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Just watched a car driver pass this big line of traffic that my bus is stuck in driving down the center turning lane. Rainier is such a failure of design
October 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Just watched a car driver pass this big line of traffic that my bus is stuck in driving down the center turning lane. Rainier is such a failure of design
Waiting for a late 8 to get to a #WeekWithoutDriving access ride along and it's wheelchair section is full. Unreliable buses mean more people waiting for a single bus and more likely that the only 2 seats i can use will be full.
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Waiting for a late 8 to get to a #WeekWithoutDriving access ride along and it's wheelchair section is full. Unreliable buses mean more people waiting for a single bus and more likely that the only 2 seats i can use will be full.
So excited to gear up for #WeekWithoutDriving with a King County Council proclamation!
🚶🚲🚌🦼 Over 30% of King County residents don’t drive—and yet most of our transportation system is built for those who do. That’s why the King County Council has proclaimed Sept. 30-Oct 5 the Week Without Driving—to better understand and address these challenges. #WeekWithoutDriving
September 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So excited to gear up for #WeekWithoutDriving with a King County Council proclamation!
#WeekWithoutDriving is 1 week away! Having electeds who are willing and wanting to understand the experiences of nondrivers matters and impacts legislation throughout the year. Ask your Councilmembers to participate! @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social
Seattle's long in-person public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan has officially kicked off.
First comments were from @ceceliablack.bsky.social: "As you're going through this Comp Plan, I would really hope you ask yourself what you would do if you were disabled tomorrow and you couldn't drive."
First comments were from @ceceliablack.bsky.social: "As you're going through this Comp Plan, I would really hope you ask yourself what you would do if you were disabled tomorrow and you couldn't drive."
September 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#WeekWithoutDriving is 1 week away! Having electeds who are willing and wanting to understand the experiences of nondrivers matters and impacts legislation throughout the year. Ask your Councilmembers to participate! @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social
This elevator line encapsulates the Overlook walk experience for people in wheelchairs
July 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This elevator line encapsulates the Overlook walk experience for people in wheelchairs
Join us next Monday, July 14th, from 5:30 - 8 for a special City Council candidate forum focused on disability issues in Beacon Hill!
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July 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join us next Monday, July 14th, from 5:30 - 8 for a special City Council candidate forum focused on disability issues in Beacon Hill!
www.eventbrite.com/e/city-counc...
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The 46th District Democrats endorse Katie @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor -- and it wasn't close. She got 75% of the vote, with the next closest candidate at 28%. Wow. You love to see this too!
May 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The 46th District Democrats endorse Katie @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for mayor -- and it wasn't close. She got 75% of the vote, with the next closest candidate at 28%. Wow. You love to see this too!
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so cool to see children testifying against a housing plan because their moms told them the city council was trying to kill the environment by chopping down all the pretty trees
April 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
so cool to see children testifying against a housing plan because their moms told them the city council was trying to kill the environment by chopping down all the pretty trees
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“Even if we manage to live somewhere with reliable transit or find a job that allows for remote work, too often employers will still list a driver’s license as a condition of employment — even when the job has nothing to do with driving.”
Stanford bill expanding job opportunities for people with disabilities signed into law
Sen. Stanford (2nd from left), Gov. Ferguson. Anna Zivarts and Cecelia Black from Disability Rights Washington are to the right in the ph...
www.shorelineareanews.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Even if we manage to live somewhere with reliable transit or find a job that allows for remote work, too often employers will still list a driver’s license as a condition of employment — even when the job has nothing to do with driving.”
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It’s happening!!! will be an awesome organizing tool to build transit rider power and leadership pipelines for nondrivers
April 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It’s happening!!! will be an awesome organizing tool to build transit rider power and leadership pipelines for nondrivers
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If you're a Washington resident, please send your state legislators a message through this action alert to preserve state funding for the library:
Take action to save the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library
Our allies at Washington Council of the Blind and National Federation of the Blind of Washington have asked for help to preserve funding for the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTTBL), wh...
actionnetwork.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you're a Washington resident, please send your state legislators a message through this action alert to preserve state funding for the library:
Help us get a wheelchair right to repair bill passed! Wheelchair users spend weeks and months, often in dangerous situations, waiting for basic repairs they could often do at home. Urge your reps to pass it in the house!
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
Action Alert: Support SB 5680 - Right to Repair for Wheelchairs
Last week, the Washington State Senate unanimously approved SB 5680 to give people with disabilities the right to repair their own wheelchairs. Now we need your help to pass it out of the House Consum...
actionnetwork.org
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Help us get a wheelchair right to repair bill passed! Wheelchair users spend weeks and months, often in dangerous situations, waiting for basic repairs they could often do at home. Urge your reps to pass it in the house!
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
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It was nice when the bus came for our pro-bus rally. Photo above shows rally organizers @kirkhovenkotter.com and @katielorah.bsky.social and other local transit advocates. Here you can also see co-organizer @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Washington.
April 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It was nice when the bus came for our pro-bus rally. Photo above shows rally organizers @kirkhovenkotter.com and @katielorah.bsky.social and other local transit advocates. Here you can also see co-organizer @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Washington.
New sidewalks, bus lanes & lighting! What's the controversy?!
Lovely day to support better public transit for Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Bothell!
👉 Lfp4brt.org
Thanks to @transpochoices.bsky.social and @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Wa for speaking out in support!
LESS FUSS MORE BUS!
👉 Lfp4brt.org
Thanks to @transpochoices.bsky.social and @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Wa for speaking out in support!
