Jackson Teal
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Jackson Teal
@jbteal.bsky.social
· Dec 6
Absolute lunacy that Harrell and the rest of the Sound Transit board are going to blow the opportunity to make this the gateway into Seattle as a new transit hub with a 4th Ave & Jackson ST3 light rail station. A truly generational mistake
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Robot taxis are still taxis, and still don’t scale.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Robot taxis are still taxis, and still don’t scale.
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest » The Urbanist
# Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in ...
www.theurbanist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
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Everyone!! It’s very important that you know Seattle has a professional women’s hockey team and they’re about to play their very first game and this is so exciting!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Everyone!! It’s very important that you know Seattle has a professional women’s hockey team and they’re about to play their very first game and this is so exciting!!
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Mamdani played that senile motherfucker like a fiddle.
‘Fascist’? ‘Communist’? For an Afternoon, They Were Just 2 Guys From Queens.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Mamdani played that senile motherfucker like a fiddle.
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Better than totally empty space. Now add a daily hot dog, snack, and refreshment cart on the mezz. 😎
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Better than totally empty space. Now add a daily hot dog, snack, and refreshment cart on the mezz. 😎
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Hearing a rumor recently I hadn't been hearing a few weeks ago: transportation committee chair Alexis Mercedes Rinck?
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hearing a rumor recently I hadn't been hearing a few weeks ago: transportation committee chair Alexis Mercedes Rinck?
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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YES! YES!
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
YES! YES!
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One week on @theurbanist.org:
-Two original Sound Transit stories
-Two fully reported Seattle budget stories
-Dispatches from both Clyde Hill & Kirkland
-One story about Katie Wilson's transition team
And a book review!
I know I'm biased, but I really think we punch above our weight.
-Two original Sound Transit stories
-Two fully reported Seattle budget stories
-Dispatches from both Clyde Hill & Kirkland
-One story about Katie Wilson's transition team
And a book review!
I know I'm biased, but I really think we punch above our weight.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One week on @theurbanist.org:
-Two original Sound Transit stories
-Two fully reported Seattle budget stories
-Dispatches from both Clyde Hill & Kirkland
-One story about Katie Wilson's transition team
And a book review!
I know I'm biased, but I really think we punch above our weight.
-Two original Sound Transit stories
-Two fully reported Seattle budget stories
-Dispatches from both Clyde Hill & Kirkland
-One story about Katie Wilson's transition team
And a book review!
I know I'm biased, but I really think we punch above our weight.
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We can't even build streets that look like the "before" image...
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We can't even build streets that look like the "before" image...
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If SDOT took their entire $8 million budget for Low Pollution Neighborhoods and just used it to figure out how to make retractable bollards work, that would be worth it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If SDOT took their entire $8 million budget for Low Pollution Neighborhoods and just used it to figure out how to make retractable bollards work, that would be worth it.
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This Chicago teen (and our guest last week) picked up biking to get to high school, and through a youth program at Blackstone Bikes, got his own bike and learned how to fix it!
Full video linked below 👇
Full video linked below 👇
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This Chicago teen (and our guest last week) picked up biking to get to high school, and through a youth program at Blackstone Bikes, got his own bike and learned how to fix it!
Full video linked below 👇
Full video linked below 👇
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Strauss and Hollingsworth need to stop being noncommittal spineless people. There were 5ish major divisive topics and they abstained from 2 of them, both ending 6-1-2 with Rinck against. They are elected to vote on this stuff especially when it's divisive.
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Strauss and Hollingsworth need to stop being noncommittal spineless people. There were 5ish major divisive topics and they abstained from 2 of them, both ending 6-1-2 with Rinck against. They are elected to vote on this stuff especially when it's divisive.
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Even if the bridge lasts 20 years that’s $9,000 per vehicle for those 20 years. What a complete waste of money. If this were a transit project or bike lane it would get so much scrutiny but car projects never do and when you point it out the defense is “well it’s a jobs program”
$5B to rebuild a bridge that carried 30,000 AADT, and has three Interstate alternative routes, doesn't seem like a wise investment.
