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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

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Doggie daddy, safe streets advocate, software test engineer. Volunteer and co-chair emeritus with Central Seattle Greenways.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 29/09/2026
Wow, I hope they're ok!
Screenshot of a news article titled "Amtrak Borealis hits 500,000 riders"
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not sure why Strauss spent so much time humiliating the women who came to speak before his committee with questions that were basically unrelated to the budget, like why service on his bus route hasn't been restored. Felt bad for both SDOT and mayoral staffers.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 29/09/2026
Maybe because SDOT has prioritization frameworks that don't include "because a council member complained a lot"?
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rivera also mentioned that she has no idea where the department is installing new school speed zone cameras in 19 locations. "Would love to know where those are because again, this goes back to communication back to the constituents. I don't know where those are." She voted for them last year.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 29/09/2026
I can think of several grants that SDOT has had to return in recent years because they didn't actually do the work. Who knows how many they didn't even apply for 🤷🏻‍♂️
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 28/09/2026
New sign taped to the gym door. Agree 💯!
Handwritten sign reading: Cell phone should not be used while using weight machines."
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 28/09/2026
New train day for @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov !
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 28/09/2026
Are there seriously no bike racks in front of King Street Station @transportation.seattle.gov @wsdot.wa.gov ? Wow.
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Sam @sluikens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's a perfect day to tell SDOT to pedestrianize Barbara Bailey Way (were the Sunday farmers market sets up in Capitol Hill). Come get your market goods and then pop into the open house just around the corner.
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Asher @asher755.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@transportation.seattle.gov - hey when will you all start the project here that's supposed to fix this??
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YES!!!
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The governor referred to these new diesel trains as state of the art.
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 26/09/2026
Your regular reminder that the bloated police budget takes money away from habitat restoration, tree planting, new park construction, stormwater mgmt, new bike lanes, transit, libraries, creation of a transformative green youth corps, schools, sidewalks, rental assistance, EDI and on and on forever
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Rainier Valley Safe Streets @rvgreenways.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is yet another car crash on MLK Jr way S impacting light rail service tonight.
Traffic camera showing police response to a car crash near MLK and Othello
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's fun to watch the council not rewrite the attacks they've been preparing for the past 6 months.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 25/09/2026
It truly is amazing how often Kettle, Rivera, Saka, and Juarez just make things up and rant about what's happening in their own imaginations.
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...
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Bad apples? Seattle Police 'not a healthy tree' says city council member
Chants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council.
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 23/09/2026
Who is Nilu’s opponent supported by Nelson? Have i got the theead for you bsky.app/profile/anal...
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23/09/2026
A fatal crash killed a motorcyclist over the weekend on N Ash. So today, Spokane’s traffic crews deployed its first “Emergency Streets” installation—rapid traffic calming to slow drivers, close a lane, and evaluate whether street design played a role. More info: my.spokanecity.org/news/release...
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would be surprised if there was a single no vote.
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wilson's budget has me thinking about how Mayor Harrell wasted ~500k that CM Morales earmarked to do safety projects on LWB doing outreach, and then got a million+ $ grant from the state for the LWB safety project that had to be returned when he only let SDOT do a quarter of the project.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 22/09/2026
That last SPOG contract Bruce Harrell negotiated was a doozy
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Sam @sluikens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@centralseattlestreetsforall.org has been out talking with neighbors about an exciting opportunity to pedestrianize Barbara Bailey Way. Let’s be sure to show up this Sunday and express that! Put it in your phone calendar or, if you’re a wall calendar girlie like me, mark it for Sunday Sept 27 1-4 pm
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 22/09/2026
I got in for the Seattle tour on Sunday! Anyone else going to be there 5-5:30?
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SDOT has great folks but there are a lot of SDOT employees who, frankly, need to feel less settled. The Harrell permission structure shouldn't stay in place for the entire Wilson administration.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 22/09/2026
For a second I wondered why there's a Japanese flag sign at 23rd & John and then I remembered it's the no turn on red sign 🇯🇵
Zoomed in photo that appears to show a Japanese flag sign in the background, partially obstructed by a tree branch and framed in the foreground by a bus shelter.Second picture taken from closer to the sign. Unobstructed, it reads "No Turn on Red 🔴"
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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TIL that those Amazon soft crates that they leave everywhere fit on the Bullitt platform perfectly
A blue amazon soft parcel crate sitting on the front of a Bullitt cargobike, shown from sideA blue amazon soft parcel crate sitting on the front of a Bullitt cargobike , shown from front
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SDOT is a car first department, not a safety first one exhibit nr. 53,890
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Launching a national search for a new permanent SDOT Director is an easy win that @mayor.seattle.gov can take and I don’t understand why she isn’t doing it right now.
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wonder who was President of the Seattle City Council when downtown Seattle lost 13,000 jobs in 2025.
Screen shot of Sara Nelson’s new website saying downtown Seattle lost 13k jobs in 2025. Sara Nelson was the President of the City Council in 2025.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 22/09/2026
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?
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 21/09/2026
I continue to believe that a bike lane is only "protected" if it has steel beams anchored into concrete to keep drivers out.
"Protected" bike lane on Airport Way S at S Lucille Street fully blocked by the concrete barrier intended to protect it. Presumably knocked out of place by an errant driver.
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Hop On Board Seattle @hoponboardseattle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Seattle Transit Measure is on your November ballot, and nearly 70% goes straight to bus service. More buses, more often, more reliable. Vote YES!
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Rainier Valley Safe Streets @rvgreenways.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another day, another car crash onto the light rail on MLK Jr Way S.
1 Ln trains are experiencing delays until further notice due to track blocked bwtn Othello & Rainier https://SoundTransit.org/alert/st/20833


