@skytransitcyclist.bsky.social
Voracious reader, transit lover, cyclist, appreciator of ridiculous movies. They/them
As a non-driving cyclist, I wish this were the perspective of all drivers I encounter. In fact, I wish this were the attitude any of us would have when interacting with another person: start with empathy, safety, and respect!
A driver’s perspective on passing a cyclist safely. A short thread.
I was driving to work and came up behind a cyclist. High vis, tail lights, mirror. They kept checking over their shoulder. I know that look. Starting your day already bracing for nonsense.
I was driving to work and came up behind a cyclist. High vis, tail lights, mirror. They kept checking over their shoulder. I know that look. Starting your day already bracing for nonsense.
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
As a non-driving cyclist, I wish this were the perspective of all drivers I encounter. In fact, I wish this were the attitude any of us would have when interacting with another person: start with empathy, safety, and respect!
It's amazing the contortions that car brains go through to avoid admitting they have an addiction, rather than choosing a more suitable mode of conveyance like walking, biking, or taking transit. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I-5 closures lead drivers to plead for express-lane relief
Although construction is reducing northbound I-5 lanes, the southbound commute is gnarlier.
www.seattletimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
It's amazing the contortions that car brains go through to avoid admitting they have an addiction, rather than choosing a more suitable mode of conveyance like walking, biking, or taking transit. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Build a new electric trolley bus line.
What’s a thing we did once, it turned out great, and we have no plans to do ever again?
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Build a new electric trolley bus line.
I'm pretty sure if we did this in Seattle, it would be like printing money and we could go fare-free. Especially if it included illegally passing a bus trying to merge back into traffic (RCW 46.61.220).
Heads up, Boston drivers.
The MBTA uses bus mounted cameras to ticket vehicles illegally parked or idling in bus lanes and bus stops.
Fines range from $25 to $125.
The MBTA uses bus mounted cameras to ticket vehicles illegally parked or idling in bus lanes and bus stops.
Fines range from $25 to $125.
January 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I'm pretty sure if we did this in Seattle, it would be like printing money and we could go fare-free. Especially if it included illegally passing a bus trying to merge back into traffic (RCW 46.61.220).
In 25 years of owning my own bikes, I've had $405 in capital expenses (i.e. I've owned two used bikes), and $2160 in maintenance/repairs/parts/etc. All non-inflation adjusted, but try doing that with a car even over a year.
"No car payments, no gas, no expensive repairs,” one commenter wrote bluntly."
Yes, all this 👇
January 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
In 25 years of owning my own bikes, I've had $405 in capital expenses (i.e. I've owned two used bikes), and $2160 in maintenance/repairs/parts/etc. All non-inflation adjusted, but try doing that with a car even over a year.
Over 30 years later, I still love the ST:TNG finale, easily the best finale of any Star Trek. I know it doesn't really count, but the S4 finale of B5 is excellent too, when they actually thought that it could be the series finale (S5 is ... not great though).
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Over 30 years later, I still love the ST:TNG finale, easily the best finale of any Star Trek. I know it doesn't really count, but the S4 finale of B5 is excellent too, when they actually thought that it could be the series finale (S5 is ... not great though).
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.
www.postalley.org/2025/12/30/g...
www.postalley.org/2025/12/30/g...
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...
spdblotter.seattle.gov
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...