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Blake Trask

@btrask.bsky.social

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Transportation 🚊🚲🚶🏽‍♀️🚎. Local Gov’t 🏛️🤝Cities 🛝🏗️🏙️. PNW🏔️🌲🌊. Work for @KccClaudia making our region better. Opinions still mine.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s good that citizen science can ground truth what the EPA is saying

Purple Air sensor network of air quality in the NYC metro. Image taken at 11:36 EDT on 7/15/26

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The 2 Line is an important part of a network, but it’s not the only part. The next major ST expansion is the BRT network (Stride) which will give people 33-38 AM peak travel times from Lynnwood to Bellevue. Current is 57 mins.

A comparison chart showing almost 50% travel time savings between Lynnwood and Bellevue when Stride BRT comes online in the late 2020s.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cont. 2/2

Blake and Councilmember Balducci at Mercer Island Station

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

What a super fun day opening transformative infrastructure! 1/2 #soundtransit #crosslake

Seattle Fire Department boat salutes the opening of light rail as cars drive by the new rail

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Always fun to run into the remains of bike share past. #seabikes

An old Jump Bike lying on the side of a Seattle street

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Moody Seattle skyline throwback

Smith Tower standing out while most of Seattle’s skyline stands obscured by low lying clouds

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Two amazing sights, all at one moment: “At nearly the same moment the railcar first entered the I-90 bridge from the Mercer Island side, 11:49 p.m., a thick shower of sparks streaked high above the park, from an apparent meteor.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

An apparent meteor streaks across the sky on Monday in Seattle, adding to the feeling that train fans were indeed part of a special event. (Nick Wagner / The Seattle Times)

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thanks to @theurbanist.org for putting together an all-star Urbanism on the Eastside Panel!

A full house listening to a panel of Eastside leaders.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Everybody, a “birthday festival” is happening today! #nokings

Image of front page of CNN’s website with headline that reads, “Army Birthday Festival Kicks off on National Mall”

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Trump Slump to the stock market is stark and real. H/t @gelliottmorris.com

Graph showing how awful the stock market is fairing under Trump, compared with previous administrations.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Today’s bridge opening is the third major project to reconnect people and places across State Route 520 in 2024. The other two are the Redmond Technology Station Bridge that links @microsoft.com campuses with light rail and the Overlake Ped Bridge. Also, what are we going to call this new bridge?

CM Claudia Balducci with Redmond and Sound Transit leaders at the Overlake Ped Bridge ribbon cutting

A view of the Redmond Technology Station Bridge

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Despite the blustery winds and horizontal rains, hundreds came out today to celebrate the opening of the newest bridge for people in Seattle! @wsdot520.bsky.social @wsdot.bsky.social @rogermillar.bsky.social

New SR 520 bridge is jam packed with people

People walking and biking on the newest bridge that knits together man area long severed by state route 520

View east from the new bridge. Landscaping burns serve to dampen the noise pollution of the SR 520 traffic below

View west from the new bridge over SR 520

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Fun to see #transportation agencies in #vancouver embracing the #TayorSwift phenomenon

Translink Skytrain map transformed into a map with bracelets and other Swiftie references

Translink Skytrain Stadium Chinatown station sign with bracelets font

Temporary construction sign near downtown Vancouver that reads “traffic not swift”

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Seattle yesterday

Seattle waterfront view from market, including new Overlook Walk and Great Wheel

Bell Harbor Marina and Elliot Bay from Overlook Walk

New view seating with Seattle skyline in background

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

People want safer streets now, not later. It’s why we see homegrown solutions in the face of DOT inaction.

Tactical urbanism using small planters on a neighborhood street to create a chicane

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Seattle’s new but still unopened waterfront bike path, featuring restrictive landscaping walls, and minimal buffer, is already seeing overgrowth that limits the usable zone to 5.5.” #seabikes

A new bike path on Seattle’s waterfront losing half of its already too narrow width to overgrowth from the adjacent vegetation

A new bike path on Seattle’s waterfront losing half of its width to overgrowth from the adjacent vegetation

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Cat mural adjacent to the Clark St bikeway

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

A mural that uses alley features to depict nature

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Montreal’s murals are fantastic

Spooky mural that appears vintage but with some odd changes to the individuals depicted, including a man with a humming bird face and another with some bull-like features

A mural with all sorts of pop culture included

A mural adjacent to a bookshop that includes Tintin references, plus more

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Seattle DOT’s street repainting continues to neglect maintaining complete streets #SEAbikes

A photo of freshly painted lines on Greenwood Ave N, except for the door zone bike lane line

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Sidewalk on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Seattle transportation in 2024

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Eclipse!

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Traffic is healing in Seattle

Single occupancy vehicles “blocking the box” at 9th Ave and Mercer ST in Seattle.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

“It’s a little bit crazy that we have an environmental policy act that hinders the development of projects that are fundamentally really good for the environment,” www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

A raised crosswalk located in a low density residential Burlington, VT neighborhood. They’re generally quicker, cheaper and easier to build than typical curb ramps - all while ensuring safer motorist behavior and priority for people crossing the street.

Raised crosswalk with well placed drainage

Continuous sidewalks give people crossing a clear physical and visual priority, while making it easier to cross

Raised crosswalks eliminate the need for complicated and costly curb ramp construction

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Another successful street without cars

People everywhere on Burlington’s Church St

Traffic calming with interesting brick work bollards and other pedestrian scale features mean cars traversing the street go slowly

Street performer entertaining hundreds in the public’s right of way

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

All aboard!

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

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