1 Line is suspended from Othello Sta to Rainier Beach Sta until further notice due to track blockage https://SoundTransit.org/alert/st/20835


Update: 1 Ln is suspended from Othello Sta to Rainier Beach Sta until further notice. Currently tow truck on scen https://SoundTransit.org/alert/st/20835
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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SDOT will say they can’t do 10ft car lanes on 25mph arterials and yet the Aurora Bridge exists.
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just thinking about these two unrelated things happening in Seattle right now.
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Stubborn street paint keeps part of Ninth Avenue closed
A downtown Seattle block remains shut as crews struggle to remove markings left from an August event.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A good illustration why Seattle, which is often compared with Vancouver, often can’t/won’t accomplish better things in city-building. In this case, a far too powerful “landmarks board” that shouldn’t be able to veto badly needed #VisionZero public safety street design improvements.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Washington GOP really gave Andrea Suarez the "Kemper Freeman Courage Award" this weekend, how is that real
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’d encourage you to to continue to go, but just complain to every shop you visit — a lot of this seems to be driven by anecdotes
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s remarkable how immediately after cars are allowed back in Pike Place at 4 PM everyday lost tourists drive in and degrade the experience for everyone else. I saw three California plates on my walk from end to end
Car with California plates
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 18/09/2026
*stares in downtown bike network routing*
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hardened daylighting is like a parking enforcement officer you don't have to pay.
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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
sooooo.... if someone paints colorful circles on a street using some secret method to make them impossible to remove, the street has to become a pedestrian street? That's what I'm hearing here. Does anyone knows the method used and wants to spill details...? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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35 circles and 5 thick white lines are painted on this downtown street. It won’t come off
A block of Ninth Avenue can’t reopen until the colorful design is gone. The center has tried graffiti remover and pressure washers, but the work is ongoing.
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Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 17/09/2026
NEW AMTRAK CASCADES TRAINS START SEPTEMBER 30. You can experience the new Amtrak Cascades trains beginning September 30. Four daily trains will be operating as new trainsets. Trains 503, 508, [SEA-EUG] 516 and 519 [SEA-VAC]. See the schedule at AmtrakCascades.com. Read more at: media.amtrak.com/
A new Amtrak Cascades train cruises up the tracks in style south of Tukwila with Mt. Rainier rising majestically in the background under a light blue sky with trees fringing the photo. The new train sports evergreen, mocha and cream colors with gold nugget accents. There are two headlights on below the windshield of the train.
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 18/09/2026
I will never understand the people who get into these situations and think, "Yes, I should just keep going!"
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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the triumvirate (2026)
a woman stands with hands on her hips after driving a red SUV up train tracks into Seattle's Mt Baker light rail stationa white sedan drives on Seattle's I-90 pedestrian trail as a woman in a green shirt walks in front of ita black SUV stopped after driving down a flight of stairs at Seattle's Post Alley
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
her facial expression at 0:57 😂 "i want to note that just while we've been in this meeting a car has driven down Post Alley and is now stuck on the Harbor Steps" 😂😂😂
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 18/09/2026
Work took us to the Museum of Flight but really the highlight was seeing the Metro Safety and Training Center on the way back. 
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Transportation Committee votes on amendments tomorrow at 9:30AM! Come make your voice heard!
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