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@bvd100.bsky.social
Natural resource econ, outdoor recreation, conservation by day. Urbanism, Zags, Seattle things the rest of the time. Personal account, views my own.
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@bvd100.bsky.social
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Peak Lake Washington Blvd experience this afternoon.
Kids laughing, strollers everywhere, running into friends. This is Seattle at its very best.
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Kids laughing, strollers everywhere, running into friends. This is Seattle at its very best.
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This whole article is great but I especially love this: “a lot of people on the progressive left do have a sophisticated understanding of what it’s going to take to deliver on a bold progressive agenda…it’s not just about only talking to your friends and using the mayor’s office as a soapbox.”
Seattle’s next mayor is willing to meet with anyone, including Trump
Katie Wilson wants a mayor's office that reaches out proactively, that has open lines to grassroots organizations and that builds political support from the ground up.
www.seattletimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This whole article is great but I especially love this: “a lot of people on the progressive left do have a sophisticated understanding of what it’s going to take to deliver on a bold progressive agenda…it’s not just about only talking to your friends and using the mayor’s office as a soapbox.”
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I really hope we reimagine MLK jr way S for all the people that live on the street. Our transit boulevard should live up to its billing.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I really hope we reimagine MLK jr way S for all the people that live on the street. Our transit boulevard should live up to its billing.
The only way we fix this is if @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social hires an SDOT director who will personally go to WSDOT and tell them to get lost when they hawk trash analysis like this.
Great example for why @sngreenways.bsky.social’s suggestion for a Rainier Ave Special Project team is so important.
Great example for why @sngreenways.bsky.social’s suggestion for a Rainier Ave Special Project team is so important.
Why are we assuming that we want to maintain car volumes? To meet our climate, public health and road safety goals as a city, there is no reason any on or off ramp in #Seattle should require multiple lanes. #Rainier
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
Judkins Park Community Advisory Group Meeting 4
YouTube video by wsdot
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The only way we fix this is if @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social hires an SDOT director who will personally go to WSDOT and tell them to get lost when they hawk trash analysis like this.
Great example for why @sngreenways.bsky.social’s suggestion for a Rainier Ave Special Project team is so important.
Great example for why @sngreenways.bsky.social’s suggestion for a Rainier Ave Special Project team is so important.
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Why are we assuming that we want to maintain car volumes? To meet our climate, public health and road safety goals as a city, there is no reason any on or off ramp in #Seattle should require multiple lanes. #Rainier
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
Judkins Park Community Advisory Group Meeting 4
YouTube video by wsdot
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Why are we assuming that we want to maintain car volumes? To meet our climate, public health and road safety goals as a city, there is no reason any on or off ramp in #Seattle should require multiple lanes. #Rainier
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
If you want to be angry, watch (starts at 1:05): youtu.be/Lr-C4k0EEf4?...
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Also NONE of this will work (or is working) for transit riders traveling north bound on Rainier without dedicated bus-only lanes south of Massachusetts. In these designs, and in the current situation, the bus gets stuck behind cars queuing in the right lane to get on I-90.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Also NONE of this will work (or is working) for transit riders traveling north bound on Rainier without dedicated bus-only lanes south of Massachusetts. In these designs, and in the current situation, the bus gets stuck behind cars queuing in the right lane to get on I-90.
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Why are we starting with the assumption that we should plan for traffic volumes that are the same as current volumes? Traffic responds to induced demand. If it's easier, faster and cheaper to drive, more people will drive. The opposite is also true. If we want more people to ride transit, we...
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Why are we starting with the assumption that we should plan for traffic volumes that are the same as current volumes? Traffic responds to induced demand. If it's easier, faster and cheaper to drive, more people will drive. The opposite is also true. If we want more people to ride transit, we...
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Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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Don’t know if I’ve seen this yet but, new tuff posts delineating the NB bus lane on 1st Ave N in front of KEXP looking really good! Hope they help at least a little.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don’t know if I’ve seen this yet but, new tuff posts delineating the NB bus lane on 1st Ave N in front of KEXP looking really good! Hope they help at least a little.
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Next question is from @jzimbabwe.bsky.social: what can we do to get this built faster.
In a fairly telling moment, the ST team tried to get Kirk to answer that, and then gave kind of a non-answer.
In a fairly telling moment, the ST team tried to get Kirk to answer that, and then gave kind of a non-answer.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Next question is from @jzimbabwe.bsky.social: what can we do to get this built faster.
In a fairly telling moment, the ST team tried to get Kirk to answer that, and then gave kind of a non-answer.
In a fairly telling moment, the ST team tried to get Kirk to answer that, and then gave kind of a non-answer.
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Now ST staff are explaining to the crowd about how cutting Avalon Station won't have any impact on transit ridership in West Seattle. Ok.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Now ST staff are explaining to the crowd about how cutting Avalon Station won't have any impact on transit ridership in West Seattle. Ok.
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Living in the US in 2025: The government that hates green tech says your e-bike battery might explode if it gets wet, but the company says, nuh uh, only if it gets REALLY wet. And now you, a person who needs their e-bike and also doesn't want their house to burn down, has to figure out what to do.
Not trying to stan Rad here, but should we be a little skeptical of a CPSC that was gutted this year by an administration that hates green tech?
www.13abc.com/2025/05/14/d...
www.13abc.com/2025/05/14/d...
DOGE dismantles Consumer Product Safety Commission
When a product turns out to be dangerous, or even deadly, it’s recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
It’s a watchdog group that’s now being dismantled by DOGE.
www.13abc.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Living in the US in 2025: The government that hates green tech says your e-bike battery might explode if it gets wet, but the company says, nuh uh, only if it gets REALLY wet. And now you, a person who needs their e-bike and also doesn't want their house to burn down, has to figure out what to do.
