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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1h

As a recreational cyclist, I got pretty excited when I realized that ebikes basically eliminate the "Ugh, I can't ride up hills!" barrier for casual/starting commuter cyclists. In many areas, it's one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1h

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

danielknowles.substack.com

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 22h

“Healthy Street Ends” is such a confession about American transportation

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 1d

Quite the embarrassment for SPD, as this suggests they haven't previously been reviewing officers' history before promoting them, which should be a fundamental part of the promotion process.

jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Not much of a pledge but ok

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good thing no one was walking on the pedestrian path when this happened as there's no protection between the road and the path. We can't rely on luck for the next incident though. We need to make changes to this road to address dangerous driver behavior before someone dies.

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

A question about the freakout over nudity at Denny Blaine Park and the city's decisions to delay a Nickelsville encampment in Southeast Seattle. Harrell starts by saying "You have no idea how rough it was for me growing up!"

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Laura Loe @lauraloeseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Use a drop box!

USPS rule changes may complicate mail-in voting, risking late ballots in November election

Ballots go out starting next week for the November general election but people who mail them back through the United States Postal Service (USPS) could risk not

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

Just got an email from a group that supports Bruce Harrell containing a message from the mayor. In it, he claims his frontrunning opponent Katie Wilson, who supports hiring police, is "a strong supporter of 50% reductions of– or even eliminating– law enforcement budgets." This is not true.

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 1d

If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 1d

My criticism here is that he's saying that people want change when he is the incumbent candidate and has been setting city policy for nearly two decades. He is not the candidate of change.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

WIlson cites my reporting on Mike Tietjen, saying maybe Harrell should pay more attention to what the police chief is doing. publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

publicola.com

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 2d

If, like me, you thought the existing cavernous Westlake Station was the one in the middle left with the tunnel connecting to the new line on the right, well, you're wrong.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

I just can't get over the differences in scale between Ballard Link's Westlake Station as proposed and the original Westlake Station, off to the left.

Ballard Link's Westlake has two separate entrances underneath separate buildings, with one showing a long tunnel to get to the train guideway. They are at least five stories deeper than the original Westlake, which is tiny and only around 10-15% of the size

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

!!! Speaking of bizarre, hard to understand statements!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell’s boy’s club:

www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

WTF? Her answer was clear and cogent. This is just like his snide comment to Gonzales about stringing words togethertogether.

Perhaps if he listened to these brilliant women he’d know what they were saying.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell says "I don't even understand that answer. Am I the only one? Some people are clapping, some are shouting "I do!" He says his kids support it. "It's my job to make sure I listen to the students." He's yelling. "An executive has to be clear!" He calls Wilson "disingenuous" and "inauthentic."

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 2d

…If that’s the strategy why did Harrell’s Comp Plan only allow corner stores on literal corners!? We had to do a whole advocacy campaign to fix that…

actionnetwork.org/letters/lega...

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 2d

Bruce Harrell continues to make the case for voting himself out. He's been in elected office in Seattle for nearly 20 years!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Why are you the underdog in this race, Balter asks. "We have a maniac as president," Harrell says, and "we should rightly want change."

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 3d

SDOT was shockingly dismissive of people biking on Rainier when the bus lane was first painted. @seattlebikeblog.com covered it here. The response Tom breaks down here is a mulligan after they first falsely claimed biking in the bus lane is illegal.

Fact-checking SDOT’s excuses for not making Rainier Ave safer

The good news is that SDOT is redesigning one of the worst stretches of roadway in the city: Rainier Avenue S between Columbia City and I-90. The bad news is that their design still prioritizes ca…

www.seattlebikeblog.com

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 3d

Is it really so hard for luggage manufacturers to design carry on bags that aren't larger than the carry on size than airlines allow? They seem to be obsessed with going 1" larger in every dimension.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 4d

Listen: it's really important that all of our transit tax money gets spent on high capacity rail to Paine Field and Issaquah and is *not* spent on frivolous nonsense like getting people around the city.

The Needling @theneedling.com · 4d

Capitol Hill Commuters Hold Séance to Summon Next Bus: tinyurl.com/2s39kexw

Three people holding hands over table with candles and orca cards next to pentagram on ground beneath bus stop sign

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

The one big donation to Wilson's PAC so far is $75,000 from PROTEC17, the union that represents city employees. As Harrell likes to mention on the campaign trail as an example of his management experience, most city employees ultimately answer to him, and they're backing his opponent.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, a career politician and beneficiary of $1.3 million in business PAC funding SO FAR, is trying to portray himself as the victim of his underdog opponent, Katie Wilson, and her progressive supporters.

Outside groups are spending to try to take down Bruce's re-election campaign.

Just this week, a political action committee backing Bruce’s opponent dropped another $75,000 into the race, bringing their total to nearly $200,000. And more money is waiting in the wings.

Let’s be clear: this money will almost certainly be used to attack Bruce, twisting his record and misleading voters about the real progress Seattle has made under his leadership.

Bruce has worked tirelessly to make Seattle more safe, more affordable, and more compassionate. He focuses on results, not grandstanding. But his opponents are gearing up to flood the airwaves and social media with negativity.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 3d

Nice to see those management skills that @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Bruce Harrell is so proud of paying off.

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 4d

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct
Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, the subject of multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.
publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 3d

"City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth, who represents Capitol Hill and the rest of District 3, did not respond to a request for comment."

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 4d

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct
Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, the subject of multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.
publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 3d

Read about this utter management Charlie Foxtrot by Bruce Harrell, and then try to tell me with a straight face that you are Concerned About Katie Wilson’s Management Skills.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d

What the records show:
-Major elements of the LWB redesign, like the changes at Orcas Street, nearly went out for construction before being killed by the Mayor's Office
-Parks staff were continuing to negotiate over individual elements of the project as late as early June.

Drawing showing the changes planned for S Orcas Street and LWB

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Harrell, in contrast, said it was irresponsible for the media to ask about allegations that he brandished a gun at a pregnant woman who took "his" parking spot at a casino when he was a 38-year-old lawyer, because it forced him to relive his trauma from supposed racial profiling by the casino

Woman says she was 8 months pregnant when Seattle Mayor Harrell pulled gun on her, leading to his 1996 arrest

Rose Sanchez may not remember every detail of the encounter between her family and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell from that late night in 1996. But there are details she told KUOW she’ll never forget, li...

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