@skytransitcyclist.bsky.social
Voracious reader, transit lover, cyclist, appreciator of ridiculous movies. They/them
When people claim that congestion pricing's and public transit's goal is to make car travel as inconvenient as possible, I know they don't actually understand how the world works.
Despite what Jean Godden and her "oracle" are predicting, I'm going to go out on a limb and assert that Katie Wilson will not make "auto travel as inconvenient as possible" in Seattle.
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January 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
When people claim that congestion pricing's and public transit's goal is to make car travel as inconvenient as possible, I know they don't actually understand how the world works.
I finally got out on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, despite ending up doing it on one of the hottest days of the year for us. I'm looking forward to getting out there again next year, and checking out some more far-flung trails too. bsky.app/profile/skyt...
I need some positivity. Quote or reply with your favorite bike memory of 2025. It can be a great ride, an advocacy accomplishment, whatever. Let's celebrate bikes.
My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.
My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I finally got out on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, despite ending up doing it on one of the hottest days of the year for us. I'm looking forward to getting out there again next year, and checking out some more far-flung trails too. bsky.app/profile/skyt...
It's amazing how easy it is to blow a car brain's mind when you point out that bicycles, trains, and walking all existed as forms of transportation before the automobile.
I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.
December 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's amazing how easy it is to blow a car brain's mind when you point out that bicycles, trains, and walking all existed as forms of transportation before the automobile.
The hilarious thing is that I find SEA to be by far the best airport I have ever flown through in the country. Not only does it have 10-minute 1 Line service, but it also is served by the 10-minute RapidRide A Line service, numerous other local buses. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit... #SEATAC
Sea-Tac must modernize to meet the needs of a growing region | Editorial
A congested airport serving the Puget Sound region benefits no one. Port leaders are right to upgrade facilities and prepare for more people.
www.seattletimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The hilarious thing is that I find SEA to be by far the best airport I have ever flown through in the country. Not only does it have 10-minute 1 Line service, but it also is served by the 10-minute RapidRide A Line service, numerous other local buses. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit... #SEATAC
I love seeing trips like this by transit! Transit isn't just for commuting/saving parking costs.
Transit works best when it's useful to as many people as possible, performing as many different kinds of types of trips as possible.
In perhaps the quintessential Seattle example of an unpredictable utility trip:
Here's me, delivering a new procurement of kitchenwares from Costco on a bendy boy!
In perhaps the quintessential Seattle example of an unpredictable utility trip:
Here's me, delivering a new procurement of kitchenwares from Costco on a bendy boy!
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I love seeing trips like this by transit! Transit isn't just for commuting/saving parking costs.
I wonder if Nordstrom's will use the same delivery strategy as Ross, blocking the sidewalk and bus lane illegally with an aggressive off-duty cop berating potential customers who complain? Businesses have a role in making downtown welcoming too. www.seattletimes.com/business/ret...
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I wonder if Nordstrom's will use the same delivery strategy as Ross, blocking the sidewalk and bus lane illegally with an aggressive off-duty cop berating potential customers who complain? Businesses have a role in making downtown welcoming too. www.seattletimes.com/business/ret...
If there were more "aggressive" delivery cyclists like Joe, I would be much more likely to use delivery services. As it is, to use any delivery service is to accept that the drivers need to engage in dangerous and illegal behavior for my convenience.
My Uber Eats order was delivered by a very aggressive bicyclist I’ve seen around the city the past two years.
His name is Joe.
His name is Joe.
December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If there were more "aggressive" delivery cyclists like Joe, I would be much more likely to use delivery services. As it is, to use any delivery service is to accept that the drivers need to engage in dangerous and illegal behavior for my convenience.
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instead of cutting taxes and stopping costs on the car traffic that makes Portland worse, like a Republican, how about you tax the wealthy and use the revenue for programs to help the lower class? You know, like a progressive might.
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
instead of cutting taxes and stopping costs on the car traffic that makes Portland worse, like a Republican, how about you tax the wealthy and use the revenue for programs to help the lower class? You know, like a progressive might.
Why not just take that money and subsidize the existing fast foot ferries so they take the same fare as all other transit service? Oh, right, that only benefits people and not cars.
Ferguson proposing $3 billion in bonds for highways and vehicle ferries and then proposing to divert hundreds of millions in Climate Commitment Act dollars a few days later is such an incredible one-two punch.
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Why not just take that money and subsidize the existing fast foot ferries so they take the same fare as all other transit service? Oh, right, that only benefits people and not cars.
There's plenty of uses for cargo bikes, which fit far better into an urban environment than any personal gas-powered vehicle. For instance:
cranksgiving.org
cascade.org/outreach-adv...
Not to mention all the personal uses of them for groceries, home supplies, kid-transporting, etc.
cranksgiving.org
cascade.org/outreach-adv...
