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These vehicles should not be street legal in cities.

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Was looking forward to trying the completed segment of the Pike St bike lane.

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This is a grass tramway appreciation account. 🚃 🌱

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Just can’t get over this graph.

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Another great con is over.

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“Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions” and “will free up more than $100 million in funding…to enhancing the [Denver’s] bus rapid transit network and making the I-25 corridor safer…particularly for people outside cars.” @StreetsblogUSA

Mile-High City Halts Two Highway Expansions — And Gives the Money to Transit Instead — Streetsblog...

Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions, citing a new climate rule that advocates say should be a model for communities across America.

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Welcome to urbanism, Taylor. 😎

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The Seattle Times is really on a kick to keep people houseless and its not just the editorial board.

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This may be one of Seattle’s coolest infill projects.

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In Phinney Ridge, a land use application for a 6-story apartment building with 24 homes and 0 car parking has been approved.

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11 months

Do your part to pedestrianize Pike Place. Always walk in the street. Assert your rights. Be the ban that bans cars.

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1 year

NEW: @Amtrak_Cascades announces an increase of service. 16 daily roundtrips will operate between Seattle and Portland starting May 1st offering hourly service between 6am and 10pm seven days a week. 🚆

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Amtrak Cascades is going to get brand new trains that can go 125 mph but will be limited to 79 mph because of track conditions.

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NEW: Pike Place will permanently become a pedestrianized street starting June 4th, Councilmember Andrew Lewis will formally announce later today. The pedestrian zone will stretch from 1st Avenue to Western Avenue.

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It’s incredible how fragile and threatened motorists are by the existence of public transportation.

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3 years

Seattle took down a massive elevated highway on the waterfront only to wind up building a 10-lane surface highway.

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1 year

Mmmm. That grassy tram. 🚃 🌱

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KOMO: Everyone wants to leave Seattle. Census Bureau: The City of Seattle grows another 17,749 in 2022 and is fastest-growing big city in the US.

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The pyramid 🚶‍♀️🧑‍🦽👨‍🦯🚶👩‍🦯👨‍🦽🚶‍♀️ 🚴 🛴 🚴‍♂️ 🛴🚴‍♀️ 🚌 🚆 ⛴ 🚊 🚛 🚕 🚚 🚙 🚗 ✈️

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Streetcars with grass growing around the tracks and surrounded by trees: it’s a real thing and enchanting. #BerlinUrbanism

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A thing nearly unheard of in American transit: a welcoming warm waiting transit shelter. #ZurichUrbanism

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2 years

Car parking mandates are totally wild.

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5 months

Never forget.

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2 years

“[Musk] admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced even though he had no intention of pursuing it was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding.”

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Don’t know how this passed Seattle design review, but it’s a masterpiece!

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3 years

So, we did a thing.

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@wsdot_traffic Build and run the trains.

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No Context Brits

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Name a bigger downgrade.

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Washington should be running trains from there every 30 minutes between Portland and Vancouver, BC and every 15 minutes between Olympia and Stanwood. 🚆 🚆 🚆 🚆

Robert Cruickshank

@cruickshank

10 months

Ah, King Street Station. Such a great gateway to Seattle! Heading to PDX on @Amtrak_Cascades this evening.

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11 months

Do your part. Walk in the street. Be the car ban. 😎

Senator Joe Nguyen

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11 months

This street is technically still open for cars…

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Dense cities fight climate change. Legalize and facilitate them. #EarthDay

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Build it. 😎

WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan B.C.-Seattle-Portland bullet train

A potential high-speed rail route, of about 350 miles, could bring the nation's fastest trains to the Pacific Northwest.

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The U District is seeing a massive highrise boom. That's what happens when you get a light rail station and lift the lid on zoning.

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What a sticker. 🚲

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We need hourly trains between Portland-Seattle-Vancouver, BC yesterday. 🚆

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In Downtown Seattle, a land use application for a 54-story apartment building with 650 homes and retail has been approved.

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6 months

This you?

FLORIDA DOT

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FDOT is disappointed to see this rule take effect. Despite receiving 1000s of concerned comments on the proposed rule, FHWA is moving forward & ignoring legitimate concerns from states.

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It’s completely wild that we built freeways in our cities and just freely let people speed cars through them. #Seattle #I5

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In Capitol Hill, a land use application for an 8-story apartment building with 75 homes and 0 car parking has been approved. The project is 4 blocks from the subway station.

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2 years

Your move, Seattle.

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

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As of today these infernal machines are officially illegal in Washington DC. Happy New Year!

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BREAKING: @Amtrak announces restoration of @Amtrak_Cascades 🚆 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 service between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia on September 26th. @wsdot @OregonDOT

Amtrak Cascades Resumes Service to Vancouver, BC - Amtrak Media

WASHINGTON – Amtrak, in conjunction with WSDOT, ODOT, VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail), and other federal agencies, will resume Amtrak Cascades service to

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A generational mistake. It’s time to tear it out.

