Jason
@jrock08.bsky.social
He/him. Seattle. People should be able to walk and roll without dying.
I feel like gave great remarks and then descending into conspiracies is a pretty on point for the Seattle mayor.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I feel like gave great remarks and then descending into conspiracies is a pretty on point for the Seattle mayor.
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"A lot of people are saying I shouldn’t concede and there are anomalies"
Bruce, dude, what the actual fuck
Bruce, dude, what the actual fuck
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"A lot of people are saying I shouldn’t concede and there are anomalies"
Bruce, dude, what the actual fuck
Bruce, dude, what the actual fuck
Woof
Woah, what the hell was that? Bruce just said that there are people telling him not to concede because there were "anomalies." That's a wild and irresponsible thing to say.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Woof
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Even putting the bollard discussion last night aside, it's incredible that there's an entire board with the power to decide whether Shug's can change storefronts or El Borracho can sell hot dogs.
This meeting is happening now, as expected, opponents of pedestrianizing Pike Place Market are pretty heavily represented when it comes to providing public comment on potential bollard installation at the Market.
URGENT BOLLARD ALERT.
SDOT is going to the Pike Place Market Historical Commission next Wednesday to get initial guidance on the "physical protective barriers" planned ahead of the FIFA World Cup.
The board is getting its temperature taken on a "hybrid approach" of bollards and vehicle barricades.
SDOT is going to the Pike Place Market Historical Commission next Wednesday to get initial guidance on the "physical protective barriers" planned ahead of the FIFA World Cup.
The board is getting its temperature taken on a "hybrid approach" of bollards and vehicle barricades.
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Even putting the bollard discussion last night aside, it's incredible that there's an entire board with the power to decide whether Shug's can change storefronts or El Borracho can sell hot dogs.
Cascade's failure to highlight this win was actually my first big fracture point with them.
The bike lane barriers installed in D2 were installed because @tammymorales.bsky.social put a proviso on ~$2M in 2023 to add concrete protection to every lane mile in D2.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
For the record, I’m certainly no fan of Harrell. I voted against him (twice) long before it was cool.
But if you deny that he built a ton of high-quality bike infrastructure over the past four years, you’re being obtuse.
I sincerely hope Wilson builds more
bsky.app/profile/bike...
But if you deny that he built a ton of high-quality bike infrastructure over the past four years, you’re being obtuse.
I sincerely hope Wilson builds more
bsky.app/profile/bike...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Cascade's failure to highlight this win was actually my first big fracture point with them.
Yes, he never technically opposed bike weekends on LWB. But they decreased in length and number through his term.
Bruce mastered delaying projects so people would forget. At least Durkan outright cancelled them
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yes, he never technically opposed bike weekends on LWB. But they decreased in length and number through his term.
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The focus on school zones in New York City as the only places where we can take parking or ask anything of drivers in the name of safety needs to stop. Even if we're just focusing on kids, kids go everywhere: to parks, friends' homes, shops, etc. And we all deserve safety, no matter how old we are.
SHAMEFUL: Pro-Parking DOT 'Forced' Lawmakers To Scale Back Daylighting Bill, Says Queens Pol - Streetsblog New York City
A parking-first City Hall has thrown up road blocks against pedestrian safety.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The focus on school zones in New York City as the only places where we can take parking or ask anything of drivers in the name of safety needs to stop. Even if we're just focusing on kids, kids go everywhere: to parks, friends' homes, shops, etc. And we all deserve safety, no matter how old we are.
The bike lane barriers installed in D2 were installed because @tammymorales.bsky.social put a proviso on ~$2M in 2023 to add concrete protection to every lane mile in D2.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
For the record, I’m certainly no fan of Harrell. I voted against him (twice) long before it was cool.
But if you deny that he built a ton of high-quality bike infrastructure over the past four years, you’re being obtuse.
I sincerely hope Wilson builds more
bsky.app/profile/bike...
But if you deny that he built a ton of high-quality bike infrastructure over the past four years, you’re being obtuse.
I sincerely hope Wilson builds more
bsky.app/profile/bike...
Yeah. I lived in SE Seattle and voted against him in his two city council elections because he opposed bike lanes on both Rainier and MLK.
