Our thoughts are with the family & friends of the person who lost their life in this crash. Highways do not belong in our cities, full stop. So long as Bellevue is a city of stroads, wide intersections, & freeway offramps, these tragedies will keep happening. They are incompatible with #VisionZero.
Seattle Bike Blog@seattlebikeblog.com · 4d agoSUV driver strikes and kills person biking on Bellevue Way near I-90 Trail detour route #SEAbikes #Seattle
What's the status of transit projects awaiting federal funds? I built a tracker: www.thetransportpolitic.com/openlines/fe... There are 20 transit projects that should have been funded by the Trump administration by now... but are waiting. For each project, you can see delays & cost increases ⏬
I love living on the border of First Hill and Pioneer Square and taking a ferry from SeaTac Airport to West Seattle. It's too bad about what happened to Lake Union though.
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year #SEAbikes #Seattle
We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year
Data through September 29. Sometime Monday evening (September 28), somebody rolled across the Fremont Bridge and registered the one millionth bike or scooter trip so far this year. The old bike counter display had both a daily count and a thermometer-style counter that filled up over the course of the year. That thermometer maxed out at one million. When the city first installed the counter with sponsorship from Cascade Bicycle Club, one million was seen as an aspirational number. Seattle just hit that figure before October. Last year, the bridge didn't reach the 1 million mark until mid-December.
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8 hours later and the best SDOT could do was add a few cones. If these were in the car lanes do you think they'd still be there?
David Seater 🚶♂️🚴🏻♂️🏳️🌈@davidseater.com · 4w agoI continue to believe that a bike lane is only "protected" if it has steel beams anchored into concrete to keep drivers out.
Who do you want to have the final say on street safety projects in historic districts: 1) The Seattle Department of Transportation’s Chief Transportation Safety Officer Or 2) Historic boards SDOT could consult historic boards to ensure a continuity of character without giving them a veto on safety
Seattle Streets Alliance@streetsalliance.bsky.social · last mo.Just this year, the Pioneer Square Preservation Board blocked SDOT's proposal to prevent illegal car parking and improve safety and accessibility at 18 intersections in Pioneer Square. These intersections have a history of crashes, and SDOT knew how to make them safer, but were not allowed to.
Route 8’s eastbound on-time performance is on track to exceed 80% in September 2026. This will be the first time eastbound Route 8 trips meet Metro’s 80% on-time goal in at least 7 years.
Nick@nicksattele.bsky.social · 2mo agoA dedicated transit lane separates buses from general purpose traffic and insulates its speed and reliability from the variability of car traffic.
I have 24 hours to dispute 100 dmca takedowns or we lose @gamechops.com
FYI, I will be grabbing a bunch of these Metro World Cup signs (and maps) today before they're tossed. Reach out if you'd like one and I'll let you know which I've got to choose from.
Derek of WayfindDesigns@dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com · 4mo agoHeading to the match tomorrow? Hop on any of these routes!
I collected metrics this week on my commute home from Westlake on the new @fixthel8.bsky.social bus lane. Going from Westlake to Capitol Hill Station reliably takes less than 10 minutes now! One trip to CHS took less than 7. It's a game-changer.
I’m not a “fire them all” kind of person but the traffic engineers who got this so dramatically wrong need to fundamentally reexamine their assumptions.
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhere is the Carmageddon they promised?
Power's out in the neighborhood because someone crashed their e-bike into a power pole. Still a chaotic scene 7 hours later. jk it was a car
It’s incredible how a fucking bike lane gets delayed for 15 years in Ballard over “environmental review” and we just decide cars return to pike place in 6 weeks with no process
A cool thing I spotted today: an electric cargo bike available for rental as part of the Montreal public transport system. A mid-drive motor and only $35 for a full day rental or $95 for an annual membership!
The principles underlying Vision Zero in Seattle are excellent but the culture change hasn't happened and so SDOT is continuing to build and rebuild deadly streets. Here is my 🧵thread of actions that can help Vision Zero back on track.
Some things I've learned about legislative advocacy, and I think my record speaks for itself. 1. Start by asking for everything you want. Stop preemptively negotiating against yourself. The process of passing the bill will whittle it down. Why started with a whittled down product?
We saved an archive of all of them. You can find them here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Bikepedantic@pedantic.bike · 3mo agoTrump’s war on science comes for bikes and Vision Zero. Proven Safety Countermeasures are a set of street design tools that FHWA career engineers judge to have been proven to improve safety. They delisted Bike Lanes, Road Diets, and three speed management tools. highways.dot.gov/safety/prove...
after 19 years, the legend returns 🥲🥲🥲
8bitpeoples@8bitpeoples.bsky.social · 3mo agoOUT NOW: 8BP142 Random - Arpeggio Springs Arpeggio Springs is Random’s third 8bitpeoples release, following 2007’s Bad Joke EP. Nineteen years is a long time, but the sound hasn’t missed a step – or even a tick! Chipmusic will never die. www.8bitpeoples.com/products/876...
With just a few minor modifications we could easily make Seattle Center accessible to cars. It's frankly quite problematic that people can't just drive up to the International Fountain or the Mural Amphitheatre
Too many people have been killed on Seattle’s streets in recent weeks. These tragedies are preventable. Tell Seattle leaders to improve intersection safety, require side guards on large trucks, and prioritize Vision Zero. Take Action: actionnetwork.org/letters/plea...
I don't understand why parking enforcement everywhere tries to treat their job as some sort of friendly negotiation to do whatever they can to avoid giving the car driver a ticket. Just literally write the ticket. No questions, no negotiation, no extralegal grace period... just write the ticket. 🫠
Jehiah@jehiah.cz · 4mo ago👮♂️📞 "you called 311?" 👮♂️📞 "Are you still at that location?" Me: No 👮♂️📞 "so you don't want to meet with police regarding this?" What the heck - just ticket the vehicles parked illegally in the sidewalk extension. It's not complicated. 311-27906359
Her direct quote: "You can propose a sales tax for public safety, and no one blinks an eye. You can propose a sales tax for roads, and no one blinks an eye. But when a progressive mayor proposes a sales tax for public transit, all of a sudden some people are very concerned about taxes."
This is the space between parked cars and same direction traffic with a small car hugging the centerline. Imagine it’s a box truck and there is traffic in the other lane. And they decided to pass you, on a bike. Tell me they”gave space” and it was a “freak accident”. Fuck all the way off.
RapidRide G hit a huge milestone last month seeing 7,325 weekday average boardings Its high water mark is now at over 3,250 riders per mile. A single digit number of cities have a bus line with a ridership per mile half that high and only a few with ridership per mile higher
In a post on X, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith said the booing graduates are “reminding us that AI should serve people, not replace them.” That they needed reminding in the first place is the whole problem.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4mo agoMicrosoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
Some heroes don't wear capes
Alex@alexh666.bsky.social · 4mo agojust saw a video of a guy running after a bus he missed and then another guy passing by in a cargo bike told him to hop in the front basket and the they passed the bus and the cyclist dropped the dude at the next stop 😭😭😭 www.instagram.com/reel/DXzdVAX...
Turns out Westlake Park really needed a coffee kiosk.
