Jeff
@jefft.bsky.social
Seattle-based. Interested in housing. Really more of a reply guy than a poster, but the good kind of reply guy.
We devote tons of resources (manpower and the resource of limited traffic light timing) to the Sisyphean goal of hurrying more space-greedy SOVs toward I-5 ramps. Let's reallocate it to the much higher payoff of helping full buses make full use of the lanes that already exist.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We devote tons of resources (manpower and the resource of limited traffic light timing) to the Sisyphean goal of hurrying more space-greedy SOVs toward I-5 ramps. Let's reallocate it to the much higher payoff of helping full buses make full use of the lanes that already exist.
The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like the I-5 SB ramp near Denny. In purple: traffic cops (star) and lights (circle) conspire to allocate the majority of ramp throughput to cars (in red) coming downhill on Boren and Denny, two routes with no bus congestion, at the expense of cars on EB Denny (yellow) and Stewart, blocking buses.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Like the I-5 SB ramp near Denny. In purple: traffic cops (star) and lights (circle) conspire to allocate the majority of ramp throughput to cars (in red) coming downhill on Boren and Denny, two routes with no bus congestion, at the expense of cars on EB Denny (yellow) and Stewart, blocking buses.
California is wild to me.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
California is wild to me.
And this is not remotely accounted for in any measures of real income growth I've seen. Mortgage interest and home prices are excluded. The closest proxy is owner's equivalent rent, which is only up 30% since the pandemic.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And this is not remotely accounted for in any measures of real income growth I've seen. Mortgage interest and home prices are excluded. The closest proxy is owner's equivalent rent, which is only up 30% since the pandemic.
Do I count 4 lights in a row that are all out?
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Do I count 4 lights in a row that are all out?
Aaand the reality: she got just under 56%, of today's 38,277 ballots that marked one of the two, putting her into the lead by just 91!
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Aaand the reality: she got just under 56%, of today's 38,277 ballots that marked one of the two, putting her into the lead by just 91!
Here's my made-up spreadsheet; gonna pre-register my prediction that Wilson gets somewhere between 56 and 60%, but this is why, by my math, 56% of today's drop is insufficient to take the lead. But maybe we are talking about slightly different things!
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Here's my made-up spreadsheet; gonna pre-register my prediction that Wilson gets somewhere between 56 and 60%, but this is why, by my math, 56% of today's drop is insufficient to take the lead. But maybe we are talking about slightly different things!
The nonsensical treatment of northern WS's big 3 elementaries continues to baffle me.
Lafayette: big and growing. Close it!
Alki: small and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Genesee Hill: medium and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Lafayette: big and growing. Close it!
Alki: small and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Genesee Hill: medium and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The nonsensical treatment of northern WS's big 3 elementaries continues to baffle me.
Lafayette: big and growing. Close it!
Alki: small and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Genesee Hill: medium and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Lafayette: big and growing. Close it!
Alki: small and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Genesee Hill: medium and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
Go here, fill in 3 of the fields. If your signature has been verified and you're counted, the next screen should look nice and green like the second screenshot.
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Go here, fill in 3 of the fields. If your signature has been verified and you're counted, the next screen should look nice and green like the second screenshot.
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Wait so she tanked Chin's campaign by leaking his emails, and then went on to torpedo the mayoralty of the winner by leaking his racist texts?
Incredible true chaotic neutral character.
Incredible true chaotic neutral character.
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wait so she tanked Chin's campaign by leaking his emails, and then went on to torpedo the mayoralty of the winner by leaking his racist texts?
Incredible true chaotic neutral character.
Incredible true chaotic neutral character.
Yeah my point was just that anecdotes can cut both ways.
Anyways, Jesus, yeah that price is up 30% since January.
P.s. it's called the Fed, not the FED.
Anyways, Jesus, yeah that price is up 30% since January.
P.s. it's called the Fed, not the FED.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yeah my point was just that anecdotes can cut both ways.
Anyways, Jesus, yeah that price is up 30% since January.
P.s. it's called the Fed, not the FED.
Anyways, Jesus, yeah that price is up 30% since January.
P.s. it's called the Fed, not the FED.
Ahh wait is it 45,000 or 50,000? The latter makes Wilson a slight favorite. Former would make it a tossup, IMHO.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Ahh wait is it 45,000 or 50,000? The latter makes Wilson a slight favorite. Former would make it a tossup, IMHO.
