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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 29/09/2026

Also I found a long lost picture of Bob Kettle.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 28/08/2026

Seems maybe Big Tech is not quite as breathlessly eager to jump on the orange guy’s whim anymore.

Screenshot of Apple Maps showing “Lake Ontario” label

Screenshot of Google Maps showing “Lake Ontario” label

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 19/08/2026

Too long. Needs to be shorter.

Aggressively shortened VW Type 2 bus, roughly one wheel diameter between the wheels.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 31/05/2026

Not the worst day to go tangle with cars…

Apple Map of a bike ride covering both the 520 and I-90 bridges

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 14/02/2026

Here’s my vision of how to do this (not just for Capitol Hill, but for all of urbanized central Seattle). This network uses the same number of service hours as today’s (with expected additions for RR expansion).

A schematic map of a proposed new bus network for Central Seattle intended to use the same number of hours as today’s network. Map includes many new and/or more frequent connections.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 08/10/2025

😊 What yields enough hours for that is rationalizing downtown, where buses waste an extraordinary amount of time trundling uselessly up and down 3rd and Pine/Pike. This map is revenue-neutral.

A schematic map of a new bus network proposal for central Seattle.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 23/09/2025

My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant and now I can draw something like this and tell you exactly how many bus hours you’d need to run it.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 10/09/2025

I mean, it’s the same approach as Harrell takes to every other transit improvement. Supporting massive mode share shift, without bothering with any actual action that would persuade an actual person to switch from a car to a train or bus.

The famous SDOT mode share graph, showing a doubling of transit mode share by 2030.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 09/09/2025

Yet First, & its Pioneer Square part in particular, are critical missing pieces in Seattle transit. My redesign of downtown bus service would send *20 buses/hour* through at least part of the Pioneer Square segment of First. And past experience suggests that volume of service would be well used. 3/

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 27/08/2025

The only critical comment I got after posting my center-city network (see image) was like "It's confusing; it's not gridded enough." There's a grid, but I'll admit it's tight, with a lot of L shapes. What really sticks out is 4 separate N-S corridors, 2-3 blocks apart. Let's talk about them. 1/🧵

A schematic map of a proposal for a new bus network in the Seattle central city. Shows route families as lines, each with a different color, and with thickness dependent on combined frequency. Includes 7.5-minute or better service on nine separate corridors.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 22/08/2025

We could have this incredibly useful bus network with: - the same number of service hours as today's network (with planned RapidRide additions) - no changes to any service not on this map Neither Metro nor SDOT has ever focused on the central city bus network. It's time to start. More to come. 🧵

Schematic map of a bus network proposal for central Seattle, using thick colored lines to indicate ultra-frequent service corridors.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 25/05/2025

Shorter Rand Paul (really, speaking for the entire GOP): I support all the things that increase the debt, but I want to bamboozle you ignorant marks about it.

The longtime fiscal hawk warned that the measure would add trillions in new borrowing with minimal offsets. While Paul supports parts of the bill, including its tax cuts and its spending reductions, he argued that the scale of the debt ceiling increase undermines conservatives’ commitment to fiscal responsibility.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 21/05/2025

In fact, Massachusetts (including Boston) has been stuck in the doldrums with respect to housing production.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 25/04/2025

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll

King County Metro bus improbably stuck along Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 11/01/2025

I hereby declare this account a VGA shrine (at least until I follow one more person).

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 30/12/2024

can haz bus to the market? (Seriously, this is so close… I can't wait to share it)

Little teaser of a schematic map of downtown buses, showing lots of buses running along First Avenue, and one lil pink line along the waterfront

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 28/12/2024

This is sticking in my craw. Let’s be clear about what it means to double transit mode share. It means actually prioritizing buses, even where that slows cars down. It means systematically addressing the issues that keep people from riding. It means funding a LARGE increase in bus service. 1/2

SDOT modeshare targets. Shows transit mode share doubling. h/t pushtheneedle.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 17/12/2024

Hey let's repurpose some old and very missed route numbers!

Screenshot of a tiny fragment of a schematic map, showing bus routes numbered "6" and "16" running near the northeast corner of Seattle Center

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 09/12/2024

77. I know that amber headsigns are more legible to more people in more conditions. But I still miss the last generation of fluorescent-dot signs—the ones with an individual green LED to reflect off each dot. The soft green light they made looked so nice at night.

KCM 3560 (retired) running former route 201, after dark.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 08/12/2024

Second answer: when you're driving west on the Capital Beltway, it feels for a mile or two like you are being pulled into the Washington D.C. LDS Temple by a tractor beam.

The Washington D.C. LDS Temple from the Capital Beltway.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 08/12/2024

Last time I was in New York, I simply could not ignore the Brooklyn Tower when I was in any place where I could see it. It has complete Sauron energy.

A drone picture of the Brooklyn Tower, a very black, very tall ersatz Art Deco skyscraper.

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 05/12/2024

Because “more PARKING” makes for such appealing cities!

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 30/12/2023

Enjoying learning to make a proper schematic map for my central Seattle bus network… just a taste, more coming later.

Small bit of schematic transit map showing proposed bus routes in the south end of downtown Seattle.

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