Absolutely wild to me that you can leave a car with no license plates on the street in Seattle for almost 6 months straight, and the city won't send anyone to do anything about it. This is 50 yards from an RPZ that's patrolled every day, not off in the boonies.

I'm curious if anyone has ideas for what the city could do with this small triangle of land at MLK and Dawson in Columbia City. It's a tough spot -- not great as green space because it's right next to MLK, and a frequent dumping ground for trash, old furniture and mattresses. What could it become?

We get a lot of different birds in our backyard fountain near Hitt's Hill, but this is the first time I've seen a hawk there. Look at this beautiful Cooper's hawk! It just perched there for a good five minutes while we watched from behind the window.

Yes, I think you're right. I was looking at the Census data from the ACS and it shows an increase in both 1-car and no-car occupied housing units, and a decrease in 2-car and 3-or-more-car units. (The car-free estimate is back under 20% for 2024.). I made a quick visualization to summarize.

There's now razor wire protruding into the sidewalk on MLK near Hudson. This is bad enough during daylight but remarkably dangerous in the dark. The building where it's installed is looooong vacant (King Audio) and I don't know who to contact. What city department would potentially help?

The Seattle Transportation Plan shows S Orcas St between Beacon and MLK as a future Bike+ Arterial. It's currently being repaved, but it does not appear to be getting any bike upgrades (and did not have any pre-existing bike lanes). Why not add the bike facilities now, during the major repaving?

How are we going to manage two line interlining when we can't go a single week without a significant delay on the light rail spine? It really feels like reliability has been regressing, not improving.

I was told by SPD that they don't have the resources to deal with abandoned or stolen and ditched vehicles in South Seattle. As a result, they sit on the street for months. Did you lose your Mercedes a month ago?

If I'd called about this in Laurelhurst, I would have gotten a different response.

Any suggestions for dealing with "blackberry lots" in the Rainier Valley? Abandoned properties that have been taken over by invasives+trash, blocking the sidewalk in some cases. No city department wants to help, and we all suffer. I voluntarily do weed/garbage control on 2, but can't do them all.

Parking enforcement is broken. I reported an abandoned vehicle near my house 2+ months ago. We get more than our share of abandoned cars around here. Today, SPD closed the request without action: "Closed due to delay in response time to complaint because of short staffing." The vehicle's still there

Huge thank you to the anonymous staffer at the Seattle DSA who booked The Softies for a free concert on Bell St yesterday. What a treat to see this legendary twee band playing outside in the middle of a street closed to cars!

So bummed that Mt Baker Beach is closed (indefinitely?) right in the middle of peak season and especially on a Bicycle Weekend. I really hope they're able to reopen the beach access soon, even if the bathroom/lifeguard structure is a total loss.

I used to regularly eat at a small restaurant in south Philadelphia, Carmen's Country Kitchen, where the owner seated guests in the bed of her pickup parked out front. Hard to find a good photo of the setup since it's been closed for over a decade, but here's the best one I could find via google

Is there a concept image or rendering available showing where specifically the pedestrian gates will be installed? I'm guessing they'll be where I've drawn the red line in this photo of Columbia City Station, with one gate facing each side of MLK?

Me, to SDOT: every single day, this sidewalk near my house, just off Rainier, is blocked by parked cars in an illegal, informal angle parking zone. SPD hasn't helped despite repeated requests. Can we get some parking signs or curbstops please?

SDOT: best we can do is nothing.

SPD: <crickets>

To be clear, I wasn't complaining about having to stand -- I often stand on the train by choice just because I sit a lot of the day. I was asking about why ST allows operators to arbitrarily rope off a whole section of the train during rush hour. I've seen drugs+smoking on Link but this is too much.

Several times I've been on crowded light rail trains where the elevated seating area next to the driver compartment has been fenced off for no apparent reason -- no spill, no biohazard, etc. This eliminates 16 seats + standing area. I'm disappointed to learn from ST that this is allowed per policy.

A bunch of my neighbors have collectively decided to turn this right of way into angle parking, which means they block the (already narrow) sidewalk. Every damn day. If anyone has a source for some free, very large rocks, hit me up.

Five and a half months later (!), we are still waiting on the results of an SDOT Director's Review of the issued street-use permit for the scaled-down, quarter-of-a-block Columbia City Patio on S Ferdinand St. I want to stress that we are talking about four outdoor tables and movable partitions.