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People love trains, part 87. As always, electeds should remember that building trains is about the most popular thing they can do.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 9h

There is no possible articulable reason for this decision except sheer bloodthirstiness. Something has gone deeply, deeply wrong with the basic moral structure of the American right wing.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 14h

My most radical take is that TOD is a scam invented by single-family home preservationists to find a scientifically sound way to concentrate "those people" is specific areas outside of where real people live, and urbanists have embraced it because it's better than nothing.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 14h

Speaking of new Jackson Park/Lake City network… it just occurred to me that you could get more frequency cheaply by extending the 72 south from Shoreline South to Northgate via 5th NE and revising the 75 to go to Bitter Lake instead of Northgate, staggered with 77 as closely as schedule allows.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 14h

If King County Metro and SDOT can get route 77 up to 10-minute frequency across a wide span, Pinehurst Station will exceed its ridership projections and be a lot more useful than people online are giving it credit for.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 17h

“Stakeholdering,” verb: engaging in a two-year public freakout over a traffic safety project that forced you to go around a block to access a parking lot.

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I realized some of you might not be aware it is possible to preorder a plush King County Metro style bus Don't worry I am here to help merch.fixthel8.com/us/all-products/plush-bus

Photo from the website that has a cute plush "eight" bus with eyes and everything, KC Metro stile with green and yellow, lovingly placed on a sidewalk curb in front of an actual 8 bus. It is the most adorable thing you've ever seen and you definitely need to buy one

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 29/09/2026

When you stretch the word “public” far, far beyond its breaking point.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 29/09/2026

Also I found a long lost picture of Bob Kettle.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 29/09/2026

This and earlier threads on the council reaction to @mayor.seattle.gov’s budget are illuminating a simply staggering level of incompetence and grandstanding on the part of a majority of the council, but especially CMs Strauss, Saka, and Rivera. These three couldn’t be trusted with a lemonade stand.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 28/09/2026

A large part of the fact that I’ve never had a serious bike crash is just sheer good luck. But another part is that I ride angry and paranoid whenever I’m on a street with cars. That’s not great for mental health, and I experience it as serious punishment for not driving.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 25/09/2026

There really ought to be consequences for just baldly making stuff up from the dais.

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you want "everyone is welcome here!" to be a reality, your housing prices need to match your kind words

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 25/09/2026

Every anti-transit advocate who argues for buses instead of trains and then turns around and argues against buses should have to sit in the corner with a cone hat labeled “BAD FAITH.”

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 23/09/2026

When you look at the extreme most NIMBY edge of San Francisco housing positions and decide the problem with them is that they allow too much new housing.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 23/09/2026

You just know Vance is the guy who lets super stinky ones go in the car with his whole family.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I ride the B65 almost every day. The seniors and disabled people who depend on it are failed by its current service and would greatly benefit from parking removal, but that’s not what these “advocates“ actually want.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A day of bike commuting where I just got sick as fuck of bad, aggressive drivers. Not even because I had any close calls, but because it was just EVERYWHERE I looked today. For christ sake have two ounces of personal responsibility when you’re driving a car. rant over

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 21/09/2026

Intense proxy war between Russia and Western Europe taking place in North America.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Effective Government is a Progressive Value

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 18/09/2026

Just like one of those phone chargers that looks like an Apple OEM one from ten feet away but will actually set your apartment on fire.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17/09/2026

Car dealers are a reliable and influential power bloc for Republicans. Today on Assigned, @emarcadia.bsky.social writes that Democrats should politicize them and pursue them and other bastions of Republican power as relentlessly as Republicans have pursued the Democratic coalition.

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Consider the Car Dealerships - Assigned Media

Republicans have long waged war against Democratic constituencies. What if we turned the tables?

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 18/09/2026

This move took guts from Rinck, Foster, and Lin, and deserves real appreciation. It's never easy to go up against the status quo when it is presented as "historic preservation." Now, we need to make sure that Strauss + either Juarez or Hollingsworth also vote yes. (Rivera is an obvious lost cause.)