LESS FUSS MORE BUS!
April 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
New sidewalks, bus lanes & lighting! What's the controversy?!
Proud to be part of a wheelchair led group advocating for our right to repair our own wheelchairs. We've been fighting the wheelchair vendor lobby to keep ableist exemptions blocking most repairs out of the bill. Yesterday, SB 5680 narrowly passed out of committee without any of NCART's amendments
April 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Proud to be part of a wheelchair led group advocating for our right to repair our own wheelchairs. We've been fighting the wheelchair vendor lobby to keep ableist exemptions blocking most repairs out of the bill. Yesterday, SB 5680 narrowly passed out of committee without any of NCART's amendments
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Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.
New SR 509 Expressway to Sea-Tac Airport opens in October—but it’ll cost you
A direct SR 509 Expressway is set to open in October, connecting I-5 to Burien after years of construction near I-5 and the Kent Des-Moines Road.
mynorthwest.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.
We need everyone to sign in PRO for HB 1418, a bill that would allow transit agencies to appoint 2 transit riders to voting members of agency boards. I don't know what's scary about rider representation, but a lot of people are opposed.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?s...
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?s...
March 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We need everyone to sign in PRO for HB 1418, a bill that would allow transit agencies to appoint 2 transit riders to voting members of agency boards. I don't know what's scary about rider representation, but a lot of people are opposed.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?s...
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?s...
Amplifying this! If only the preservation board cared so much about people with disabilities...
It’s disappointing that Seattle Parks rebuilt Victor Steinbrueck Park and didn’t make the northern crosswalk accessible. I would have assumed a project that big would have triggered ADA requirements?
March 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Amplifying this! If only the preservation board cared so much about people with disabilities...
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…leveraging affordable housing subsidies to build a complex for transit reliant residents with lots of wheelchair accessible units. The I looked up the zoning. In the proposed comp plan, is slated to stay a neighborhood (low rise) residential zone. Literally 200 ft from a light rail stop. 2/
March 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
…leveraging affordable housing subsidies to build a complex for transit reliant residents with lots of wheelchair accessible units. The I looked up the zoning. In the proposed comp plan, is slated to stay a neighborhood (low rise) residential zone. Literally 200 ft from a light rail stop. 2/
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Great interview here. @ceceliablack.bsky.social really demystifies the One Seattle growth plan, w/ special attention to how restrictive zoning impacts people with disabilities, who are too often overlooked in the planning process. www.kuow.org/stories/how-...
How the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan could affect people with disabilities
The One Seattle Comprehensive Plan is working its way through city council. It dictates how the city will grow over the next twenty years, including where density is allowed.
www.kuow.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great interview here. @ceceliablack.bsky.social really demystifies the One Seattle growth plan, w/ special attention to how restrictive zoning impacts people with disabilities, who are too often overlooked in the planning process. www.kuow.org/stories/how-...
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“Combined with our dominance of single-family zoning, this means that the majority of our city prohibits the types of housing most likely to be accessible, leaving many neighborhoods with very few options for people with mobility disabilities.”- @ceceliablack.bsky.social
www.theurbanist.org
March 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Combined with our dominance of single-family zoning, this means that the majority of our city prohibits the types of housing most likely to be accessible, leaving many neighborhoods with very few options for people with mobility disabilities.”- @ceceliablack.bsky.social
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"Let’s embrace the moment to create a different city with accessible, multi-generational communities that support active mobility for people of all ages and abilities in every neighborhood."
Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.
Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.
NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Single Family Zoning Is Keeping Seattle Inaccessible to Disabled People www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/11/o...
Op-Ed: Single Family Zoning Is Keeping Seattle Inaccessible to Disabled People - The Urbanist
# For the last 30 years, Seattle has adopted an urban village approach to growth that has reserved 75% of the city for single-family zoning while concentrating growth into walkable urban centers. This...
www.theurbanist.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Let’s embrace the moment to create a different city with accessible, multi-generational communities that support active mobility for people of all ages and abilities in every neighborhood."
Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.
Hear, hear! Another great piece by @ceceliablack.bsky.social as usual.
This perfectly captures my experience at the new waterfront park. After living in Chicago and experiencing the incredible power of Millennium Park's universal design, it feels extremely hurtful that I don't get to be fully part of Seattle's vision for its future
www.thestranger.com/city/2025/02...
www.thestranger.com/city/2025/02...
Seattle’s New Waterfront Will Not Be Enjoyed by All
The City of Seattle chose to build an entire area meant for enjoying a walk along the water that marginalizes 25 percent of its population.
www.thestranger.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This perfectly captures my experience at the new waterfront park. After living in Chicago and experiencing the incredible power of Millennium Park's universal design, it feels extremely hurtful that I don't get to be fully part of Seattle's vision for its future
www.thestranger.com/city/2025/02...
www.thestranger.com/city/2025/02...
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Congrats to the many @democrats.org senators that voted to confirm this guy, including Washington’s own @cantwell.senate.gov. A real 4D chess move I’m sure.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.
February 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Congrats to the many @democrats.org senators that voted to confirm this guy, including Washington’s own @cantwell.senate.gov. A real 4D chess move I’m sure.
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It turns out you just need to throw in a few hundred inches of snow a year to convince car-obsessed people to support free mass transit...
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
This tiny mountain town is proof that free transit works in California
Locals in this tiny California town are raving about their thriving local transit system that's entirely free to use.
www.sfgate.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It turns out you just need to throw in a few hundred inches of snow a year to convince car-obsessed people to support free mass transit...
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...