Jeremy Cole
@jeremycole.bsky.social
he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
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Jeremy Cole
@jeremycole.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Reflections on a year of biking for 2024
Everywhere I’ve ridden my bike in the PNW in 2024. Since shortly after moving to Seattle in July 2022, I have not driven a car. I’ve gotten around by bike and public transit. During 202…
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I wrote up a (lengthy) summary of my biking in 2024, a total of 7,880 miles. Of that, about 2,770 was on e-bikes, mostly towing trailers doing volunteer work. The remaining 5,110 almost entirely on my Specialized Diverge (a few on other non-e-bikes), mainly exploring.
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New spreadsheet created: Bike Events 2026. Let's hear it. What should be on it?
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
New spreadsheet created: Bike Events 2026. Let's hear it. What should be on it?
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What actually needs to happen is a complete departure from the concept of LOS to modeling things like accessibility and safety.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What actually needs to happen is a complete departure from the concept of LOS to modeling things like accessibility and safety.
Why is every video these days either 30 second reels or 30+ minute full commitments? Have we lost the ability to make short form 3-10 minute informative videos?
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Why is every video these days either 30 second reels or 30+ minute full commitments? Have we lost the ability to make short form 3-10 minute informative videos?
We’ll take BC in Free Cascadia if Canada doesn’t want her
It’s amazing how much BC is being pushed to the fringes right now. The Carney gov’t has been negotiating with Alberta & Sask on pipelines, without BC. All while Saskatchewan’s potash monopolist chooses the US over BC. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Saskatchewan firm's plan to export through Washington state instead of B.C. has David Eby fuming
Vaughn Palmer: Nutrien Ltd. says Longview, Washington, makes more sense than B.C. ports for a host of cost reasons
vancouversun.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
We’ll take BC in Free Cascadia if Canada doesn’t want her
What you think @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social ?!
Hot take: Fremont Bridge should be closed to cars and open only for bikes and pedestrians. For cars it's mostly redundant with Aurora Bridge and we're never going to build a new bridge (with the required ability to open, especially) for non-cars. As a historic bridge it'll last a lot longer, too.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What you think @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social ?!
This irritation brought to you by: figuring out how to safely get a large-ish group ride across the bridge... which should be easy, but most definitely is not.
Imagine restructuring the Burke-Gilman, Ship Canal, and Cheshiahud Loop trails around first class access across the Fremont Bridge (instead of the current bullshit), and opening true pedestrianization opportunities on the N and S side of the bridge with great interconnected walkability.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This irritation brought to you by: figuring out how to safely get a large-ish group ride across the bridge... which should be easy, but most definitely is not.
Hot take: Fremont Bridge should be closed to cars and open only for bikes and pedestrians. For cars it's mostly redundant with Aurora Bridge and we're never going to build a new bridge (with the required ability to open, especially) for non-cars. As a historic bridge it'll last a lot longer, too.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hot take: Fremont Bridge should be closed to cars and open only for bikes and pedestrians. For cars it's mostly redundant with Aurora Bridge and we're never going to build a new bridge (with the required ability to open, especially) for non-cars. As a historic bridge it'll last a lot longer, too.
This applies to friends and family members. Try telling someone you love that they're speeding, sometime.
This is imho a key American social defect. Drivers just cannot take being told or implied that they did something wrong, even when they very clearly, objectively, did. I have no idea how to fix that but it’s something. It’s also the root of a lot of road rage.
Drivers get unbelievably defensive when you point out unsafe driving. The mental gymnastics are something else.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This applies to friends and family members. Try telling someone you love that they're speeding, sometime.
This is imho a key American social defect. Drivers just cannot take being told or implied that they did something wrong, even when they very clearly, objectively, did. I have no idea how to fix that but it’s something. It’s also the root of a lot of road rage.
Drivers get unbelievably defensive when you point out unsafe driving. The mental gymnastics are something else.
Got a letter from MPD for going 10 over past the one on 18th. It's pretty telling there's nothing south of Lake, I drive down there all the time and the drivers are no safer or slower than the north side.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is imho a key American social defect. Drivers just cannot take being told or implied that they did something wrong, even when they very clearly, objectively, did. I have no idea how to fix that but it’s something. It’s also the root of a lot of road rage.
