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Maris Zivarts

@emveezee.bsky.social

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Transit and safe streets advocate, dad, Seattle School Traffic Safety Committee, biker and fixer of bikes, working for the labor movement since a long time ago.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2h

This is a pretty dope vintage bike, if you're a sicko that's into that sort of thing for commuting/xbiking. Oversize, but lightweight true temper tubeset, thumbies, and weird 91 mm press fit bottom bracket.

clist ad for 1989 Fisher KH II for $200.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 5h

Quality work here.

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 19h

lol just now seeing this

Flyer reading:

California Ave is for CARS ONLY!

The best thing for our community is maximizing CAR STORAGE and CARS DRIVING on California! Join us in supporting cars over people!

The Farmer’s Market is already the WORST time of the week:
★ families strolling
★ kids playing
★ local businesses benefitting from all the foot traffic
DESPICABLE and frankly UN-AMERICAN!

And now there’s talk of extending that safe, quiet environment of community and human connection for the whole weekend! Who wants that? WE DON’T!

The ONLY thing our neighborhood’s most popular commercial corridor needs is TWO LANES of car storage and FOUR LANES of car traffic. There’s simply no room for anything else.

Together, we’ll keep California for CARS NOT PEOPLE!
Join us @ CarsOnlyCalifornia.com

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 6h

The was a chillitude and feeliness of falliness in the air this morning.

Rain commuter bike, anxiously awaiting the rain.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

But seems like it could be total freehub failure.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

Subscribed, because that's a hell of a racket.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

When I get bullied by a car coming the other way on a narrow street when I'm on my bike, I think what would they do if I were in a car? Well, in this case, the same thing it appears.

King 5 headline: Man arrested after ramming family's van in road rage attack
Two children, ages 7 and 10, were inside the vehicle when it caught fire; the family escaped without injuries.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

What I meant say is ebikes should be licenses and insured.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe it was intentional. Hard to tell these days.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

Oopsie on Renton Ave and Brandon.

Stop sign knocked down on an intersection.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

A sure sign of anti-bike concern trolling is an elected official who lives nowhere near the bike lane in question suddenly becoming *very* concerned about emergency response time, a thing she would never do if this were just normal bumper-to-bumper traffic on a street with no bike lane.

Post on X from Joann Ariola:

Joann Ariola NYC Council District 32
@JoannAriola32
Can somebody at
@NYC_DOT
please explain to me how this is even remotely acceptable? With the new parking lane, cars can't pull out of the way to let this ambulance pass.

When every second counts in an emergency, this could literally mean death for someone in a crisis. I have heard from so many people about how this Court Street redesign was a terrible idea, and this really seals the deal. Someone could be dead because of this.

Local Law 6 of 2025 - which I introduced, and was passed - mandates that local firehouses MUST be consulted before changes like this go into effect. Did the local firehouse sign off on this?

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

Just astonishing.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to Federal Way's traffic engineer explain why a speed limit reduction isn't likely on a street next to a school after a serious crash - on a street where drivers are exceeding the 35 mph limit.

"It was a tragic situation that occurred out there...but realistically it's an outlier."

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

After riding the 73.5 degree head toob Bridgestone RB2 all summer, the first few pedals strokes out of the saddle on the 71 degree gravel/rain bike are hell of an adjustment.

The Planet X London road by the community garden.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 1d

#gradient

sunset photo, yellow fading to periwinkle.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

Or the other way, however that worked.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

That's where the road runner paints a tunnel entrance for wile e coyote.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

More bikes in the rack this morning at the union hall in SoDo, despite it being in SoDo.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty dope "where the wild things are" restomod with custom paint/graphics on sale at the bikery. VO triple, shimano altus rear derailleur, gravelkings. Ready for r/xbiking.

seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/d/se...

clist ad for a 'where the wild things are' custom restomod for $790.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

Gotcha. I figured one or the other.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

Is this about parking?

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 2d

Goddang, in the US of A, that’s a juice coozy.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 4d

It looks so good. Tempting me to get one and maybe force myself to dress a little better, lol.

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 4d

The Timex reissues have been so good lately, and that one excellent.

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 4d

What’s your ride to work like?
#bicycle #biketowork

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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