Reposted by Lucas J SmithKenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Major gotcha moment from the NBC Los Angeles mayoral debate: Mayor Bass says many supporters of Nithya Raman's campaign are advocates for bike lanes!! Duh!! Of course! Bike lanes save lives! 🚲🌴 4052366 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026An excellent example of the windshield perspective and car brain and, to put it even more plainly, the utter selfishness of drivers. 1739 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithFondor Haulcraft @dayuan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Saw a photo of a BART operator from the 70s and incredible energy 221365233 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The combination of "everyone has to be in a car all the time" and "everyone is now performing for a camera and creating content all the time" is a bad combination and not a sign of a healthy society. 132827 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Happy second birthday to the Overlook Walk, a piece of infrastructure that I can't imagine Seattle without at this point. 1047442 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithErica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There are numerous elevators 451334241 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seattleites are most concerned about traffic safety because we all experience it regularly: narrowly missing getting hit while walking in a crosswalk, seeing people using center turn lanes as their personal speedway, etc. Most people also know someone who has died or been seriously injured: 118448 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very very good. This is life after cars. 027031 0
Lucas J Smith @lucas.bike · 27/09/2026Completely clueless to suggest access to Longacres is in any way comparable to Lumen Field. Just another reason a Renton stadium would be a complete travesty, and if Adrian Hanauer can't grasp that he needs to be gone yesterday. Sell the team. 000 0
Reposted by Lucas J Smithnever linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026kinda wild that we as a society decided to designate the left lane as the crime lane where ppl get mad at you for following the law 313617 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8360661070 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Reminds me of this @theonion.com classic.theonion.comMillions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental CatastrophePORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfu... 0362 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.nypost.comExclusive | Hipster NYC neighborhoods to get gentrified transit makeover at cost of seniors: ‘Feels like Nazi Germany’“It’s like people of a certain age are no longer welcome in Brooklyn.” 1568367 0
Reposted by Lucas J Smithg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149613447 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithJason @jrock08.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I felt so strongly about this nextdoor comment that I decided to do a dramatic reading of it. I hope you'll listen with the volume on to fully appreciate the quiet reverie. 915333 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithSeattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 15/09/2026Nobody thinks grocery stores want to use algorithmic pricing to make your groceries cheaper, right? Surely zero people are buying their pitch on this. 51219 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries. 6485166 0
Lucas J Smith @lucas.bike · 14/09/2026They'd simply need to cede one golf cart width lane in *literally the world's second largest* parking garage; the walkway they sacrifice instead is much closer to the world's smallest airport passageway to a major city rail link. 000 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithOlraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ummm... how did this car get onto the I90 multi use path? Video from a user in the Seattle Cyclist Discord. 3435272 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bike share should be a public service and not a for-profit enterprise. The politics surrounding bikes were very different when Citi Bike launched in 2013 and I get why it had to be done without taxpayer dollars, but we've come a long way since then. 531139 0
Lucas J Smith @lucas.bike · 07/09/2026I passed through (on bike) 20 intersections in downtown Seattle this evening. At 9 of them, a driver deliberately violated a red light. 000 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173804943 0
Reposted by Lucas J Smithprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026shame, SHAME on USC admin "USC also argued that the NLRB’s own structure is unconstitutional ... [mirroring arguments] made by Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX in their labor cases" 14413 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026You would blush to offer this as parody. This is a *public health professor*. 1880183 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithSeattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 01/09/2026Chekhov's rental SUV. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov... Oh, even better: Hitchcock's rental SUV. nofilmschool.com/alfred-hitch... The SUV crawling down Pike Place exhilarates market-goers not because it IS killing people but because it COULD kill people at any moment. Basic theater stuff. 0213 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/08/2026The article mentions the area was once home to dozens of strawberry farms owned by Japanese immigrant families who were dispossessed of their land during their WWII internment. It fails to mention that Freeman's grandfather founded the Anti-Japanese League that advocated for internment. Weird.seattletimes.comBellevue's retail core is for sale after 80 years of family ownershipA whopper is hitting the real estate market: The Bellevue Collection, a 5.5 million-square-foot mixed-use complex in downtown Bellevue. 