Not to mention all the personal uses of them for groceries, home supplies, kid-transporting, etc.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There's plenty of uses for cargo bikes, which fit far better into an urban environment than any personal gas-powered vehicle. For instance:
cranksgiving.org
cascade.org/outreach-adv...
Not to mention all the personal uses of them for groceries, home supplies, kid-transporting, etc.
cranksgiving.org
cascade.org/outreach-adv...
Not to mention all the personal uses of them for groceries, home supplies, kid-transporting, etc.
I think when this many people turn out for a new safe crossing, it says something about the overall lack of safe crossings. Great to see so many people who care, though!
Counted 50 people celebrating a new traffic light, so at least I'm not alone.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I think when this many people turn out for a new safe crossing, it says something about the overall lack of safe crossings. Great to see so many people who care, though!
This could be describing the intersection I bike through every day for work. Despite having NTOR signs, 25mph speed limit, and being adjacent to a premier rail trail, a six-lane stroad is still a stroad and encourages reckless driving. Every few months I'll have a close call with a red-light runner
"cyclists have learned to wait at least five seconds after they receive a green light because, without fail, the driver of a 3,000-plus-pound machine will be blowing through the red light "
“the city we live in: Pointless enforcement of bikes, no enforcement of cars, and weak design of the bike network” @nyc.streetsblog.org nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/d...
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This could be describing the intersection I bike through every day for work. Despite having NTOR signs, 25mph speed limit, and being adjacent to a premier rail trail, a six-lane stroad is still a stroad and encourages reckless driving. Every few months I'll have a close call with a red-light runner
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Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
As someone who crosses Aurora on foot and bike, this is terrifying. If you haven't voted yet, please vote for the candidates that are committed to keeping our communities safe: @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social , @alexis4seattle.bsky.social, Evans and Foster. spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/28/d...
Driver Running Red Light Causes Multi-Vehicle Crash in North Seattle - SPD Blotter
Seattle police officers are investigating after a driver ran a red light, causing a multi-vehicle traffic crash in North Seattle this afternoon. At about 1:30 p.m., patrol officers responded to report...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As someone who crosses Aurora on foot and bike, this is terrifying. If you haven't voted yet, please vote for the candidates that are committed to keeping our communities safe: @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social , @alexis4seattle.bsky.social, Evans and Foster. spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/28/d...
This is my kind of cyclist!
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is my kind of cyclist!
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If you don’t frequently see families with kids traveling to destinations by bike, your bike network isn’t safe enough (&/or your zoning forces sprawl & car dependency).
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If you don’t frequently see families with kids traveling to destinations by bike, your bike network isn’t safe enough (&/or your zoning forces sprawl & car dependency).
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Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
www.construction-physics.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Apparently the fact that I need this to breathe doesn't enter into this calculation, nor the fact that the "cheapest" inhaler I can use is already almost $300/mo w/o insurance (thankfully I do). Maybe we should ask drivers to drive only when needed? #weekwithoutdriving
The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Apparently the fact that I need this to breathe doesn't enter into this calculation, nor the fact that the "cheapest" inhaler I can use is already almost $300/mo w/o insurance (thankfully I do). Maybe we should ask drivers to drive only when needed? #weekwithoutdriving
This happened on my bike commute route. I've never had something so egregious happen, but 40th along this stretch is a classic stroad - a residential street with some commercial use, but setup as an arterial which encourages the car-brains to drive aggressively spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/04/m...
Man Arrested for Assault After Ramming Into Family's Van With Children Inside, Setting it on Fire - SPD Blotter
Seattle police officers arrested a 25-year-old man this evening on multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon after ramming his vehicle into a van with a family inside, including two children, ca...
spdblotter.seattle.gov
October 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This happened on my bike commute route. I've never had something so egregious happen, but 40th along this stretch is a classic stroad - a residential street with some commercial use, but setup as an arterial which encourages the car-brains to drive aggressively spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/04/m...
COVID and flu boosters acquired. Take that, RFK
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
COVID and flu boosters acquired. Take that, RFK
That barrier clearly darted into traffic and needs some more hi-viz clothing. Driver can't be responsible for this at all.
A nice thing about this kind of incident getting onto the Seattle subreddit, and then having very active comment sections, is that a lot of folks process exactly why this kind of protection is needed.
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
That barrier clearly darted into traffic and needs some more hi-viz clothing. Driver can't be responsible for this at all.
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
"Old man, 79, realizes TV not always real" www.kgw.com/article/news...
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."
www.kgw.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Old man, 79, realizes TV not always real" www.kgw.com/article/news...
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More evidence that biking is really good for you:
After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
More evidence that biking is really good for you:
After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
"I'll only be here a minute" says the first of five drivers to block a single bike lane in three minutes. #carsinbikelanes
September 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"I'll only be here a minute" says the first of five drivers to block a single bike lane in three minutes. #carsinbikelanes