LUNCH LINKS 11/18/25 (thanks Cloudflare): Baltimore Key Bridge rebuild likely to cost more than double initial estimates. Mold among issues residents experience in Alexandria public housing. Key endorsements secured for WMATA funding plan.
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Even if the bridge lasts 20 years that’s $9,000 per vehicle for those 20 years. What a complete waste of money. If this were a transit project or bike lane it would get so much scrutiny but car projects never do and when you point it out the defense is “well it’s a jobs program”
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A person as thoughtful and kind as Katie having won a major election is so awesome. Having a Mayor who rents, who doesn't drive, who's a parent, who has worked in customer service, and who actually *likes* people-as-a-group is refreshing. Thank you for running!
I cannot wait for what comes next.
I cannot wait for what comes next.
After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A person as thoughtful and kind as Katie having won a major election is so awesome. Having a Mayor who rents, who doesn't drive, who's a parent, who has worked in customer service, and who actually *likes* people-as-a-group is refreshing. Thank you for running!
I cannot wait for what comes next.
I cannot wait for what comes next.
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Throwback to the time that The Urbanist sent Katie Wilson to cover the grand opening of a Belltown highrise, which featured the hoisting of a $1.6 million supercar to the building's roof. But how people cover child care costs is a scandal, am I right?
www.theurbanist.org/2024/05/19/h...
www.theurbanist.org/2024/05/19/h...
Op-Ed: Hoisting ‘Supercar’ 47 Stories Inaugurates Condo Opening, New Gilded Age » The Urbanist
# A million-dollar McLaren Elva briefly graced the 47th floor rooftop next to the jacuzzi to promote the
www.theurbanist.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Throwback to the time that The Urbanist sent Katie Wilson to cover the grand opening of a Belltown highrise, which featured the hoisting of a $1.6 million supercar to the building's roof. But how people cover child care costs is a scandal, am I right?
www.theurbanist.org/2024/05/19/h...
www.theurbanist.org/2024/05/19/h...
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We really need to stop being cowards and dream bigger for our public realms.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We really need to stop being cowards and dream bigger for our public realms.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
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We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
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uhhh yes please come for the dangerous and uneccesary 0-60mph times
China has banned calling your car self-driving when it isn't, a ban on slick door handles that don't work in emergencies is in the works, and now it's coming for rapid 0-60 times, as it seeks to destroy every last one of Tesla's "innovations."
carnewschina.com/2025/11/13/c...
carnewschina.com/2025/11/13/c...
China proposes 5-second 0-100 km/h acceleration limit on vehicles to enhance road safety
China moves to curb "too fast" cars with new 5-second acceleration requirement.
carnewschina.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
uhhh yes please come for the dangerous and uneccesary 0-60mph times
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![BUSINESSSMAN: Fellow business leaders, for the first time in 12 years we're locked out of the mayor's office. However.
-We sent a deep cover operative into the Transit Riders Union to expose our new mayor’s hidden agenda. Meet Kyle.
KYLE: For 6 months I lived on a barista's wages in a market-rate apartment. I traveled only by bike or bus.
-In that time the most important thing I learned was this:
-You people made the city into a meatgrinder for the working class and you must be stopped
[businesspeople aghast]
[two men grab Kyle by the arms as he struggles]
-Oh my god they flipped Kyle!
-Get him out of here!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreibpcytzm7jwvyaeson5ywvej7dgxxnt3brviwvzqmlrpat2jrj4bi@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
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We tried taxing rich people and it did nothing except create a thriving economy that built the strongest middle class the country has ever had.
Is THAT really something you want?
Is THAT really something you want?
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We tried taxing rich people and it did nothing except create a thriving economy that built the strongest middle class the country has ever had.
Is THAT really something you want?
Is THAT really something you want?