Lydia Heard
@citywanderer.bsky.social
I like to walk in cities.
Walking mostly Seattle WA, U.S.
Walking mostly Seattle WA, U.S.
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Unfortunately, not everyone is on board with this vision. We lost about $2,000 in donations because we took a strong stand for an affordable and walkable city this year. If you agree it was the right thing to do, please donate if you can — it will be matched today! seattlegreenways.org/donate
I still get questions/concerns about why should transportation advocates get involved in land use planning: "Isn't advocating for bike lanes and safe pedestrian streets hard enough without adding in another controversial issue?"
But the two are fundamentally, critically, inseparable.
But the two are fundamentally, critically, inseparable.
Tell @council.seattle.gov let's make Seattle walkable and affordable by:
1) Legalizing corner stores
2) Expanding neighborhood centers
3) Adding flexibility in car parking regulations
4) Encouraging stacked flats
5) Supporting social housing
Take action today!
1) Legalizing corner stores
2) Expanding neighborhood centers
3) Adding flexibility in car parking regulations
4) Encouraging stacked flats
5) Supporting social housing
Take action today!
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Unfortunately, not everyone is on board with this vision. We lost about $2,000 in donations because we took a strong stand for an affordable and walkable city this year. If you agree it was the right thing to do, please donate if you can — it will be matched today! seattlegreenways.org/donate
Our big trees are dying. Three died this year within a block, and others previously. We can't save every tree, but should be planning our city for more people and greener streets, and our urban canopy for climate resilience and reducing heat islands. And stopping the things we know cause warming.
August 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Our big trees are dying. Three died this year within a block, and others previously. We can't save every tree, but should be planning our city for more people and greener streets, and our urban canopy for climate resilience and reducing heat islands. And stopping the things we know cause warming.
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Candidates won't be the only things on the ballots that arrive in Seattle this week.
Proposition 1 to renew the Democracy Vouchers program is also on the ballot.
It's a big deal but flying under the radar, so please spread the word!
Proposition 1 to renew the Democracy Vouchers program is also on the ballot.
It's a big deal but flying under the radar, so please spread the word!
Seattle's Democracy Vouchers are on the August ballot!
Proposition 1 would renew funding for the 1st system in the U.S. that gives residents public money to support local candidates of their choice.
An advocate and professor who has studied the program help us understand what's at stake.
#SEAelex
Proposition 1 would renew funding for the 1st system in the U.S. that gives residents public money to support local candidates of their choice.
An advocate and professor who has studied the program help us understand what's at stake.
#SEAelex
Seattle's Democracy Voucher Program Faces Critical Renewal Vote in August Primary
Proposition 1 would continue nation's only public campaign financing system using vouchers
officialhacksandwonks.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Candidates won't be the only things on the ballots that arrive in Seattle this week.
Proposition 1 to renew the Democracy Vouchers program is also on the ballot.
It's a big deal but flying under the radar, so please spread the word!
Proposition 1 to renew the Democracy Vouchers program is also on the ballot.
It's a big deal but flying under the radar, so please spread the word!
I remember mapping shooting incidents some years ago in Belltown. They were nightlife related, but actually took place in public parking lots. Bouncers/security kept guns out of bars but patrons retrieved them from their cars to continue their grievances.
The proposal, to be clear, will regulate late-night businesses by requiring a permit and security guards. It's not a panacea, despite the aggressive self-back-patting the city council is engaging in at this moment.
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I remember mapping shooting incidents some years ago in Belltown. They were nightlife related, but actually took place in public parking lots. Bouncers/security kept guns out of bars but patrons retrieved them from their cars to continue their grievances.
Great turnout at Seattle Center, beautiful day.
April 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Great turnout at Seattle Center, beautiful day.
Our Mayor and Council approved violent means of suppressing protests. Now Westlake Park is being redesigned without public input. Will further suppression be built in?
March 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our Mayor and Council approved violent means of suppressing protests. Now Westlake Park is being redesigned without public input. Will further suppression be built in?
I've been noticing a breakdown of the public social contract, similar to what happened during the pandemic but with a lot more people out and interacting. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I've been noticing a breakdown of the public social contract, similar to what happened during the pandemic but with a lot more people out and interacting. 🧵
So proud of our Fremont Neighborhood Council. New people, new mood, small but growing.
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So proud of our Fremont Neighborhood Council. New people, new mood, small but growing.
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For the next beautiful day in your neighborhood, consider doing a Walk About Nothing 🚶➡️
Learn more in "How a Walk ABout Nothing Can Change Everything About Public Engagement" on our site: buff.ly/40Gc1jW
Learn more in "How a Walk ABout Nothing Can Change Everything About Public Engagement" on our site: buff.ly/40Gc1jW
January 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
For the next beautiful day in your neighborhood, consider doing a Walk About Nothing 🚶➡️
Learn more in "How a Walk ABout Nothing Can Change Everything About Public Engagement" on our site: buff.ly/40Gc1jW
Learn more in "How a Walk ABout Nothing Can Change Everything About Public Engagement" on our site: buff.ly/40Gc1jW
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Speak up, even if your voice shakes when you do it
January 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Speak up, even if your voice shakes when you do it
I wonder if the Texas Killer Bees strategy of the 1970s would work for the U.S. senate now? Honestly asking, I don't know.