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#OnThisDay in 1969, Interstate 5 was completed in Washington.

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Just admiring Seattle’s expanded waterfront surface highway. 🛣

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3 years

Get yourself city leaders that will keep cars out of the bus lane!

Brent Toderian

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3 years

How do you increase transit ridership? Like this. #BRT #busonlylanes

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It’s kinda wild that Seattle’s only true rapid transit system is at the city’s airport and manages to feature frequencies every ~4 minutes, full automation, cross-platform transfers, platforms barriers, very wide platforms, and high quality digital information signs.

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2 years

Spotted in Bellevue: a protected, separated bike lane! 😮 🚲

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BREAKING 🚆 🇺🇸 🤝 🇨🇦: “WSDOT and ODOT are pleased to share that [ @Amtrak_Cascades ] train service between Seattle and Vancouver, BC now will resume in September 2022. Earlier plans called for a December return to Canada, but Amtrak was able to advance the schedule.”

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It’s bonkers that this space isn’t some active retail space at Westlake Station.

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@wsdot_traffic

Induced demand - Wikipedia

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11 months

It doesn’t have to be this way. That tram could be speeding along free and clear of cars. Struck trams is merely a policy choice.

Juan Rodriguez

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8.5 minute timelapse of the Seattle Streetcar getting bogged down by traffic in what is a regular occurrence if you depend on riding it home after work in SLU. This line could shine if it had ROW all the way through. I even passed it walking 10 minutes later at intersection...

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2 years

It’s so curious how all those fancy renders of Seattle’s new waterfront highway show endless greenery and tree canopy.

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5 years

SAWANT ELECTION UPDATE: Kshama has passed Egan in today's first drop. And her margin likely only increases from here on out. She's up 1.4 points now. What a comeback, @VoteSawant !

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2 years

So at what point does KOMO lose its broadcasting license?

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A bill to require cities and towns to allow cafés in any zone permitting residential uses has been filed in #Waleg .

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2 years

Beats a Tesla any day.

Daniel Moser - [email protected]

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2 years

👀 There are trains, and then there are Swiss trains🇨🇭 🎥 @seatsixtyone

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America rather spite itself than house people.

Lakewood cut down Town Square trees to deter homeless

Lakewood mayor said the decision was made after a recommendation from the Police Department which was triggered by numerous complaints from residents.

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10 months

You love to see it. 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️ > 🚗🚙

SDOT Traffic

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Pedestrians walking along 1st Ave between S Royal Brougham Way and S King St blocking NB lanes. Use alternative routes and use caution.

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Sound Transit has quietly put out a document on the Everett Link Extension options. It details hundreds of unnecessary property acquisitions, including leveling dozens of businesses and buildings in Downtown Everett.

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2 years

We believe the happiest trams are ones that get to graze on grass along their journey. ☺️

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3 years

On University of Washington Station platforms, you can see signs that indicate light rail vehicles cannot operate at 25mph under the University of Washington campus; vehicles must go higher or lower to avoid electromagnetism interference with UW sciences. 🚊 #Link21

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3 years

“We can’t build sidewalks because it’s too expensive.”

push the needle

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we cant build high speed rail because its too expensive

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“[Musk] admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced even though he had no intention of pursuing it was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding.”

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4 years

BREAKING: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is implementing an emergency moratorium on residential evictions in the city.

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2 years

Today, single-family zoning is no more in California.

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Zillow says there are 100 listings for detached single-family homes in the entire City of Seattle priced at or below $850,000. 100. In a city of 737,000 people.

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Breaking KOMO’s heart.

Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"

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Seattle really is dying 🤣

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Rain isn’t why people don’t bike; infrastructure or lack thereof is.

Dirk Janssen🇳🇱🇺🇸

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It rains 150 days a year in the Netherlands, we bike 365. #cycling #netherland

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Pedestrianize it. #PikePlaceMarket

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This should be legal around every single Link station in Puget Sound.

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In Denny Triangle, a land use application for a 44-story apartment building with 455 homes and retail has been approved.

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Expanding light rail in Seattle is at unreal levels of popular approval, and yet the best we can do for Ballard Link is 2039.

Chris Daniels

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Yes, a new poll suggests Bringing Back the Sonics to Seattle is more popular… …than Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell More via ⁦ @JeremyHarrisTV ⁩ ⁦ @komonews ⁩ #Sonics #NBA

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INBOX: “In exciting news, Google announced this week that transit riders in Seattle and the Puget Sound region will soon be able to add ORCA cards to Google Wallet.” — @TheORCACard

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11 months

The Sound Transit board’s view on transit priorities.