One observation from this summer and I don’t know if it’s backed up by data but would love to hear: Vancouver has a much higher density of much higher quality parks than Seattle. It seemed like there was a nice well-maintained neighborhood park around every corner.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One observation from this summer and I don’t know if it’s backed up by data but would love to hear: Vancouver has a much higher density of much higher quality parks than Seattle. It seemed like there was a nice well-maintained neighborhood park around every corner.
It's almost hilarious how much MAGA actually loathes their own base.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It's almost hilarious how much MAGA actually loathes their own base.
Today I once again joined the weekly food rescue ride from Ballard and Fremont PCC stores, delivering the rescued food to the direct Food Not Bombs distribution in SODO for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers, bikes, and trailers to save food and get it to those that need it!
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Today I once again joined the weekly food rescue ride from Ballard and Fremont PCC stores, delivering the rescued food to the direct Food Not Bombs distribution in SODO for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers, bikes, and trailers to save food and get it to those that need it!
Alright which one of you friends put this sticker out here on Delridge. NIMBYs Suck. Neighbors are welcome.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Alright which one of you friends put this sticker out here on Delridge. NIMBYs Suck. Neighbors are welcome.
Today I delivered another 10 bags of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 5 families in White Center, Burien, and Seattle for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to deliver food to the homes of people with accessibility or mobility challenges
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Today I delivered another 10 bags of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 5 families in White Center, Burien, and Seattle for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to deliver food to the homes of people with accessibility or mobility challenges
Customer parking is customer parking. Take the space unapologetically. 🚲
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Customer parking is customer parking. Take the space unapologetically. 🚲
I really hate that I already got honked at and yelled at/harassed for using my bike in a lane (when there is no other option, downtown White Center) and also almost hit by a car and I haven’t even made a single delivery yet.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I really hate that I already got honked at and yelled at/harassed for using my bike in a lane (when there is no other option, downtown White Center) and also almost hit by a car and I haven’t even made a single delivery yet.
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A cyclist on a sidewalk is usually a symptom of bad infrastructure.
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
my hot take as a full-time pedestrian and transit rider is that i want cities to do the absolute maximum amount to provide cyclists with safe and protected bike lanes everywhere so that i don't have to feel the least bit bad for kicking one off the sidewalk into the street
And before you say anything about Just Do More Public Transit, make your neighbors less fucking neurotic about funding and designing roads for public transit
Replace bike lane flex posts with bollards!
Replace bike lane flex posts with bollards!
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A cyclist on a sidewalk is usually a symptom of bad infrastructure.
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
Dear Bluesky devs, when someone clicks "ALT" to add alt text they probably want to go ahead and type in the alt text field rather than in the post's text field which is behind the alt text modal.
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Dear Bluesky devs, when someone clicks "ALT" to add alt text they probably want to go ahead and type in the alt text field rather than in the post's text field which is behind the alt text modal.
I don't know why, but I am enamored by this photo I took of the church in Stege, Denmark.
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I don't know why, but I am enamored by this photo I took of the church in Stege, Denmark.
Seattle meets I-5
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Seattle meets I-5
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
Seattle drivers doing Seattle driver things.
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver who hit a 2-year-old child and then fled the scene at Alki Avenue SW near 61st Ave SW.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Seattle drivers doing Seattle driver things.
Even if we accept that streets were made for cars (definitely not true) they were definitely not made for every house to have 3-10 of them and park them for free on the street immediately in front. Take back the fucking space and make it work for the people.
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Even if we accept that streets were made for cars (definitely not true) they were definitely not made for every house to have 3-10 of them and park them for free on the street immediately in front. Take back the fucking space and make it work for the people.
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
Last night was @seattle.bikedis.co where we braved the cold and mostly-stopped rain to share the love, music, and lights with Seattle again, starting from Mt Baker Station this time. Join us next month on December 12 starting at Gasworks to see the Christmas Ships and more. 🚲❤️
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Last night was @seattle.bikedis.co where we braved the cold and mostly-stopped rain to share the love, music, and lights with Seattle again, starting from Mt Baker Station this time. Join us next month on December 12 starting at Gasworks to see the Christmas Ships and more. 🚲❤️