🏢 David L 🚎
@davidl206.city
Attorney, dad of 2, in Seattle. About:
🚎 Faster buses.
🏢 More and bigger apartments.
⛔️ Less car priority.
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🚎 Faster buses.
🏢 More and bigger apartments.
⛔️ Less car priority.
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🏢 David L 🚎
@davidl206.city
· Aug 22
We could have this incredibly useful bus network with:
- the same number of service hours as today's network (with planned RapidRide additions)
- no changes to any service not on this map
Neither Metro nor SDOT has ever focused on the central city bus network. It's time to start.
More to come. 🧵
- the same number of service hours as today's network (with planned RapidRide additions)
- no changes to any service not on this map
Neither Metro nor SDOT has ever focused on the central city bus network. It's time to start.
More to come. 🧵
Los Angeles is the final boss of NIMBYs.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Los Angeles is the final boss of NIMBYs.
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My most woke opinion is that cities should completely ignore suburban commuters and design the city we aspire to be. They’ll either begrudgingly commute in by car, mode shift, or be replaced by others in foot traffic
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My most woke opinion is that cities should completely ignore suburban commuters and design the city we aspire to be. They’ll either begrudgingly commute in by car, mode shift, or be replaced by others in foot traffic
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made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The mental hoops these people will jump through to justify their desire to park right in front of their storefront instead of in a garage across the street are absolutely unreal.
The meeting is wrapping up with commissioners minimizing the idea that recalcitrant drivers at a problem at the Market, with Commissioner Mark Childs saying that having cars on the street can minimize damage to people walking when there are crashes.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The mental hoops these people will jump through to justify their desire to park right in front of their storefront instead of in a garage across the street are absolutely unreal.
Congratulations to Mayor-elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social! And to all of us on what I hope will be a rosy future of bus lanes, abundant new housing at all income levels, and a City of Seattle executive branch that works toward clear policy goals.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Congratulations to Mayor-elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social! And to all of us on what I hope will be a rosy future of bus lanes, abundant new housing at all income levels, and a City of Seattle executive branch that works toward clear policy goals.
End the #DurkanSpeedway!
You know, a boss move for a new administration would be to stripe bike lanes on 35th Ave. NE, just like the original plan. #Safe35th
Mayor Durkan Cancels 35th Ave NE Bike Lanes, Caves To Anti-Safe Streets Advocates » The Urbanist
# Behind closed doors earlier today, recently appointed director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Samuel Zimbabwe, interim transportation advisor to Mayor Jenny Durkan, Elliot Helmb...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
End the #DurkanSpeedway!
Important point, especially about Strauss, who bends under pressure, and should be subject to constant pressure on any important issue before the council.
anyway, i agree. the seattle council is like in three separate chunks now-- the progs (Rinck, Foster, Lin) , the mod/cons (Saka, Kettle, Rivera), and the betweens (Hollingsworth, Juarez, Strauss). and a lot depends on who the betweens side with, how often, and on what.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Important point, especially about Strauss, who bends under pressure, and should be subject to constant pressure on any important issue before the council.
Let’s be clear: with the amortization schedule what it is, giving a 61-year-old “buyer” a 50-year “mortgage” actually amounts to the bank buying the house and renting it to the “buyer”—but with the “buyer” taking on normal home ownership risks. Heads the bank wins, tails the bank wins.
THE MEDIAN AGE OF A U.S. HOME BUYER NOW SITS AT A RECORD HIGH OF 61 YEARS, PER NAR.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Let’s be clear: with the amortization schedule what it is, giving a 61-year-old “buyer” a 50-year “mortgage” actually amounts to the bank buying the house and renting it to the “buyer”—but with the “buyer” taking on normal home ownership risks. Heads the bank wins, tails the bank wins.
Are we going to have to retire this slightly befuddled but also grumpy facial expression which, to me, defines Bruce Harrell?
Mayor Harrell Still Not Sure Why City Wants Social Housing Funds He Can’t Steal from and Give to Cops: bit.ly/430iR50
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Are we going to have to retire this slightly befuddled but also grumpy facial expression which, to me, defines Bruce Harrell?
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The 50-year mortgage is brilliant, in a sick way.
It amounts to the financial sector buying up & renting out all housing, but with “homeowners” absorbing maintenance risk + rhetorical fig leaf of “homeownership.”
If only we were as innovative in value-creating industries as we are in parisitism.
It amounts to the financial sector buying up & renting out all housing, but with “homeowners” absorbing maintenance risk + rhetorical fig leaf of “homeownership.”
If only we were as innovative in value-creating industries as we are in parisitism.
I am much more sympathetic than most to the idea that increasing mortgage credit is important (because it can induce a lot of building among low/middle income households) but increasing the maximum loan duration by 60% is like the worst possible way of doing this lmfao
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The 50-year mortgage is brilliant, in a sick way.
It amounts to the financial sector buying up & renting out all housing, but with “homeowners” absorbing maintenance risk + rhetorical fig leaf of “homeownership.”
If only we were as innovative in value-creating industries as we are in parisitism.
It amounts to the financial sector buying up & renting out all housing, but with “homeowners” absorbing maintenance risk + rhetorical fig leaf of “homeownership.”
