@sobacase.bsky.social
Car-free by choice, Seattle based, creator of CH farmers market 🐔 mascot Henrietta, WSDOT active transportation as the day job
@seattledot.bsky.social is the west bound Roy bike signal at Queen Anne detection dependent?
July 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
@seattledot.bsky.social is the west bound Roy bike signal at Queen Anne detection dependent?
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Today is the *last day* to apply for e-bike rebates through WSDOT!
Income-qualifying households could receive as much as $1,200 off an e-bike purchase. The form closes today, so get in your application while you still can!
Income-qualifying households could receive as much as $1,200 off an e-bike purchase. The form closes today, so get in your application while you still can!
WE-Bike WSDOT E-Bike Rebate Program
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) e-bike instant rebate program demonstrates the commitment Washington state has towards active transportation by assisting its residents in…
ebikeswsdot.aptim.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today is the *last day* to apply for e-bike rebates through WSDOT!
Income-qualifying households could receive as much as $1,200 off an e-bike purchase. The form closes today, so get in your application while you still can!
Income-qualifying households could receive as much as $1,200 off an e-bike purchase. The form closes today, so get in your application while you still can!
Cackling about how the hotel has fully taken advantage of sdot bike construction for their renovation benefit
April 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Cackling about how the hotel has fully taken advantage of sdot bike construction for their renovation benefit
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This new study of transport poverty gives further support to the reverse causality hypothesis, which says that your travel situation comes first and your attitudes to travel are shaped by this. Implies: don't try to change everyone's mind first, change the game
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Travelling in the margins: Impacts of transport poverty on travel attitudes and behaviours
Transportation researchers have long used social-psychological theories to understand the impacts of travel attitudes on travel behaviour, especially …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This new study of transport poverty gives further support to the reverse causality hypothesis, which says that your travel situation comes first and your attitudes to travel are shaped by this. Implies: don't try to change everyone's mind first, change the game
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There's a reason I rarely wander up the hill and choose to join a gym in a different neighborhood, bunch of entitled nonsense to deal with as neighbors
Today at the Seattle Council Comp Plan committee: Queen Anne residents pushing against additional density in their neighborhood via the cautionary tale of...Ballard.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There's a reason I rarely wander up the hill and choose to join a gym in a different neighborhood, bunch of entitled nonsense to deal with as neighbors
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Today at the Seattle Council Comp Plan committee: Queen Anne residents pushing against additional density in their neighborhood via the cautionary tale of...Ballard.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today at the Seattle Council Comp Plan committee: Queen Anne residents pushing against additional density in their neighborhood via the cautionary tale of...Ballard.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
"Please do not Ballardize Queen Anne Hill," one woman says after describing how the Ballard was ruined by renters.
Love the sidewalk shaving work order that happened around Seattle Center today - thanks y'all!
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Love the sidewalk shaving work order that happened around Seattle Center today - thanks y'all!
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Join us next week April 17th at 2 p.m E.T. as we explore the transformative power of walkability and its role in revitalizing rural communities. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from @MainStreetAmerica and local campions —reserve your spot now at buff.ly/gnrFuik.
April 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join us next week April 17th at 2 p.m E.T. as we explore the transformative power of walkability and its role in revitalizing rural communities. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from @MainStreetAmerica and local campions —reserve your spot now at buff.ly/gnrFuik.
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WSDOT News: E-Bike rebate voucher program opens this week; funded with Climate Commitment Act $$. wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2...
#WSDOTActive #WABikes #BikeWA #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeSky #Bikes4Climate
#WSDOTActive #WABikes #BikeWA #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeSky #Bikes4Climate
Applications for e-bike rebates open April 9 | WSDOT
OLYMPIA – Washingtonians are a crucial step closer to applying for e-bike rebates. The Washington State Department of Transportation has launched its WE-Bike program website. A link to apply for a reb...
wsdot.wa.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WSDOT News: E-Bike rebate voucher program opens this week; funded with Climate Commitment Act $$. wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2...
#WSDOTActive #WABikes #BikeWA #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeSky #Bikes4Climate
#WSDOTActive #WABikes #BikeWA #EBikes #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeEverywhere #BikeSky #Bikes4Climate
There's a reason why I bought a HSD earlier this year youtu.be/EtxTT2ACSz8?...
NEW Tern GSD Gen 3 Cargo Bike Review: 9 key things to know
YouTube video by Bike Shop Girl
youtu.be
March 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
There's a reason why I bought a HSD earlier this year youtu.be/EtxTT2ACSz8?...
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JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS
Thinking of when he had to leave a fundraiser last year bc he didn't clear his security team w the venue and he stormed out all grumpy. Totally going to have the avg riders needs at heart....