It blows my mind that they just don't install crossing arms to lower across the sidewalk paths like they do on the roadway. WTF?
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It blows my mind that they just don't install crossing arms to lower across the sidewalk paths like they do on the roadway. WTF?
Where's the surge? The intraday partial rebound?
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Where's the surge? The intraday partial rebound?
I hope they're planning for some good noise-proofing for the 30,000 new homes directly in the flight landing approach of London City Airport.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I hope they're planning for some good noise-proofing for the 30,000 new homes directly in the flight landing approach of London City Airport.
Ok now I'm dying to know how Seattle is supposed to lose this one 34-31 like the Google AI promised me this highlight reel would show.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Ok now I'm dying to know how Seattle is supposed to lose this one 34-31 like the Google AI promised me this highlight reel would show.
Do you have your gifs stored somewhere?
I'm watching the highlights now and sitting here wondering how Seattle found a way to lose this from here:
I'm watching the highlights now and sitting here wondering how Seattle found a way to lose this from here:
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Do you have your gifs stored somewhere?
I'm watching the highlights now and sitting here wondering how Seattle found a way to lose this from here:
I'm watching the highlights now and sitting here wondering how Seattle found a way to lose this from here:
Ehh this lady seems like the archetype of that person and still doesn't seem to view the sweeps as a success.
Of course she keeps doing it, ostensibly to help the city collect better data (?) but seemingly also just for kicks/vengeance.
Of course she keeps doing it, ostensibly to help the city collect better data (?) but seemingly also just for kicks/vengeance.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Ehh this lady seems like the archetype of that person and still doesn't seem to view the sweeps as a success.
Of course she keeps doing it, ostensibly to help the city collect better data (?) but seemingly also just for kicks/vengeance.
Of course she keeps doing it, ostensibly to help the city collect better data (?) but seemingly also just for kicks/vengeance.
I didn't even realize we had direct flights to Munich. The Condor route to Frankfurt is like a black hole for Seattle-Germany itineraries because it's so absurdly much cheaper.
We flew to Frankfurt for vaccines in 2022 and got all 4 of us there, even paying extra to pick seats, for like $1800.
We flew to Frankfurt for vaccines in 2022 and got all 4 of us there, even paying extra to pick seats, for like $1800.
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I didn't even realize we had direct flights to Munich. The Condor route to Frankfurt is like a black hole for Seattle-Germany itineraries because it's so absurdly much cheaper.
We flew to Frankfurt for vaccines in 2022 and got all 4 of us there, even paying extra to pick seats, for like $1800.
We flew to Frankfurt for vaccines in 2022 and got all 4 of us there, even paying extra to pick seats, for like $1800.
My sophisticated probabilistic analysis suggests it's about a coin toss whether all 7 come off as planned.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My sophisticated probabilistic analysis suggests it's about a coin toss whether all 7 come off as planned.
The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs.
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs.
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
Yeah I'm curious which ones Nick is objecting to.
The one example I encounter and never use on my bike commute is: they just added hard barriers to the lanes in both directions around this corner. The turn radius is so insanely tight on the inside corner I worry about sliding out.
The one example I encounter and never use on my bike commute is: they just added hard barriers to the lanes in both directions around this corner. The turn radius is so insanely tight on the inside corner I worry about sliding out.
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Yeah I'm curious which ones Nick is objecting to.
The one example I encounter and never use on my bike commute is: they just added hard barriers to the lanes in both directions around this corner. The turn radius is so insanely tight on the inside corner I worry about sliding out.
The one example I encounter and never use on my bike commute is: they just added hard barriers to the lanes in both directions around this corner. The turn radius is so insanely tight on the inside corner I worry about sliding out.
"This is nothing compared to the time Rs eked out a 2-point win in 2021, because that win foreshadowed how Dems would struggle in 2024 and beyond."
What struggles have they faced in elections "beyond" 2024, Nate? You're writing NOW about several decisive wins that rolled back Trump's gains!!
What struggles have they faced in elections "beyond" 2024, Nate? You're writing NOW about several decisive wins that rolled back Trump's gains!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"This is nothing compared to the time Rs eked out a 2-point win in 2021, because that win foreshadowed how Dems would struggle in 2024 and beyond."
What struggles have they faced in elections "beyond" 2024, Nate? You're writing NOW about several decisive wins that rolled back Trump's gains!!
What struggles have they faced in elections "beyond" 2024, Nate? You're writing NOW about several decisive wins that rolled back Trump's gains!!