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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 12h

This is Sara Nelson's dream of us "getting off our phones and interacting with the city"

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone elected who runs on "how cool AI is" automatically loses my vote

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 15h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 20h

If you already have Ryobi 18v batteries you NEED this air compressor, my god is it luxury. Digital gauge with auto-off is unreal.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 20h

For real:
Side streets
Safeway
Whole Foods
QFC

A sea of parking between those

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile, just across the street is an empty parking lot

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

The thing that sucks about living in the states is that you can't confront people like you can in say the UK. Makes it that much harder to enforce the societal contract.

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

To get to the gym? Preposterous!

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

What pissed me off is I was walking with a kid on my shoulders to their dance class from a few blocks over, and *I* was somehow the one demanding too much by wanting a safe, clear sidewalk

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

Also, this pic really makes you question if this is indeed the densest part of West Seattle or a strip mall area in a depressed small town

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

Here is this intersection of California and Edmunds highlighted to show the areas where cars have priority (red) and where pedestrians can (maybe) expect not to intersect with cars (yellow).

Yet somehow we're asking drivers to sacrifice too much.

California and SW Edmunds with driveways, roads, and parking lots highlighted in red, and sidewalks where there are no potential vehicle conflicts, in yellow. The red makes up well over 90% of the ground level space.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

Here is this intersection of California and Edmunds highlighted to show the areas where cars have priority (red) and where pedestrians can (maybe) expect not to intersect with cars (yellow).

Yet somehow we're asking drivers to sacrifice too much.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

I genuinely think new electeds need to be required to move about the city everywhere for a month in a wheelchair or with a stroller

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 21h

For being one the fittest cities in the country there sure are a lot of functional adults in Seattle who can't seem to fathom the idea of walking a half block

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 22h

Somehow this one person's coffee is more important than these dozen people trying to safely get through this car sewer

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 22h

The black Subaru said "I'll only be 10 minutes" and "what can I do there's no parking."

Meanwhile literally a half block down there's endless parking .