If only we were as innovative in value-creating industries as we are in parisitism.
Hey car drivers: You pissed all of these people off with your driving—enough that they went out in the stormy November rain to pack this hall.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hey car drivers: You pissed all of these people off with your driving—enough that they went out in the stormy November rain to pack this hall.
Why is there no ballot drop box anywhere in the greater CBD (the area bounded by Denny, I-5, Jackson, and Puget Sound)? Seems like there are a lot of voters in that area!
(Yes, I procrastinated, and, yes, I’ll find my way down to Uwajimaya.)
(Yes, I procrastinated, and, yes, I’ll find my way down to Uwajimaya.)
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Why is there no ballot drop box anywhere in the greater CBD (the area bounded by Denny, I-5, Jackson, and Puget Sound)? Seems like there are a lot of voters in that area!
(Yes, I procrastinated, and, yes, I’ll find my way down to Uwajimaya.)
(Yes, I procrastinated, and, yes, I’ll find my way down to Uwajimaya.)
This is someone showing middle-finger contempt for city residents. Why on earth would those same residents elect him?
Cuomo parking his OJ-mobile in the bike lane says pretty much everything about his campaign
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is someone showing middle-finger contempt for city residents. Why on earth would those same residents elect him?
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Cuomo parking his OJ-mobile in the bike lane says pretty much everything about his campaign
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cuomo parking his OJ-mobile in the bike lane says pretty much everything about his campaign
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I’ve known & worked with Katie for almost a decade. I’ve watched her unfailingly fight for the needs & rights of working class people in Seattle. I’ve found Katie next to me at canvasses, at picket lines, & at City Hall, & always on the right side of things. Vote Katie Wilson. She’ll fight for YOU.
Vote! Already did? Text or call your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers. We can win this! #thisisyourcity
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve known & worked with Katie for almost a decade. I’ve watched her unfailingly fight for the needs & rights of working class people in Seattle. I’ve found Katie next to me at canvasses, at picket lines, & at City Hall, & always on the right side of things. Vote Katie Wilson. She’ll fight for YOU.
Almost none of the media is getting this point. Mamdani is getting through to city residents not because he’s a particular degree of left, but because everything he says and does makes clear that he loves the city and wants to govern it to be a better city. Cuomo is transparently suburbanist.
One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.
Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Almost none of the media is getting this point. Mamdani is getting through to city residents not because he’s a particular degree of left, but because everything he says and does makes clear that he loves the city and wants to govern it to be a better city. Cuomo is transparently suburbanist.
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One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.
Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.
Did Pierre Boulez name his group “Ensemble Intercontemporain” especially to create a pronunciation puzzle for non-native French speakers? It’s hard to imagine a collection of syllables better designed to give a non-native speaker fits.
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Did Pierre Boulez name his group “Ensemble Intercontemporain” especially to create a pronunciation puzzle for non-native French speakers? It’s hard to imagine a collection of syllables better designed to give a non-native speaker fits.
The exception is people on the right of the political spectrum in cities who label themselves “liberals” because they don’t want to be associated with reactionary hate and stupidity but are really conservatives at heart.
Generally self identified liberals and self identified leftists tend to be delusional about their proximity to one another; there is really not that much distinguishing their politics in the American context.
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The exception is people on the right of the political spectrum in cities who label themselves “liberals” because they don’t want to be associated with reactionary hate and stupidity but are really conservatives at heart.
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Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
I hate to be a buzzkill, but we did this before (at one point with connections to multiple Ballard transfer points), and nobody rode it. Is this really a better use of the money than adding trips to underserved routes in equity priority areas?
A budget amendment from Dan Strauss, co-sponsored by Saka and Rinck, would pilot summer transit service from central Ballard to Golden Gardens.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I hate to be a buzzkill, but we did this before (at one point with connections to multiple Ballard transfer points), and nobody rode it. Is this really a better use of the money than adding trips to underserved routes in equity priority areas?
I like Whisner & think he did mostly good things at Metro. But years thinking about buses left him utterly blind to normie feelings about transit. Rail bias is real—and huge. And it's self-reinforcing, because it makes new rail easier to get through the political process than hard bus improvements.
What did we learn tonight?
The Washington Policy Center hates most transit spending, Jack Whisner likes buses and thinks the region's transit network would be better if we had listened to him, and Doug MacDonald also likes the bus and hates light rail. Good use of everyone's time.
The Washington Policy Center hates most transit spending, Jack Whisner likes buses and thinks the region's transit network would be better if we had listened to him, and Doug MacDonald also likes the bus and hates light rail. Good use of everyone's time.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I like Whisner & think he did mostly good things at Metro. But years thinking about buses left him utterly blind to normie feelings about transit. Rail bias is real—and huge. And it's self-reinforcing, because it makes new rail easier to get through the political process than hard bus improvements.
Taxis are an untreatable mind virus to the sort of people who really never want to interact with strangers.
"Long before Sound Transit is going to build out light rail lines, we're going to have autonomous vehicles, which will be far more convenient for people," Prestrud said.
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Taxis are an untreatable mind virus to the sort of people who really never want to interact with strangers.