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two of the five members of Seattle City Council's transportation committee voted to give historic boards a veto over street safety improvements. If you disagree, you should email council@seattle.gov as the final vote it not a sure thing

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This post may be the most effective argument right now for letting public transit wither. It may not make sense to you, but it feels right to many, many people. So in a short new post, I talk through what's going on here, and how to engage with it. humantransit.org/2026/09/the-...

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 17/09/2026

3 staple punctures in less than six weeks. I’m cursed.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 16/09/2026

We need these on E Union along route 2. Separate from bus/bike conflicts, right now too many people are parking cars in the bus stops.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 15/09/2026

With three of Sen̓áḵw’s 11 towers now complete, the development is already dramatically reshaping Vancouver’s skyline, and provoking plenty of chatter about its scale, density and ambition. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Inside North America's Largest Indigenous-Led Housing Development | The Tyee

The vision underpinning the architecture of Sen̓áḵw.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 15/09/2026

The experience of trying to walk in an American city, boiled down to one picture.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 14/09/2026

CM Rivera is something we haven’t had much of in Seattle: an old-fashioned, spoils-distributing machine politician.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 13/09/2026

Hot take: If @flysea.bsky.social wants to run a golf cart along the only pedestrian connection to the light rail they should just drive it at walking speed instead of taking half the space and honking at people.

Photo of a sign in the pedestrian walkway to Link at SEA that reads: "Pedestrians Stay to the RIGHT; Shuttle in use."

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Cordilleran Margin @cordilleranmargin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're a really young city, I wish we'd embrace that and be ok changing more things. I like old buildings and learning about the city through them. But we don't have to be too precious about it. William Grose had a ranch behind the East Madison YMCA on 23rd 125 years ago!.

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We are here tonight to insist that all of us, whether we drive or not, deserve to be able to fully participate in community life. Let's support the Seattle Transit Measure, and let's not forget about the Pierce measure transit too. Transit is freedom.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 12/09/2026

If I just thought a bit harder about climate change, I’d figure out that the best way to deal with it is to cut down acres of trees, build new exurban subdivisions with 90-minute car commutes, and thereby save a few scattered trees in city yards. 🤔🤔

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cities with long permitting times for new housing tend to have higher housing costs, per new paper: "permitting duration is positively associated with housing prices and negatively associated with production." evansoltas.com/papers/Durat...

chart showing project duration for single- and multi-family housing in select US cities. Seattle is among the slowest.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 10/09/2026

Remember this whenever you hear the slightest whining about tolls, car tabs, or gas taxes. Raise all of those and impose congestion charges to fund transit.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 10/09/2026

@jayapal.house.gov this is incredibly disappointing. Our future is not with more cars, sprawl, and 2-hour commutes. But that is the outcome Supervisor Chan has always worked for.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

yeah ok i think we're done with the 'based populist anti-elitist who doesn't give a FUCK', earnest nerds from now on

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 09/09/2026

A bus being roughly as fast as a sprinting Real Runner is an excellent speed goal!

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 09/09/2026

If I call CM Rivera a “buttface” it may be rude, but at least (1) it is actually true and (2) I am just doing it once.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 09/09/2026

Is there any consequence for just making shit up on the dais? There should be.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last year they had people doing hopscotch and line dancing beating this thing, now they need that British dude who ran the mile in 3:42

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 08/09/2026

Trump is falling apart in public, just like Biden did, and yet nobody in the "liberal media" will talk about it.

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Buses do so much

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Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 06/09/2026

this carbrain hypocrisy extends to right wing causes too of course -tough on crime, except driving -Fiscal conservative, except driving

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 05/09/2026

This is just really sad. I can’t even snark about it, it’s just too sad.

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 05/09/2026

This is going to age about as well as the airbrush paint jobs on ‘70s vans, except they will all stop working after a few years so they’ll never age into historical artifacts.

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Sandy Johnston @sandypsj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Come work with me! The Strategic Transit Planning team at the MBTA is hiring for an early/mid-career planner/analyst position. This position won't report to me, but we'll work closely together on an excellent, forward-looking team. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...

governmentjobs.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It would be a vast understatement to say I'm disappointed by Janeese Lewis George campaigning with—and lavishly praising—Trayon White, a notoriously corrupt conspiracy theorist who was expelled from the DC Council for bribery and said Jews control the weather. www.facebook.com/share/v/1B83...

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