Neither of those streets have bike lanes in their futures. Harrell is pro bikes everywhere he doesn’t live.
Neither of those streets have bike lanes in their futures. Harrell is pro bikes everywhere he doesn’t live.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The bike lane barriers installed in D2 were installed because @tammymorales.bsky.social put a proviso on ~$2M in 2023 to add concrete protection to every lane mile in D2.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
Without that proviso only ~1 mile of bike lane on D2 would have concrete protection.
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legitimately wild congestion pricing wasn’t an issue in New York’s mayoral election
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
legitimately wild congestion pricing wasn’t an issue in New York’s mayoral election
I live and do safe streets advocacy in the Rainer Valley. I also think that ultimately there needs to be a bike infrastructure on Rainer Ave S and MLK jr way S. With that said, building a bike lane on Rainer within 4 years is not actually a rational measuring stick for success.
If Wilson doesn’t build a N-S bike route thru Rainier Valley by the end of her first term, she won’t be a great bike mayor.
Rainier would be better than MLK.
Rainier would be better than MLK.
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I live and do safe streets advocacy in the Rainer Valley. I also think that ultimately there needs to be a bike infrastructure on Rainer Ave S and MLK jr way S. With that said, building a bike lane on Rainer within 4 years is not actually a rational measuring stick for success.
Unelected busybody says that the duly elected mayor doesn't get a vote?
"The mayor doesn't get a vote in this," Graff says. "This not Disneyland, this is a working market."
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Unelected busybody says that the duly elected mayor doesn't get a vote?
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"The mayor doesn't get a vote in this," Graff says. "This not Disneyland, this is a working market."
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"The mayor doesn't get a vote in this," Graff says. "This not Disneyland, this is a working market."
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
Graff wants to see a traffic study because he can't get to his office.
A larger issue of people using vehicles as weapons in pedestrian areas
Commission member Tom Graf says he was offended that the Mayor brought up the vehicle attack in New Orleans as a justification for adding hardening infrastructure at Pike Place Market. Graf says that what happened in NOLA was a larger issue.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A larger issue of people using vehicles as weapons in pedestrian areas
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Affordability is NOT something that just concerns people at the “bottom of the economic ladder.” You have to be pretty out of touch and well off to not have any concerns around affordability.
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Affordability is NOT something that just concerns people at the “bottom of the economic ladder.” You have to be pretty out of touch and well off to not have any concerns around affordability.
Shortly after I took this photo I watched as a driver illegally using the bus lane honked at this person on a bike because they wanted to pass them illegally in the bus lane
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Shortly after I took this photo I watched as a driver illegally using the bus lane honked at this person on a bike because they wanted to pass them illegally in the bus lane
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amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
Does anyone else want to start a niche advocacy campaign focused entirely on getting and installing better urban lighting (as in more) citywide?
Often, Seattle playgrounds go dark at sunset due to a lack of lighting while the nearby parking lots are well lit
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Does anyone else want to start a niche advocacy campaign focused entirely on getting and installing better urban lighting (as in more) citywide?
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Someone that spends time on the I90 Trail really hates the "where are the lights" posters and has scratched out the QR code on some of them and removed others.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Someone that spends time on the I90 Trail really hates the "where are the lights" posters and has scratched out the QR code on some of them and removed others.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Do drivers next
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Do drivers next
I really don't understand who people think should run for local office if not local activists like Katie Wilson. Who's running for mayor with 80% name rec?
"Katie Wilson, if nothing else, has had an audacious rise from a little-known progressive activist..."
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
It's starting to look like a socialist is going to Seattle City Hall
Plus Airbnb goes back to the mattresses, some recommended reading, and it's time to sign up for our Re-Wire Policy Conference
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I really don't understand who people think should run for local office if not local activists like Katie Wilson. Who's running for mayor with 80% name rec?
Ngl I'm now very glad the previous mayor didn't put explicit goals in the last transportation levy because they would have been terrible.
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Ngl I'm now very glad the previous mayor didn't put explicit goals in the last transportation levy because they would have been terrible.
"Stop having takes on election night" remains undefeated
Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Stop having takes on election night" remains undefeated
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Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.
Get in loser we're painting bus and bike lanes
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Get in loser we're painting bus and bike lanes