The Seattle Times

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As the future of commuting remains uncertain, the investment in parking is a bet that Sounder riders will return and, when they do, will need more parking.

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Uh oh. Someone drove a car in the bike lane on NE 43rd Street in the U District and end up in the planter bioswale.

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Did a car write this tweet?

NPR

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2 years

Cars aren't just a symbol of freedom — they play an essential role in the economy. And yet, for more and more Americans owning a car is becoming unaffordable.

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Washington’s state legislature has advanced a bill that would allow cafes in more residential neighborhoods. Story:

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@pnw_nature It’s amazing what vans can and do accomplish in cities better than a single one of those wankpanzers do.

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As of today, development projects with housing in Seattle are fully exempt from SEPA. 🎉 🎊 💥

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2 years

Nice. 😎

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In the U District, a land use application for a 7-story apartment building with 48 homes and 0 car parking spaces has been approved.

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Did a car write this?

KING 5 News

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The City of Edmonds is deciding whether the outdoor dining spots should once again be much-needed parking spots.

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Under Best, @SeattlePD tear gassed a sitting City Councilmember, maced a nine-year-old kid, repeatedly targeted journalists with munitions, jailed a British reporter causing an international incident, and never admitted to doing anything wrong. #DefundSPD

Seattle Council Bans Chemical Weapons and Other Brutal Crowd Control Tactics - The Urbanist

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) repeatedly tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed crowds during the first two weeks of protests, but the Seattle City Council sought to close the door on this tactic...

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Did a Tesla write this?

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Fascinating how permanent bike lanes work right in front of Amsterdam’s cruise terminal.

Port of Seattle - ⚓️

@PortofSeattle

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We’ve been discussing an Alaskan Way bike trail strategy that supports safety for cyclists and pedestrians during cruise operations with the City of Seattle and the cycling community. Read more ↓

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Holy shit. @BellevueWA actually claims they won’t rezone the area around the future South Bellevue Link station because of “crime” and “neighborhood character”.

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This is a climate solution. 🇳🇱

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A DOT head calls parking minimums "absurd." "While none of us are guaranteed a place to rest our heads tonight, if we own a car it is required by law to have multiple places to park it. And that to me has alway struck me as absurd." — @WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar

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Some would call this a climate win.

Build A Better Seattle

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Washington drivers are changing their habits and canceling trips as the average price for a gallon climbs above $5.

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The @seattletimes just as well could have said “WA House Passes Bill Relegalizing Small Multiplexes In Most Cities” but, uh, okay.

WA House passes bill banning single-family zoning

The bill would not mean the end of single-family homes, but it could, eventually, mean the end of neighborhoods of exclusively single-family homes.

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7 months

Separated, protected bike lanes should be ubiquitous in cities.

foxyjewishmama

@foxyjewishmama

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Y’all.

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It’s just amazing how much disdain some people who live in cities have for cities.

Keep Pike Place Market open to traffic

Pike Place Market is the one place everyone can feel safe and enjoy. The flow of trucks, cars and people keep the market lively during the day and night.

www.seattletimes.com

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3 years

This is what Link and the Seattle Streetcar right-of-ways should look like.

CitySpeakAustralia

@CitySpeakAust

3 years

Trams, grass and trees. A winning combination, greening our cities imaginatively. Our CitySpeakers talk in this episode about why trees are the answer to so many aspects of making cities better:

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3 years

Very likely that Mayor Durkan committed a felony by setting her work phone to delete text messages after 30 days.

Lewis Kamb

@lewiskamb

3 years

After last week saying an “unknown technology issue” led Seattle’s mayor to lose 10-months of text messsages during a contentious time in her tenure, her office acknowledged yesterday that one of her iPhones had been set to delete texts older than 30 days

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This is still super funny.

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Sorry, Elon Musk. “Verbal govt approval” for the Hyperloop is not a thing.

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@SDOTtraffic Pedestrianize it permanently. 😎

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Wait, what? KOMO told me Seattle was dying. What happened?

KOMO News

@komonews

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Locals and tourists are showing up at Seattle’s Waterfront again, enjoying the weekend and spending some money.

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Setbacks: what are they good for? Absolutely nothing.

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SDOT ticketing SDOT for illegally parking is 👨‍🍳 😘

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If your prevailing transportation paradigm has created “road rage,” maybe it’s time to pursue a different paradigm. #JoyfulTransportation

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“In a bombshell 2020 study, University of Washington researchers directly tied 6PPD, a chemical in tires intended to prolong the products’ life, to the collapse of coho salmon populations in Puget Sound.”

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

6 months

For the first time, the EPA is investigating the environmental harm caused by tires. The federal government is finally acknowledging that tailpipe emissions are just one of the ways that cars befoul the planet. Me in @Slate . 🧵 below

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BREAKING: the US transit system.

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When do we build that regional rail and high-speed rail stuff? 🚆 #waleg

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