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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1h

Just send in a report on Find It Fix It that rogue urbanists shoved it into the car lanes and now it’s blocking traffic. They’ll rush out there and see that wasn’t true but they’ll be there so it’ll get fixed finally

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1h

That tells me an agency absolutely does not want it built. Same agency designed, permitted and retrofitted the cracked west seattle bridge in 22 months

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1h

If it takes until 2032 to electrify the Route 48, that will be a full 18 years since SDOT completed its electrification study on the route. #climateleader

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1h

The perception is wind and water flowed south so wealthier folks wanted to live up river and away from industrial winds and pollution in the water flowing south. Its why every major city in the US the south end is where we redlined the black and poor community to live

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1h

Rivers flow south

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 11h

I had an idea. Someone should lie and say its in the vehicle lane and causing traffic. They’ll rush out there and then realize it’s not the case but who cares they’ll be there and just fix it

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 11h

Try that on Find It Fix It. Say you’re a driver who tried to use the lane but this blocked it

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no someone alert Tree Action Seattle

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 12h

I think so. It’s meant to cave into a cyclist so they don’t damage the car too much

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine if this got knocked into the vehicle lane. My guess is it would be fixed in 2 hours

Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 16h

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 18h

But what if we need to drive a semi sized fire truck through?

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21h

On streets like Summit Avenue on Capitol Hill, we should be de-paving the curb zone to plant trees.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 21h

If you want to make real change to cities you have to join boards like these because it’s where city leaders displace all decision making to

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22h

Are you an architect? Would you like to pedestrianize Ballard Avenue? Mayor Harrell is seeking a new member to serve on the Ballard Avenue Landmark District Board in the Architect position.

Mayor Harrell seeks member for Ballard Avenue Landmark District Board, Architect representative - Front Porch

Mayor Bruce Harrell seeks a new member to serve on the Ballard Avenue Landmark District Board in the Architect position. The Ballard Avenue Landmark District Board reviews and makes recommendations to...

frontporch.seattle.gov

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 21h

More than anything, the corridor urbanism is peddled by planners who would never ever ever live on a corridor like that because they know it sucks. Real estate agents always tell you “this is a busy road you don’t want to live here” but planners whitewash it as “access to transit”

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22h

"Corridor Urbanism" marketing v. reality.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22h

"Corridor Urbanism" marketing v. reality.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

The industry pressuring people into forfeiting their entire personal lives to perform unpaid work like that is a huge problem in the design profession. You can do a nice park like Gas Works without killing yourself

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

I firmly believe trump didn’t send troops to seattle because this facility is in Tacoma and someone probably told him that’s where more of his voters live

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

This is what happens when you task “downtown activation” without the willingness to fix US city planning problems

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

This is everything wrong with city government in a nutshell. Just so blinded by the solutions to real problems and distracted by silly gimmicks assuming we need to rethink the wheel. We need housing, places for recreation, places without cars, transit. We don’t need 10’ ai walls

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah this looks completely terrible. It’s because they draw in silence. They don’t even think about noise

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

Whats funny is this is what the Champs Elysees is and their mayor thinks it sucks so they’re pulling the cars off it

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

Planning is so delusional. Nobody wants to live on this road. Why? Because of the noise, pollution and danger of those cars. People want to live away from corridors unless you repurpose them to be less car centric

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Nov 20

i'm sorry but this is not a future that prioritizes affordable housing and climate - it's a future that prioritizes cars

look at all those paved surfaces. want to cross the street to get to a restaurant? hold on we've got an 8-lane stroad for you to cross.

connectcascadia.com/wp-content/u...

'grand boulevard' from the cascadia innovation report - showing midrise buildings adjacent a massive road w/ 6 car lanes, plus 2-lanes of transit in the middle of the road.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

In fact, even at the higher costs right now BLE is actually the cheapest cost per rider of any of the new lines and extensions

But the important people don’t live in Ballard, they live in WS

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

How many riders will hop on the WSLE? Because BLE it’s 175,000

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

This was said by a city planner Lawrence Veiller. It’s not quiet at all. He suggested adding costs through codes would force builders to build single family homes instead of infill density.

Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 29d

Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today

Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration

From Stuck: "If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even when there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things," then, he continued, each of the rules could stand up in court, "and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment homes."

From Stuck: But although some champions of tenement reform were earnest in their efforts, no one who had paid the slightest attention to the movement could have any doubt as to the actual aims of many reformers. The influx of immigrants to New York City was the problem; eliminating affordable housing was the solution.

From Stuck: Veiller, instead, did everything in his power to make housing more expensive. Immigrants continued to pour into the city in the years immediately after the passage of the Tenement Act, but newly constructed tenements became increasingly unaffordable. The cost of making the improvements to old-law tenements mandated by the law, and increasing competition for the remaining affordable units, combined to drive up prices, setting off rent strikes in 1904 and 1907. "The fact is that the new-law tenements ... are beyond the reach of unskilled wage earners," one reformer complained in 1919.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

Oh yeah Lawrence Veiller. A planner. Not surprised this was the root of it all. Then they made sure planners like him taught the academic courses.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

It’s like the frantic teenager who has to clean their room to go do something they want to do. Just sweeping everything under the bed and into the closet. Planners think housing is a mess they want to shove away

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