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I wonder if the Texas Killer Bees strategy of the 1970s would work for the U.S. senate now? Honestly asking, I don't know.
We might get rain/snow and freeze overnight so I just salted the sidewalks I'm responsible for. Corner lot, long sidewalk plus curb ramps. I'm an old bird I but also shovel them when needed. Hit or miss as to who else will. Dangerous transportation inequity.
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The double standard in how we handle sidewalks vs. streets, one being considered a public responsibility and the other a private, has got to be the single most important one preventing the U.S. from being walkable, IMO.
February 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We might get rain/snow and freeze overnight so I just salted the sidewalks I'm responsible for. Corner lot, long sidewalk plus curb ramps. I'm an old bird I but also shovel them when needed. Hit or miss as to who else will. Dangerous transportation inequity.
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Having lived elsewhere, I’ll never take for granted how uncomplicated it is to vote here in Washington! Love taking our ballots to the drop box. Vote for housing with Prop 1A and to fund schools!
February 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Having lived elsewhere, I’ll never take for granted how uncomplicated it is to vote here in Washington! Love taking our ballots to the drop box. Vote for housing with Prop 1A and to fund schools!
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This drives me nuts. Some Ballard examples
February 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This drives me nuts. Some Ballard examples
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I’ve had a number of US friends & collectors reach out to me, as they are so scared by the Trump/Heritage Council fascist regime.
‘What can we do?’ they ask me. I think it’s because I often right about human rights, protest & the Holocaust.
So here are my suggestions.
‘What can we do?’ they ask me. I think it’s because I often right about human rights, protest & the Holocaust.
So here are my suggestions.
February 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’ve had a number of US friends & collectors reach out to me, as they are so scared by the Trump/Heritage Council fascist regime.
‘What can we do?’ they ask me. I think it’s because I often right about human rights, protest & the Holocaust.
So here are my suggestions.
‘What can we do?’ they ask me. I think it’s because I often right about human rights, protest & the Holocaust.
So here are my suggestions.
This is a thread about rabbits. 🧵
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is a thread about rabbits. 🧵
And again MORE trash from Bruce Harrell et al.
Fight back against this crony capitalist effort to defeat Prop 1A. We already voted to approve social housing. Now vote to approve the funding source that will actually make it happen. Vote Yes to Prop 1A.
Vote - Again! Prop 1A.
4 days left!
Fight back against this crony capitalist effort to defeat Prop 1A. We already voted to approve social housing. Now vote to approve the funding source that will actually make it happen. Vote Yes to Prop 1A.
Vote - Again! Prop 1A.
4 days left!
I am so sick of finding Bruce Harrell's trash in my mailbox.
February 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And again MORE trash from Bruce Harrell et al.
Fight back against this crony capitalist effort to defeat Prop 1A. We already voted to approve social housing. Now vote to approve the funding source that will actually make it happen. Vote Yes to Prop 1A.
Vote - Again! Prop 1A.
4 days left!
Fight back against this crony capitalist effort to defeat Prop 1A. We already voted to approve social housing. Now vote to approve the funding source that will actually make it happen. Vote Yes to Prop 1A.
Vote - Again! Prop 1A.
4 days left!
What they had already heard:
More housing for more neighbors
More wonderful walkable neighborhoods
More Neighborhood Centers
More Regional and Urban Centers
More housing further back from arterials
How many times must we repeat ourselves?
More housing for more neighbors
More wonderful walkable neighborhoods
More Neighborhood Centers
More Regional and Urban Centers
More housing further back from arterials
How many times must we repeat ourselves?
February 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What they had already heard:
More housing for more neighbors
More wonderful walkable neighborhoods
More Neighborhood Centers
More Regional and Urban Centers
More housing further back from arterials
How many times must we repeat ourselves?
More housing for more neighbors
More wonderful walkable neighborhoods
More Neighborhood Centers
More Regional and Urban Centers
More housing further back from arterials
How many times must we repeat ourselves?
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Get your vote in for schools and permanently affordable housing! #BikeTheVote
February 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Get your vote in for schools and permanently affordable housing! #BikeTheVote
Quoting Moore: "And what troubles me is that when it became clear that there was less buy-in from the people that are going to live with this development on the ground..."
They aren't living with "development". They are living with neighbors.
They aren't living with "development". They are living with neighbors.
Housing advocates outnumbered opponents by a margin of 89 to 75 during a 5-hour public hearing on the One Seattle growth plan this week. Nevertheless, several councilmembers made it clear that they sided with slow-growth advocates.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/07/h...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/07/h...
February 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Quoting Moore: "And what troubles me is that when it became clear that there was less buy-in from the people that are going to live with this development on the ground..."
They aren't living with "development". They are living with neighbors.
They aren't living with "development". They are living with neighbors.
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If you have even a passing interest in Seattle's many transportation challenges and how transportation levy funds are spent, I recommend you apply for the Levy Oversight Board: seattle.granicus.com/boards/forms...
: Board Application
seattle.granicus.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you have even a passing interest in Seattle's many transportation challenges and how transportation levy funds are spent, I recommend you apply for the Levy Oversight Board: seattle.granicus.com/boards/forms...
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Looks like the Federal Highway Administration Complete Streets page is gone
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...
February 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Looks like the Federal Highway Administration Complete Streets page is gone
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...
highways.dot.gov/complete-str...