It doesn't have to be. Let's get a 3 line going.

Examples of the policy changes SDOT refused for years but has now implemented totally, 100% because they were going to do it anyway: allowing SPS to install crosswalks at the main entrance for newly built schools before the school opened and allowing stop signs to be located in front of schools.

You definitely can make a difference but it's unbelievably exhausting. Each time that SDOT made a policy change we had advocated for for years SDOT staff made a point of telling us it had NOTHING to do with us, they were definitely going to do it anyway. Every time. That made me laugh.

My experience on the school traffic safety committee was that we would show up and push sensible improvements for years and the response from SDOT was 'no, no, no, never!' past the point of all sense or reason, and then as I was giving up it would turn around to 'yes, we did that yesterday'.

A free Honolulu stay (with dog snuggles!) is a sign from the universe that your family can do without you for a week. Ignore it at your peril.

So who is going to challenge Ferguson in the primary is what I want to know. His leadership is Republican lite, it's not what WA voters want.

We can absolutely bring the landmarks board to heel. It's established by City ordinance and can be amended/disbanded the same way. At a minimum council could pass an ordinance saying that the landmarks board dosn't get to veto safety improvements.

We need to remove the landmarks board as a final on what happens in our city. The status quo, where the landmarks board's decision overrules all safety standards and the Parks dept's normal processes makes no sense. We can change it.

This is a beautiful thread that gives that 'pastor' far too much credit. His post is a transparent contribution in the ongoing 'Christian' right's push to renormalize policing women's behavior and body shaming them in public. It's an assertion of masculine privilege and nothing more.

A dozen across 4 different cities in two decades: the exceptions that prove the rule.

True, but planning for cottage housing inside existing cities, even relatively low density cities, is inane. We have SO MANY cottage housing zoning sections lovingly crafted in every municipality in western WA, and yet somehow the actual cottage courts in existance are all 100 years old.

Ladies who are or have been pregnant 100% feel this. Also little kids. And older folks. Past time to stop assuming a 35 year old man as the default...

Also funny how cities will propose elaborate expensive pedestrian tunnels & overpasses to avoid narrowing an intersection and adding speed humps. This tunnel is really car infrastructure, not for peds.

Just saying I guess, even when you do ALL THE THINGS RIGHT places where kids are more likely to exist, such as near parks and schools, need to be designed so that even if a 2-year-old darts into the street THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN. Slow the fucking cars down.

Popping out the fasces above the door in gold is an interesting choice too.

Canada's point system for immigration means that going to college ther then working 2-3 years at your first professional job would make it easy to get a permanent residency that lasts your whole life long, regardless of whether you move back to the states for a while. Pretty sweet.

My high schooler is very interested in University of British Columbia and I gotta say, moving up to Canada doesn't sound like a terrible idea.