12341124 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDefector @defector.com · 30/08/2026Every right on red frays the social contract a little further: defector.com/every-right-...defector.comEvery Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | DefectorA couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI-generated; a… 2447 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Individuals should wear bike helmets while riding in most US cities but elected officials and those with the power to change systems shouldn't spend much time promoting them" — the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate, 318827 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithTom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Fairfield, CT has found that ***70%*** of the citations issued by its cameras are to drivers who live outside of town. Personally, I’d be pissed if that many visitors were driving dangerously near my town’s schools! 31066 0
Reposted by Lucas J Smithamb @amb.fyi · 21/08/2026in the absence of a green new deal, libraries and public transit are going to be america's de facto cooling centers, keeping large number of people alive during climate disasters for the indefinite future 332386 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithJason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem: 691417405 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithJason @jrock08.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I hope that we'll see transportation advocacy orgs represented in this search committee. The top public safety concern for a number of years from Seattle residents is dangerous driving. A new police chief should be able to engage with that reality. 58417 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It's not just advocates who say this. Researchers, studies, and data say it. That's why advocates say it. Reporters can just say it, too!theguardian.comUS push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates sayTrump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets 1127367 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/07/2026Sometimes I think it’s too reductive to say that a car is a uniquely deranging object to own, but then I see people who claim left politics compare the people trying to turn a carpark into a children’s home to Netanyahu and I think “no, the car has made you crazy” 1587394 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithCouncilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 26/07/2026Are they going to live in the streets and our parks or are we going to make it possible to build enough housing for everyone? Gregg Colburn does a great job of describing housing like a game of musical chairs. When there aren’t enough chairs, the most vulnerable gets left behind. 1173 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithCouncilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 26/07/2026Our City and region are going to continue to grow in population. We can’t stop that even if we wanted to (and that’s not what I want). So where are people going to live? Are they going to live in the City or are we going to cut down more forests and farmland to build suburban housing? 13811 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026America needs more mayors who unapologetically love cities: “Cities are humanity’s greatest invention. Where opportunity, creativity, culture and democracy come together. Cities are where people who are different from one another learn how to live together. Cities are where innovation happens” 0211 0
Lucas J Smith @lucas.bike · 20/07/2026How refreshing it is to have a city mayor that actually likes cities! The things that made life in Seattle extra great during the world cup–the gatherings, the pedestrian streets, simply having *more people in our beautiful places* can make life better every day if we do them 070 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Next time, host the final in America’s best soccer city 221326 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026To quote @thewaroncars.bsky.social: 335455 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithJason @jrock08.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Which do we want for our public streets? Storage for cars or spaces for people. 1393 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The project on the left is completely through environmental review and is approved to move into construction and the project on the right needs more environmental analysis, everything is working great. 13514101 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“I-5 traffic will be bad with construction, but how many drivers actually have current tabs” Strange how there’s a totally different angle depending on the g mode of travel 0291 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026When are we going to see news articles about scofflaw drivers not renewing their tags, and the lax enforcement? 1118537 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithDread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We shouldn't dismiss & should try to resolve these issues. However, discourse around this ignores the needs of disabled cyclists (of whom there are many) & that risk to all & disproportionate risk to disabled people from motor vehicles is never adequate reason to pause motor vehicle infrastructure. 0175 0
Reposted by Lucas J SmithWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Good morning, new from me in @prospect.org: the defense contractor that runs transit systems across the country signed a contract with Palantir a few months back. I wrote about it, and about how nobody wants to spell out what information the systems are collecting on riders or how the data is used.prospect.orgTech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear - The American ProspectTransit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir. 28959 0
