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Qagggy!
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📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · May 19
I wrote about the new Shared Streets Law.
Governor Signs Washington’s First-in-the-Nation Shared Streets Law - The Urbanist
# Cities in Washington will have the legal authority to create shared streets, which feature much lower speed limits and put pedestrians first, under Senate Bill 5595. Governor Bob Ferguson signed the...
www.theurbanist.org
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11h
The three Amazon delivery micro-contraptions I spotted in New York this week. Which is cutest?
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 12h
It’s like it was never there!
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 12h
No more bridge over nothing in Interbay.
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Mhgreen3000 @mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 23h
Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?

This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?

My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social
COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'
From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 14h
Setting up the drone shot.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15h
July!
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · Jul 27
When complete, East Marginal Way could be the finest industrial bike route in America.
Bike lane with UPS plane flying overhead.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15h
I stand by my earlier assessment.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · Jul 27
When complete, East Marginal Way could be the finest industrial bike route in America.
Bike lane with UPS plane flying overhead.
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Greg Spotts @spottnik.bsky.social · 18h
i wish i was in town to join this first-day ride!!!
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18h
We are riding the new E. Marginal Way bike lane with @bestsidecycling.com.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18h
We are riding the new E. Marginal Way bike lane with @bestsidecycling.com.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22h
Big Business Trading Cards:
Collect them all!
(Mayor Harrell has.)
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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d
For our third installment of “Harrell's Big Business Backers,” we present Christopher Larson, a retired Microsoft executive who forked over $50K to Harrell’s campaign. What's he buying? Lower taxes for wealthy folks like him.
A graphic emulating a baseball card with a headshot of Christopher Larson on a green background with floating dollar bills, showing he donated $50,000 The back of the baseball card graphic with bulleted points that retired Microsoft executive; spent 160 million renovating his mansion in the highlands, an exclusive shoreline gated community; Lost 19 paintings worth about $50 million, including a Monet, in his 2012 divorce settlement. kept the 1911 Rolls-Royce. silver ghost, valued at 1.4 million in his divorce, but lost the 11 Volvos.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23h
I can only imagine. Those pole bases and fluted shafts are my favorite pieces of Seattle street furniture.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23h
My photo doesn't do it justice but it's a nice shade of blue-green. I have no idea what the artists are planning but it would be cool if there were, like, vines growing from the sidewalk up the pole.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23h
The body language after "May I call you Bruce?"
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23h
Fun Fact: The Standard Plans call Seattle's unique crosswalk marking a "ladder style" but it is actually a "bar pair" crosswalk, sometimes nicknamed a "piano key."

Fun Fact 2: The other major city that uses a bar pair is Charlotte, NC, which combines the ladder and bar pair style. #GeoguessrTips
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
Mayors Durkan and Schell tear-gassed me (in separate incidents) but I still address them by their names.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
I am a known Mayor Harrell disliker but I still call him Mayor Harrell and next year I will call him former mayor Harrell or whatever he prefers to be called in private life.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
In all of their debates, did Mayor Harrell even once call his opponent by her name...Katie, Katie Wilson, or Ms. Wilson?
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
We could call it Standard Plan No. 712a.
Page from Seattle's Standard Plans document. https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SPU/Engineering/specifications-plans/2023-Standard-Plans.pdf
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
It looks like we’re trying more stuff to activate downtown.
Light post painted greenish.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
It’s remarkable to see a residential street just turned over to people using granite blocks, planters, posts and paint.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s how the closure is signed and enforced. It’s like a softer version of a pandemic era “healthy street.” I don’t think anyone expects a closure like this to be effective.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
“All over the map” is a good slogan for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. I, personally, would like more housing “all over the map.”
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d
Wilson explains the difference between her shelter proposal and housing, then goes on to say the city should consider putting homeless people in some of those vacant units. Harrell says she's "all over the map on housing" because she also supports more housing supply overall (not a contradiction!)
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
This morning, I sat on the McClure “school street” and counted cars violating the closure during the 30 minutes before the first bell. There were 16, about one every two minutes.
Car in a closed school street.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
Wide street with center-running grass lane.
43rd Street in the U District.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d
It was an absolute privilege to present Shared Streets to the next generation of civil engineers at the University of Washington today.
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