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Looks like we're in the worst year in since 2015.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Looks like we're in the worst year in since 2015.
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Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
Economics Job Market Update: November 2025 - A Historic Low
paulgp.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
Well, RIP Rad Power Bikes
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Well, RIP Rad Power Bikes
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The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers.
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Strauss really should be the next council president.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Strauss really should be the next council president.
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As we talk about the next administration, I think this passage from @seattlebikeblog.com superbly articulates the stakes, opportunity and impact.
![Summary of pictured text:
vanished for the SDOT team working on the bike lane. They suddenly had access to a full-time project designer, and their calls to all the other teams within SDOT became priority calls. The mayor wanted this done in just five months, so every team at SDOT needed to work together to make it happen. "You need to have a director who gets it. You need a [city] council that gets it. You need a mayor that gets it," said Sam Woods, head of SDOT's Bicycle Program at the time, in an interview for this book. "Mayor Murray did more for biking in Seattle than any other mayor," she said.
... Woods was having a hard time figuring out if SDOT would be able to install bicycle traffic signals along with the new bike lane. ... it was important that people in cars trying to turn left would have a red light when the bike lane had a green light. But it wasn't clear whether the existing traffic signal system had the capacity to add a new set of signals. ... Woods's first couple of tries to get an answer from the sig-nals team didn't result in a clear answer. But when SDOT Director Scott Kubly called with Woods on the line, the signals team said they could make it happen. "You have to have, at the director level, that kind of support," said Woods. "Because that person was willing to jump through hoops for him, but not for me." People in any organization are going to answer more quickly to their boss than to someone else. "When you get that direction from the top, people fall in line."
It's hard to fully explain what it's like to ride in this new bike lane that was so transformational to Seattle. ... But in a video I shot on the new bike lane's opening day in September 2014, the street looked like it was from a different universe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udp5knsxol66kisgtzpll3ju/bafkreidicziisihrshdeuwtt7d3dujktqadutp5ou233h2t4vbvb7ukpj4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As we talk about the next administration, I think this passage from @seattlebikeblog.com superbly articulates the stakes, opportunity and impact.
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Bitch what the fuck?!
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bitch what the fuck?!
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You can’t talk about affordability & cost of living without talking about the obscene cost of housing, which is driven by a massive shortage of homes. We’re working hard to make it easier & faster to build more homes in California. We need to take that work national …
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You can’t talk about affordability & cost of living without talking about the obscene cost of housing, which is driven by a massive shortage of homes. We’re working hard to make it easier & faster to build more homes in California. We need to take that work national …
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Interesting discussion of how businesses set their prices. What's missing is noteworthy, too. Maybe inflation expectations aren't everything? libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/11/how-...
How Businesses Set Prices—In Their Own Words - Liberty Street Economics
A look at the factors that businesses consider when adjusting their prices in response to various shocks.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interesting discussion of how businesses set their prices. What's missing is noteworthy, too. Maybe inflation expectations aren't everything? libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/11/how-...
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it's interesting that Seattle's got its own version of "who was president in 2020" now
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
it's interesting that Seattle's got its own version of "who was president in 2020" now
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How can @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social hit the ground running to deliver on her transportation platform? We offer some ideas about her
🏥 Safety and Vision Zero
🧑🦽Sidewalks and accessibility
🚴🏾♀️ Bike routes
🪑 Places for people
🌎 Climate
and
🏘️ 15-Minute City,
priorities in @theurbanist.org today 👀
🏥 Safety and Vision Zero
🧑🦽Sidewalks and accessibility
🚴🏾♀️ Bike routes
🪑 Places for people
🌎 Climate
and
🏘️ 15-Minute City,
priorities in @theurbanist.org today 👀
How Mayor-elect Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking » The Urbanist
# Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson’s transportation platform is bold and visionary, and she will need ongoing community support to achieve it. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways shares some ideas on how s...
www.theurbanist.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
How can @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social hit the ground running to deliver on her transportation platform? We offer some ideas about her
🏥 Safety and Vision Zero
🧑🦽Sidewalks and accessibility
🚴🏾♀️ Bike routes
🪑 Places for people
🌎 Climate
and
🏘️ 15-Minute City,
priorities in @theurbanist.org today 👀
🏥 Safety and Vision Zero
🧑🦽Sidewalks and accessibility
🚴🏾♀️ Bike routes
🪑 Places for people
🌎 Climate
and
🏘️ 15-Minute City,
priorities in @theurbanist.org today 👀
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Hard agree. This project is everything. It’s about reversing historic inequities, saving lives and creating opportunities for more people to walk, bike and take transit. The entire time I’ve been writing this blog, people have been begging the city to improve this street. Time to actually do it.
Beautiful. No notes. Get it done.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hard agree. This project is everything. It’s about reversing historic inequities, saving lives and creating opportunities for more people to walk, bike and take transit. The entire time I’ve been writing this blog, people have been begging the city to improve this street. Time to actually do it.
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Beautiful. No notes. Get it done.
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Beautiful. No notes. Get it done.
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NEW // How Mayor-elect Katie Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking 🏃♀️🚶♂️👩🦽🚴♀️🚌
Op-ed by @sngreenways.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/23/h...
Op-ed by @sngreenways.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/23/h...
How Mayor-elect Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking » The Urbanist
# Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson’s transportation platform is bold and visionary, and she will need ongoing community support to achieve it. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways shares some ideas on how s...
www.theurbanist.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
NEW // How Mayor-elect Katie Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking 🏃♀️🚶♂️👩🦽🚴♀️🚌
Op-ed by @sngreenways.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/23/h...
Op-ed by @sngreenways.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/23/h...