Fair enough. Not criticizing the crosswalks or Greenways, just the continued need for improvements on 15th. Deleted the post to prevent confusion.

Greenways pushed back against the original do-nothing plan, and got these crossings in there, as well as some other changes. It's not where those of us prioritizing walkability want it to be FOR CERTAIN, but god the original plan was really bad. I just want to note that.

We need a transportation approach in this city genuinely willing to lower the capacity of streets if we’re ever going to *actually* accomplish mode shift and Vision Zero. We cannot keep accommodating cars first.

When The Stranger gets it wrong, we have no recourse. Look at SPS. As @awongpublic.bsky.social found, since 2005 only 2 people have won a school board race without a Stranger endorsement, and none since 2011. Yet in that time SPS has gone totally off the rails:

As a member of Seattle DSA, this is a completely reasonable approach. DSA isn’t The Stranger. It doesn’t put out a long list of endorsements for every office. Being a DSA-endorsed candidate is a two-way street and rightfully has a high bar.

Certified planners often get titchy about credentials

The last time we elected a grassroots-backed mayor was McGinn in 2009! Since then every mayor we've had has been heavily backed & influenced by Amazon, Expedia, Comcast, CenturyLink, Starbucks, Uber, Vulcan, WA Assoc of Realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, the billionaire owner of the Mariners, etc.

I mean, BARELY within the mandatory recount requirements (and could go beyond that if the few straggling ballots go her way). Right now, she has 0.49 percentage points on Harrell and leads by less than 2000 votes; if that goes above 2000 OR she leads by > 0.5 percent, no mandatory recount.