Curbwonk
@curbwonk.bsky.social
A critical Urbanist interested in the intersections of policy and urban place making with little hope for a better future. Uses sarcasm to cope.
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Wow the bike lane on Airport Way is completely obstructed with zero signage indicating so anywhere. I got kettled in and had to walk against traffic for a ways to get around. @seattledot.bsky.social is definitely negligent here if someone gets hurt.
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Wow the bike lane on Airport Way is completely obstructed with zero signage indicating so anywhere. I got kettled in and had to walk against traffic for a ways to get around. @seattledot.bsky.social is definitely negligent here if someone gets hurt.
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Pedestrians have been under attack from drivers for a long, long time.
October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Pedestrians have been under attack from drivers for a long, long time.
I would honestly love for @spottnik.bsky.social to come back and lead SDOT, but with a mayor like @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social who would, I believe, support transformational work instead of allowing this to happen.
New records provide more detail than ever before on what was happening in the six months between a packed community meeting and an announcement that safety upgrades on Lake Washington Boulevard would be dramatically scaled back.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist
# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...
www.theurbanist.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I would honestly love for @spottnik.bsky.social to come back and lead SDOT, but with a mayor like @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social who would, I believe, support transformational work instead of allowing this to happen.
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Well, he’s right about one thing.
It’s the time for action.
Let’s elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social so we can build many MORE bus lanes, not remove the ones we already have!
Come to the rally at 3:30 at El Centro De La Raza today (10/4)!
This is YOUR city!
www.mobilize.us/wilsonforsea...
It’s the time for action.
Let’s elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social so we can build many MORE bus lanes, not remove the ones we already have!
Come to the rally at 3:30 at El Centro De La Raza today (10/4)!
This is YOUR city!
www.mobilize.us/wilsonforsea...
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Well, he’s right about one thing.
It’s the time for action.
Let’s elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social so we can build many MORE bus lanes, not remove the ones we already have!
Come to the rally at 3:30 at El Centro De La Raza today (10/4)!
This is YOUR city!
www.mobilize.us/wilsonforsea...
It’s the time for action.
Let’s elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social so we can build many MORE bus lanes, not remove the ones we already have!
Come to the rally at 3:30 at El Centro De La Raza today (10/4)!
This is YOUR city!
www.mobilize.us/wilsonforsea...
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this is attempted murder
October 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
this is attempted murder
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Under Mayor Harrell's leadership, bike, walk and bus improvements that required years of outreach can be removed without any notice
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Under Mayor Harrell’s leadership, bike, walk and bus improvements that required years of outreach can be removed without any notice
When neighbors asked the city to make Lake Washington Boulevard safer for people walking and biking, the city kicked off a half-decade public outreach process that stalled out once Bruce Harrell became mayor before concluding with a lackluster plan to add some speed humps and a couple stop signs. Then without any outreach at all, Seattle Parks this summer announced they were cancelling the rest…
www.seattlebikeblog.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Another issue with the 12th and Union bus lane removal: People will absolutely turn right to 12th (more) with this change. Now it is very clear - No Turning, but with the turn onto union the traffic flow will be even MORE confusing for the people who couldn't figure out the current configuration. ☠️
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Another issue with the 12th and Union bus lane removal: People will absolutely turn right to 12th (more) with this change. Now it is very clear - No Turning, but with the turn onto union the traffic flow will be even MORE confusing for the people who couldn't figure out the current configuration. ☠️
Still waiting for that justification
@seattledot.bsky.social, your own values state that you will:
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
Hearing from sources that the union st busway will soon be reorganized into the union st carway.
Now it will be much easier to drive to central Capitol Hill!
Now it will be much easier to drive to central Capitol Hill!
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Still waiting for that justification
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I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.
@seattledot.bsky.social, your own values state that you will:
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
Hearing from sources that the union st busway will soon be reorganized into the union st carway.
Now it will be much easier to drive to central Capitol Hill!
Now it will be much easier to drive to central Capitol Hill!
September 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
@seattledot.bsky.social, your own values state that you will:
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
1. Prioritize safety ..., with no serious injury or fatal crashes
2. Co-create with community
3. Respond to climate change
4. Reimagine streets as places to linger and play
Justify the lack outreach and personal vehicle access here?
@seattledot.bsky.social, what was the reason this change was made?
September 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
@seattledot.bsky.social, what was the reason this change was made?
@seattledot.bsky.social should treat this as an opportunity to make it right by the climate and the citizens of Seattle, but they're poised to double down on the catastrophic status quo.
'SDOT staff are envisioning the future of Aurora Avenue N to look nearly exactly the same as it has for the last 100 years: a dangerous, high speed, six- to seven-lane highway'
i have a solution for that!
i have a solution for that!
“Aurora Avenue N is a textbook example of environmental injustice: dense housing, elderly residents, unhoused individuals, underserved communities, and schools located along a high-speed, high-volume roadway with no buffer or mitigation.”
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
@seattledot.bsky.social should treat this as an opportunity to make it right by the climate and the citizens of Seattle, but they're poised to double down on the catastrophic status quo.
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Let’s create 100% pedestrian links to a bunch of other places.
Creating a 100% pedestrian link between the waterfront and Pike Place Market was the best thing Seattle has done this century.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Let’s create 100% pedestrian links to a bunch of other places.
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Have you voted for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social yet?
July 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Have you voted for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social yet?
