on Denny and Boren are beautiful! Route 8 sailing free in the background. The sign was on, telling drivers to detour, I just snapped it when it was flashing

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Summer Streets, the rare time NYC goes car free, always demonstrate how unjust our streets are normally

Drivers had to "find a new route" (follow these same marked detour signs) earlier this year due to construction activity and it wasn't news then.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d ago

This story is fine, but the headline the Seattle Times chose implies that a new bus lane is forcing drivers to just "find a new" route to I-5. No, the engineering project actually includes a new route to I-5. Anything to make it look like a progressive mayor is causing chaos, I guess?

Fixing misleading @seattletimes.com headlines could be someone's full-time job.

After 5 years of trying to build a solar array that would generate 20% of Seattle’s power use, this project is abandoned after tribal opposition and the state not delivering power lines to move the energy. This state is so frustrating sometimes www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Developer walks away from long-planned WA solar farm

After five years of running into one obstacle after another, the developer of a proposed 2,400-acre solar farm east of Wenatchee has decided to walk away.

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This story is fine, but the headline the Seattle Times chose implies that a new bus lane is forcing drivers to just "find a new" route to I-5. No, the engineering project actually includes a new route to I-5. Anything to make it look like a progressive mayor is causing chaos, I guess?

Thousands of Seattle drivers and bus riders are in for a big change

How will Mayor Katie Wilson's move to speed the "Late 8" change Denny Way for transit riders and as many as 30,000 motorists who drive it on an average weekday?

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We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

The Yale slip lane is now permanently closed, with Boren handling all I-5 traffic! We had a great time meeting the SDOT crew and can't wait to see the improvements this will bring for the L8! We'll head back down later today to share some more photos after everything is fully installed.

The demand for pedestrianized streets in NYC is insane

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 3d ago

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

Despite having the largest network of train tracks in the world, the United States has a serious lack of passenger rail services. That’s not by accident, as Rollie Williams of @climatetown.bsky.social explains in this video. Sunday Video: www.theurbanist.org/sunday-video...

Sunday Video: Where Are America’s Trains?

Despite having the largest network of train tracks in the world, the United States has a serious lack of passenger rail services. That’s not by accident, as Rollie Williams of Climate Town explains in...

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It's literally hilarious how little waterfront pedestrian space WSDOT left for people walking to the stadiums

Simply incredible that we're finally going to fix the L8.

ask them what they're mad about. that she fired the police chief? that she took too long to hold a press conference because she had to wait for the police chief who was flying back from yet another conference? do you hear how that sounds when you say it out loud

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 4d ago

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

So… they’re working

Great to see the new traffic patterns on Denny Way! The concrete barriers can’t come soon enough.

If you, like me, are just waking up and wondering what "derailment recovery" Sound Transit's service alerts are referring to. This train was initially in the pocket track at IDS.

Cortana@cortanav.bsky.social · 3d ago

Nobody freak out but the Seattle light rail just derailed across the track at the Chinatown International District station.

i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like

Folks, if you’re not creating active public spaces, you’re not properly celebrating the full diversity of people, talents, interests, cultures, and subcultures that exist in your city.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d ago

Do you know about soccer tennis? Saturday nights are tournament night for the sport on the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone, & these teams are no joke! Nice way to cap off a great day on the people-street. Overheard one family talking about how they “can’t believe how great Granville Street is now.”

New York City today. Summer Streets returned to Manhattan for the first of three car-free Saturdays. New Yorkers were able to bike, jog and walk on streets that were closed to traffic.

It's entirely possible that the Times/Brandi Kruse/City Council will start demanding Katie Wilson's resignation next week, which the public does not want, and would not support. But the anti-Wilson group is so deep in a bubble that I don't think they understand how strong the backlash would be.

Robert Cruickshank@robertcruickshank.com · 4d ago

Danny Westneat joins the Seattle Times in full scale war against Mayor Katie Wilson, which is no surprise but another example of the Brandi Kruse-ification of local establishment media. They've gone from providing independent reporting and analysis to using their perches for a partisan agenda.

That was the plan when this spot was supposed to get a light rail station.

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 4d ago

This exceptionally cute spot really wants to be a plaza. Less road, pls.

Absolutely incredible that Westneat and other critics of the mayor believe Shon Barnes was appointed by her and that SHE should have "worked out" his desire to travel constantly with him as part of his contract, when he was appointed by Bruce Harrell in 2024. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle City Hall rarely runs smoothly. This week it hit new lows

The spectacle of the neophyte mayor and the frequent flyer police chief, both failing at their jobs when they were needed most, is not going to pass lightly.

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Ideally I can always catch a bus exactly to where I want to go on the timetable that works for my day. Sometimes, however, I have to hop on a bus that gets me closer to where I want to be than I am right now but not all the way there. This is a metaphor about voting.

Car free Summer Streets is the best free event in the world, but the city has added some new absurdities this year.

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

Car ownership is a scam. Every element is a scam. Buying a car is legendarily scammy. Advertising: manipulative and gross. Gas prices: at the whim of a madman. Insurance: scam. Repairs: scam. The Jiffy Lube in Ballard: staffed by unsupervised criminals. (Sorry to get oddly specific at the end.)