Mike McGinn frequently biked to work, so it seems quite possible for Mayor (elect) Wilson to ride public transit for certain nearby events, with the usual two or three SPD bodyguards alongside.

That's a safe bet

Here's one - the @wsdot.wa.gov just built a pre-emptive desire trail that will help some apartment residents in the northeast go more directly to a new light rail station to their southwest, in this southward looking image. (The walk is still not very pleasant, at wide I-5 access roads.)

The engineers and planners make astounding sums of money during the futile planning process, not to mention outreach contractors. If we had a leaner project selection culture in the U.S., the "sunk cost" (psychologically more than $$) would be less of a drag on hard decisions.

When push came to shove, road projects got done under Mike McGinn and bike projects got done under Bruce Harrell.

Affordability isn't the goal, creating new financial products is the goal.

What do they do?

It wasn't on the Seattle Times front page because the paper goes out before 6 a.m. and the new vote counts aren't posted until after 4 p.m., or about one hour ago.

Reliability rates are around 97% in 2025, which is respectable performance. Downtown escalators used to be only 50% operable in 2020.

A few years ago, I requisitioned an .xls of all the outages and found @soundtransit's summary reports to be generally on point. That's worth trying again in 2025.

That's an interesting point. We need to keep in mind that many of these outages are just somebody fooling around with the emergency-stop buttons that anybody can reach. Another cause is the occasional use of elevators as a toilet. "Environmental" can include rain flooding which is a design weakness.

I've read spreadsheets listing the individual incidents and they fairly well track what you see in the pie chart.

Toilet policy is still quite stingy overall. The upcoming Federal Way extension has loos at all three new stations, where you buzz to the security guard to unlock a door.

The parks and transportation departments are still using them, so where exactly are my carbon taxes being spent?

One fourth of the population loses 2 lbs. That sounds like a reasonable guess.

Mahalo to @meganululani.bsky.social for writing this explainer story; check it out!