Seattle needs a streetcar, splitting off from the existing Broadway streetcar, which goes northeast on Madison, turning north on 15th and finally looping back around to the broadway streetcar via John.
July 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Seattle needs a streetcar, splitting off from the existing Broadway streetcar, which goes northeast on Madison, turning north on 15th and finally looping back around to the broadway streetcar via John.
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You were not meant to learn whatever the fuck setbacks or floorplates are
You are ONLY supposed to show up & say “make housing bigger & more abundant”, “make transit faster & more frequent”, & if they give you plannerspeak excuses your job is not to nod & understand because that’s how they get you
You are ONLY supposed to show up & say “make housing bigger & more abundant”, “make transit faster & more frequent”, & if they give you plannerspeak excuses your job is not to nod & understand because that’s how they get you
A bad process built with your tax dollars require neither your respect nor good faith
You are only one thing: a VOTER, not a hobbyist urban planner. The trap that The Good advocates keep falling into is they learn planning jargon in good faith in hopes that will drive change
It never does
You are only one thing: a VOTER, not a hobbyist urban planner. The trap that The Good advocates keep falling into is they learn planning jargon in good faith in hopes that will drive change
It never does
The most critical thing I can point out is this: malicious compliance!
If a system or process is fundamentally broken, NIMBYs engage with it through a form of malicious compliance. Do-gooder YIMBYs engage with it earnestly & in good faith
But, results stack in favour of malicious compliance 🤷🏾♂️
If a system or process is fundamentally broken, NIMBYs engage with it through a form of malicious compliance. Do-gooder YIMBYs engage with it earnestly & in good faith
But, results stack in favour of malicious compliance 🤷🏾♂️
June 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
You were not meant to learn whatever the fuck setbacks or floorplates are
You are ONLY supposed to show up & say “make housing bigger & more abundant”, “make transit faster & more frequent”, & if they give you plannerspeak excuses your job is not to nod & understand because that’s how they get you
You are ONLY supposed to show up & say “make housing bigger & more abundant”, “make transit faster & more frequent”, & if they give you plannerspeak excuses your job is not to nod & understand because that’s how they get you
The SeaTac transportation game is terrible. Everyone waiting on a ride "share" should be getting in trains. There's like two light rail cars of people waiting there at any given time during busy periods. What a wasted opportunity.
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The SeaTac transportation game is terrible. Everyone waiting on a ride "share" should be getting in trains. There's like two light rail cars of people waiting there at any given time during busy periods. What a wasted opportunity.
Seattle, when?
The Netherlands boasts over 35,000 km of separated cycle paths, half of which have been built since 1996. This (fairly recent) success is built on design principles which are embedded in urban planning and together form a deliberate, systematic approach to infrastructure design: youtu.be/pdsUjjncUp0
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Seattle, when?
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@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social is on point!!
May 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social is on point!!
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If you're curious how a Capitol Hill Superblock might work, here's one example that maintains access to all existing driveways while increasing pedestrian space by 50%.
February 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If you're curious how a Capitol Hill Superblock might work, here's one example that maintains access to all existing driveways while increasing pedestrian space by 50%.
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all the NIMBYs whining about new housing and apartments in seattle are not saying anything they haven't been saying for 40 years.
here are some choice snips from the 1987 'fremont multifamily housing study'
urban villages have been majority renter since long before when they were urban villages
here are some choice snips from the 1987 'fremont multifamily housing study'
urban villages have been majority renter since long before when they were urban villages
January 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
all the NIMBYs whining about new housing and apartments in seattle are not saying anything they haven't been saying for 40 years.
here are some choice snips from the 1987 'fremont multifamily housing study'
urban villages have been majority renter since long before when they were urban villages
here are some choice snips from the 1987 'fremont multifamily housing study'
urban villages have been majority renter since long before when they were urban villages
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We live in such a special place and everyone who wants to live here should be able to.
December 21, 2024 at 1:07 AM
We live in such a special place and everyone who wants to live here should be able to.
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“In reality, the duty to prevent collisions should fall on the road engineers, car companies, and public officials who create the system in which people drive, bike, or walk—and not on road users themselves.” — @davidzipper.bsky.social in @fastcompany.com #VisionZero
Who’s really to blame—and who isn’t—for America’s traffic death epidemic
Politicians love to say that ‘road safety is a shared responsibility,’ but the reality is that some groups have a much larger duty than others.
www.fastcompany.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
“In reality, the duty to prevent collisions should fall on the road engineers, car companies, and public officials who create the system in which people drive, bike, or walk—and not on road users themselves.” — @davidzipper.bsky.social in @fastcompany.com #VisionZero
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“The urban environment communicates a message to the user: are you only tolerated? Or are you invited?
Creating an inviting environment for pedestrians and cyclists provokes the kind of behaviour we are looking for. A place where they feel welcome, and the most important user of the public space.”
Creating an inviting environment for pedestrians and cyclists provokes the kind of behaviour we are looking for. A place where they feel welcome, and the most important user of the public space.”
December 13, 2024 at 9:42 AM
“The urban environment communicates a message to the user: are you only tolerated? Or are you invited?
Creating an inviting environment for pedestrians and cyclists provokes the kind of behaviour we are looking for. A place where they feel welcome, and the most important user of the public space.”
Creating an inviting environment for pedestrians and cyclists provokes the kind of behaviour we are looking for. A place where they feel welcome, and the most important user of the public space.”