Dow Constantine officially named as Sound Transit’s CEO nominee
Dow Constantine officially named as Sound Transit’s CEO nominee
The transit board opted to choose a familiar colleague who could navigate Seattle politics, rather than choose a CEO from an outside transit agency.
www.seattletimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Thinking of when he had to leave a fundraiser last year bc he didn't clear his security team w the venue and he stormed out all grumpy. Totally going to have the avg riders needs at heart....
Seriously cool project
This neat interactive map lets you explore intersections all over Oregon that have pedestrian push-buttons. Check out a walkthrough of our latest #BikePedPortal dashboard:
youtu.be/ouU8R9zkP_8
Find the dashboard, and more info about the research behind it, at: trec.pdx.edu/news/using-e...
youtu.be/ouU8R9zkP_8
Find the dashboard, and more info about the research behind it, at: trec.pdx.edu/news/using-e...
BikePed Portal Push-Button Dashboard
YouTube video by Transportation Research & Education Center at PSU
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Seriously cool project
Right WA more calls today! 202-224-3441
Adding Senator Cantwell to the No Position category based on what office is telling constituents. They appear to have clear instructions - No on CR, but undecided on Cloture. talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-clotu...
Senate Cloture Vote Tally
On the Record and Clear Voting No on Cloture Sen. Warner (VA):...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Right WA more calls today! 202-224-3441
Yo WA @cantwell.senate.gov is on the list, we need to flood the invox
If you aren't able to make it to the Senate in person today, you can still make a big difference by making calls to senators!
Please share widely, especially with people not in DC. Here are talking points and priority offices (from @freedcproject.bsky.social)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please share widely, especially with people not in DC. Here are talking points and priority offices (from @freedcproject.bsky.social)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Congress: Stay out of DC’s Budget // Call Script
Congress: Stay out of DC’s Budget Call Script Thursday March 13, 2025 Contents Priority Members to Call: Thursday March 13 1 Call Script for DC Residents 2 Call Script for Allies Outside DC 3 Prior...
docs.google.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yo WA @cantwell.senate.gov is on the list, we need to flood the invox
Finding efficiencies in food bank payments is not the call right now
February 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Finding efficiencies in food bank payments is not the call right now
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I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines
(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)
(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)
Do Not Obey In Advance: A Moral Crisis in Arts Funding
February energy is the NEA falling apart, a story about my mother, and learning to tell the difference between being trapped and just being scared.
grantwriting-with-claire-willett.ghost.io
February 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines
(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)
(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)
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Like the idea of bikeways connecting to/through towns? @wsdot.wa.gov draft report on what it would take to develop statewide "cycle highways" system. H/T to Utah for staffing up to create trails network.
engage.wsdot.wa.gov/cycle-highwa...
#trails #RailTrails #transportation #BikeSky
engage.wsdot.wa.gov/cycle-highwa...
#trails #RailTrails #transportation #BikeSky
Cycle Highways Action Plan | WSDOT online open houses
Online open houses for WSDOT projects and studies
engage.wsdot.wa.gov
February 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Like the idea of bikeways connecting to/through towns? @wsdot.wa.gov draft report on what it would take to develop statewide "cycle highways" system. H/T to Utah for staffing up to create trails network.
engage.wsdot.wa.gov/cycle-highwa...
#trails #RailTrails #transportation #BikeSky
engage.wsdot.wa.gov/cycle-highwa...
#trails #RailTrails #transportation #BikeSky
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WANTED: research, practical experience, real-world examples of road reallocation (diet or buffet), how emergency response factored in or was affected. I'll link what I find.
#RoadSafety #CompleteStreets #transportation #infrastructure #VisionZero #Emergency #fire #ambulance
#RoadSafety #CompleteStreets #transportation #infrastructure #VisionZero #Emergency #fire #ambulance
February 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
WANTED: research, practical experience, real-world examples of road reallocation (diet or buffet), how emergency response factored in or was affected. I'll link what I find.
#RoadSafety #CompleteStreets #transportation #infrastructure #VisionZero #Emergency #fire #ambulance
#RoadSafety #CompleteStreets #transportation #infrastructure #VisionZero #Emergency #fire #ambulance
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Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us.
Our latest is a must-read from @www.bugbeardispatch.com on the laundering of Christian nationalism in the Trump 2.0 era.
Our latest is a must-read from @www.bugbeardispatch.com on the laundering of Christian nationalism in the Trump 2.0 era.
Haidt Crimes: On Moral Foundations Theory and the Normalization of Fascism
Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us.
theflytrap.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us.
Our latest is a must-read from @www.bugbeardispatch.com on the laundering of Christian nationalism in the Trump 2.0 era.
Our latest is a must-read from @www.bugbeardispatch.com on the laundering of Christian nationalism in the Trump 2.0 era.
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USDOT is proposing to prioritize areas with high marriage & birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
February 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
USDOT is proposing to prioritize areas with high marriage & birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Yep, people do bike in the snow!
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Yep, people do bike in the snow!