“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

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

SDOT has updated their post about Denny Way bus lanes and have uploaded the full traffic study, which you can read below.

In short, it's a 516 page document that does not mention mode shift or alternate routing a single time.

seattle.gov/documents/De...

Washington state does not need or want the president to militarize our streets.

Violent crime in Seattle and across Washington state is dropping.

Bruce Harrell: "When...I won the job, we still lived in a city by which cars are fighting with bikes and bikes are perhaps competing with transit, and people looked at the different forms of transportation and they didn't talk to each other very well."

In coordination with the City of Seattle, travelers may encounter off-ramp closures on NB & SB I-5 (mainline and the express lanes) and NB & SB SR 99 today (10/18).

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Bruce Harrell would have been happiest with a $1.1B inflation-adjusted continuation of the previous levy. Advocates pushed internally to get it to $1.35B and then publicly to $1.55B, with a 2:1 vote in favor.