Cameron Kast
@cameronkast456.bsky.social
I really love public transit
Pro-bike
Pro-pedestrian
#GoCougs
he/him
Pro-bike
Pro-pedestrian
#GoCougs
he/him
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It's a beautiful day at Pike Place Market.
April 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It's a beautiful day at Pike Place Market.
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North of the border, Brampton, ON provides a lesson for suburbs like Bellevue:
More frequent service & better transfers can make transit an attractive option - improving ridership even in a city with car-oriented land use patterns.
When transit is better, more people use it - strange but true!
More frequent service & better transfers can make transit an attractive option - improving ridership even in a city with car-oriented land use patterns.
When transit is better, more people use it - strange but true!
"We don’t have to wait until all our suburbs are rebuilt to become European-style walkable utopias; it’s possible to get people out of their cars in a matter of months simply by running buses more frequently."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?
Transit ridership is off the charts in Brampton, Ontario, despite its typical low-density suburban layout. Here’s how the city got residents to get on the bus.
www.bloomberg.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
North of the border, Brampton, ON provides a lesson for suburbs like Bellevue:
More frequent service & better transfers can make transit an attractive option - improving ridership even in a city with car-oriented land use patterns.
When transit is better, more people use it - strange but true!
More frequent service & better transfers can make transit an attractive option - improving ridership even in a city with car-oriented land use patterns.
When transit is better, more people use it - strange but true!
If you live in Bellevue and want to support housing efforts, please email council and planning commission. DM me if you need help.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/11/b...
#Bellevue #WA #Housing #Seattle #Eastside #Redmond #MissingMiddle
www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/11/b...
#Bellevue #WA #Housing #Seattle #Eastside #Redmond #MissingMiddle
Bellevue’s Bold Middle Housing Plan Faces Uncertain Fate at Planning Commission - The Urbanist
# The changes being considered by the Bellevue Planning Commission right now would go further than the minimum state mandate, allowing up to six units in many more areas and with considerable flexibil...
www.theurbanist.org
April 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If you live in Bellevue and want to support housing efforts, please email council and planning commission. DM me if you need help.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/11/b...
#Bellevue #WA #Housing #Seattle #Eastside #Redmond #MissingMiddle
www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/11/b...
#Bellevue #WA #Housing #Seattle #Eastside #Redmond #MissingMiddle
WWWWWW
SB 5184 passes 64-31!
Parking reform has officially passed both chambers of the Washington legislature!
Parking reform has officially passed both chambers of the Washington legislature!
April 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
WWWWWW
The crazy part is I do live in Bellevue and support increased density, much to the dismay of many of my community members who I saw last night.
Sorry I wasn't born earlier and able to buy 50 years ago! I should try that next time.
Sorry I wasn't born earlier and able to buy 50 years ago! I should try that next time.
"Listen to the people who actually live here," another commenter says, implying that only people from outside the city support modest increases in allowed density in Bellevue's neighborhoods.
April 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The crazy part is I do live in Bellevue and support increased density, much to the dismay of many of my community members who I saw last night.
Sorry I wasn't born earlier and able to buy 50 years ago! I should try that next time.
Sorry I wasn't born earlier and able to buy 50 years ago! I should try that next time.
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We know you would, that's the entire problem
April 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We know you would, that's the entire problem
How I look at myself as I prepare my 3-minute public comment.
a man in a red hoodie and blue hat is looking at himself in a mirror .
ALT: a man in a red hoodie and blue hat is looking at himself in a mirror .
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
How I look at myself as I prepare my 3-minute public comment.
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VZ comments close out with Cameron Kast, a Bridle Trails resident who has personally benefited from previous investments like the 108th Ave Complete Streets project. Still, he frequently has to change his route to avoid high vehicle speeds and dangerous conditions bellevuewa.gov/city-governm...
108th Avenue NE Complete Street
The 108th Avenue Complete Street project (video), open to the public in April 2021, builds on previous work for the 108th Avenue Bikeway, finished in 2018.
bellevuewa.gov
April 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
VZ comments close out with Cameron Kast, a Bridle Trails resident who has personally benefited from previous investments like the 108th Ave Complete Streets project. Still, he frequently has to change his route to avoid high vehicle speeds and dangerous conditions bellevuewa.gov/city-governm...
INVEST IN THE TRAIN INDUSTRY COWARDS
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
INVEST IN THE TRAIN INDUSTRY COWARDS
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Reposted by Cameron Kast
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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The City of Bellevue pushed to remove transit improvements for the future RapidRide K line along NE 10th Street, based upon theoretical traffic impacts in the year 2044, and they were dropped.
In case you're wondering why it's so hard for Metro to get effective RapidRide lines moved forward.
In case you're wondering why it's so hard for Metro to get effective RapidRide lines moved forward.
March 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The City of Bellevue pushed to remove transit improvements for the future RapidRide K line along NE 10th Street, based upon theoretical traffic impacts in the year 2044, and they were dropped.
In case you're wondering why it's so hard for Metro to get effective RapidRide lines moved forward.
In case you're wondering why it's so hard for Metro to get effective RapidRide lines moved forward.
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Pete Hegseth keeps texting me that I have unpaid EZ Pass tolls
March 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pete Hegseth keeps texting me that I have unpaid EZ Pass tolls
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Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities
70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.
www.bloomberg.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
I helped work on this fun thing.
Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
Researchers have spent 17 years working on this milestone.
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I helped work on this fun thing.
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No one in my city makes a pastime of badmouthing bus service quite like the people who never ride the bus.
February 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
No one in my city makes a pastime of badmouthing bus service quite like the people who never ride the bus.
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Short answer: Yes
"Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
"Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
February 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Short answer: Yes
"Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
"Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
New business idea. An app that you can lip sync songs on. Eventually we kinda ditch the lip syncing part and make it so people can upload small videos for fun.
Could be something NGL.
Could be something NGL.
January 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New business idea. An app that you can lip sync songs on. Eventually we kinda ditch the lip syncing part and make it so people can upload small videos for fun.
Could be something NGL.
Could be something NGL.
Join this fun group of people for a meetup. Every Thursday! 😇
✨ Weekly Meetup Thurs 1/16 ✨
6-8p - Jack Sprat / Overlake Village / Redmond
Just a friendly group of locals trying to learn how to shape the place we live, together! All are welcome, super casual, on the 2 Line - join us! 🧡
www.meetup.com/eastside-urb...
6-8p - Jack Sprat / Overlake Village / Redmond
Just a friendly group of locals trying to learn how to shape the place we live, together! All are welcome, super casual, on the 2 Line - join us! 🧡
www.meetup.com/eastside-urb...
Eastside Urbanism Weekly Meetup!, Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Every Thursday, we are at Jack Sprat in Esterra Park hanging out and talking about our built environment.** Grab some food or a drink! Meet neighbors and hear about what'
www.meetup.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Join this fun group of people for a meetup. Every Thursday! 😇