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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chicago's Jewelers Row. 8:30 AM on a sunny Saturday. People gather underneath the soft rumble of the elevated trains, attracted by a prosperous coffeehouse. We don't always need to fear elevated transit.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

$142k/stall is shockingly cheap by ST standards. Will be amazing if they build it for that.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ultimately, I agree that perfect is enemy of the good, but I wish they hadn’t designed the bikeway assuming it was the most dangerous facility in the corridor - all while keeping the GP lanes wide and straight (no speed tables or raised intersections either).

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“These are images 🇺🇸 servicembers want you to see…” ABC News reporter Rachel Scott (who Trump recently snapped at) shares images of destruction on 🇺🇸 military bases

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to meet you with Claudia last night! 🙂

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The east side likely wouldn't have light rail if it wasn't for Claudia Balducci.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have fond memories of biking this with you in the early 2010s when we were thinking about what the waterfront would become. That crazy pinch point is still there on the Port property, but the rest is much improved. Enjoy your time in Seattle.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If I’m guessing right, I hope someone got a slushy

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Finally, in my experience I’ve noticed that people on bikes are generally happier than many other road users. But it is true that they tend to get cranky when their lives are threatened by inattentive or negligent motorists who are simultaneously violating traffic laws.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also, not suggesting that this is what you’re observing but there are often issues with traffic signals not detecting bicycles and motorcycles. In those cases, there is a protocol for how to proceed, and that might look like running a red light app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default....

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RCW 46.61.184:

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just FYI that in WA state law allows for persons operating bicycles to treat stop signs as yields, except in certain situations app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default....

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RCW 46.61.190:

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Trash collection on a small e-tricycle. Vehicle size shouldn’t dictate urban design; cities should dictate the vehicles that serve them

Electric tricycle in the streets of the old quarter in Nice

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If only it was always that easy

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Not trying to point fingers per se, but powerful agents for the status quo live everywhere around us

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You would (or wouldn’t?) be surprised to see how often agency staff impede the work of elected officials who advocate for reducing serious injury and death in our transportation system

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If I were a state legislator I'd pass a climate emergency bill requiring WSDOT to add paint to create carpool lanes the entire length of I-5 and add double carpool lanes anywhere that existing carpool lanes get congested.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And that crossing is not super helpful for people biking because it pushes them into the main motorway lane. It got like a one-off ad hoc thing without much thought to the future of that antiquated street

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Both Bridge Way N and Greenlake Way N are relic streets from 1930s highway design and should be redesigned, or at least rechannelized, to meet Seattle’s current transportation priorities

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Last thing is in past bike master plans, the Seattle Parks Dept pushed back on making that lower woodland park road formal bike infrastructure, so it was never included, despite it being a clear multimodal desire line for just about everyone

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

*friends of woodland park avenue…

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Also thanks for all the Friends of Woodland Park advocacy! Super disappointing about the pushback but the changes have made a big difference already

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think it definitely would be better as a slow zone greenway rather than a PBL. I commute up and down that corridor and it needs to go all the way up to woodland park and cut through the old road by the lower woodland pump track.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s time for the Seattle Parks Department to move into the 21st Century: build and preserve places for people, not cars.

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destinationpike.bsky.social @destinationpike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Exploring Granville Street Pedestrian Zone today with Downtown Van showing us the big success and the problem points and learnings they’ve had along the way!

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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Stone Way is a major gap in the safe bike infrastructure (blue on the map). Seattle won’t reach Vision Zero or substantially increase the share of bicycle travel until we fix such gaps www.reddit.com/r/seattlebik...

Map showing protected bike lanes in blue with no base maps to highlight the lack of connection

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Can we build Ballard link” is a central question for the American transit construction establishment.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A masterclass in how to conduct an interview in an era when vibes matter more than information

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 18/07/2026

Great movie. The 20 year long journey home reminds me of navigating our SEPA process. We’re approaching that for Fort Lawton and Missing Link. media1.tenor.com/m/_AzWdWsoOB...

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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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

Environmental review at the urban level has become a farce.

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Blake Trask @btrask.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So many single points of failure

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

SEPA when you want to grow by one million people in a sustainable and compact way:

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Heidi Simon: “We know what works. We don’t need more studies. We need the will to get done what needs to get done – and that means changing the roads.” Beth Osborne, Heidi Simon, Joe Martinez and Nichole Rogers walk us through Dangerous by Design 2026, by @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social (link below).

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This budget request is moving forward, but Claudia Balducci and Jorge Barón did put secure funding for a report asking for Zahilay's full RTO strategy. That amendment followed a failed attempt to put a hold on the funds to reopen the Admin Building until that report was delivered.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rerouting and reclaiming SR 99 through South Park would result in an 86% reduction in Pollution Generating Impervious Surfaces, per this report. It really seems like that would help Southern Resident Killer Whales more than keeping housing banned.

Chart showing the reroute and reclaim option would reduce PGIS by 86%.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.

Person walking across a large intersection wearing a construction vest.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

live feed of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfk...

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Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/06/2026

In total transit ridership per capita, the highest ranked large urban areas are: 1—NYC 2—SF 3—DC 4—Boston 5—Seattle 6—Chicago 7—Philly 8—LA 9—Portland 10—Salt Lake www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...

Large urban areas, by total transit ridership in 2024, ranked.

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