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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻

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Urbanist living in West Seattle Find me on our neighborshood’s pedestrian friendly Alki Point Healthy street 🚴🏻‍♀️ After years of advocacy, it’s permanent!! Fighting for more housing, transit, bike lanes

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · Nov 8

Alki Stay Healthy Street

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After: 🚴🏻 🚴🏻 🚶‍♀️ 🛴 🐕 🚙

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Brenton Clark @celticwnb.bsky.social · 4h

Ballots should be arriving this week! Vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 21h

Now is not the time to reelect a mayor who refuses to take responsibility for the failures of his administration. We have lost shelter beds every year of the mayor’s term, and more people are sleeping outside as a result. We are a national outlier on unsheltered homelessness.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 1d

Same thing happens with curbstops for our “people lane” on our Alki Pt healthy st. when a vehicle pushes them out of place, they don’t fix them despite several FIFI notifications plus stopping SDot people.

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

This is a topic that has been brought up and will be discussed on the agenda

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social What is your take? I’m going to a community meeting Thursday and can pass along your thoughts

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

I really admire Anne Hidalgo’s transformational leadership. @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social admiration means she will lead Seattle with the same. ⬇️

We can’t continue to slow roll obvious changes like Pike Place pedestrian St. Seattle is growing too fast and we need to keep up.

Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 3d

Katie Wilson: "I look at what Mayor Hidalgo has achieved in Paris, and I think that, and some of the mayors in Spanish cities, progressive, socialist mayors in Spanish cities, and the transformation of public space into walkable, people-oriented places where you want to be, it’s just so important."

I look at what Mayor Hidalgo has achieved in Paris, and I think that, and some of the mayors in Spanish cities, progressive, socialist mayors in Spanish cities, and the transformation of public space into walkable, people-oriented places where you want to be, it’s just so important. I really think that’s definitely going to be a big focus of my administration because if you travel to places like that where that kind of transformation has been achieved, you just feel like, “This is a place that I want to hang out.” It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like part of the city. I can meet people, talk to people, and there’s so much potential in Seattle for creating more of those spaces, and Ca

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

When i visited in May 2023

💯!!!

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

Our @westseaurbanism.bsky.social book club read Stuck by @yappelbaum.bsky.social

Eye opening about the history of zoning and how it’s still used today to control groups of people. Once you see it, it explains everything.

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · Sep 14

Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today

Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration

From Stuck: "If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even when there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things," then, he continued, each of the rules could stand up in court, "and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment homes."

From Stuck: But although some champions of tenement reform were earnest in their efforts, no one who had paid the slightest attention to the movement could have any doubt as to the actual aims of many reformers. The influx of immigrants to New York City was the problem; eliminating affordable housing was the solution.

From Stuck: Veiller, instead, did everything in his power to make housing more expensive. Immigrants continued to pour into the city in the years immediately after the passage of the Tenement Act, but newly constructed tenements became increasingly unaffordable. The cost of making the improvements to old-law tenements mandated by the law, and increasing competition for the remaining affordable units, combined to drive up prices, setting off rent strikes in 1904 and 1907. "The fact is that the new-law tenements ... are beyond the reach of unskilled wage earners," one reformer complained in 1919.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like the Police Union is a big problem

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle officers ‘undermining’ city’s police alternative, report says

The CARE team has become a darling both inside City Hall and among candidates for office, but Seattle police often aren't using this resource, records show.

www.seattletimes.com

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Let’s do this @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I can tell, Seattle's design review program employs 13 people. Can they be redeployed to functions that expedite permitting, rather than slowing it to a crawl?

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 20d

KILL DESIGN REVIEW. The legislature passed HB 1293 but Zombie Design Review continues to feed on the brains of Seattle's architects and developers. Dismantle it, de-fund it, and shift that money where it can provide benefit.

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 3d

Everything makes a difference. My sister is part of a small protest that gathers every Thursday in the suburbs. The big downtown courthouse protests make a difference. Someone honking in support of our small west seattle protest makes a difference. Small and large acts add up

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 3d

what do you mean? aren’t all protesters on equal footing? even if protest is small its still a legitimate protest

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 5d

The principal of the school should make it very clear to the community what is expected.

Traffic monitors in vests can be friendly greeting kids and families. A car free zone!!

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 5d

I lived across from an elementary school. It’s extremely dangerous. There have been deaths because cars and kids don’t mix. Especially 2 minutes before the bell as cars race in

A person needs to be in front with a fluorescent vest making sure cars follow the rules ( a la Seatac arrivals)

Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 6d

@westseaurbanism.bsky.social ⭐️

Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 6d

Quality work here.

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 6d

lol just now seeing this

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 7d

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact.

A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 7d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 8d

She’s 43. I’m 43. It would be really nice if the patriarchy stopped treating women my age like little inexperienced girls who shouldn’t worry their pretty little heads about things like this. I doubt we’d be saying this shit if she were a man.

The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 9d

A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.

Katie Wilson's name might be new to Seattle voters. She says that's good

A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.

www.seattletimes.com

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West Seattle Urbanism @westseaurbanism.bsky.social · 9d

Alki! this Monday! hope to see you there!

Tiffani @tiffanimc.bsky.social · 10d

I’m proud to cohost this fundraising event to support @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social campaign for Mayor. She is the Mayor and leader we need, and I’m also honored to call her a friend. Can you join us on Mon, Oct 6th at 6pm in West Seattle? RSVP here secure.anedot.com/kw4aas/wests...

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 11d

They really don’t understand the urbanism community and how this kind of thing is hard fought and a car brain can just call it in and it’s reversed without any question.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 11d

🎉 🚌 13262 🚌 🎉

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 11d

This was such a huge win but I am also looking forward to Mayor Wilson coming in so we don’t have to go to the mat for every single progressive project. The fight is exhausting

Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 11d

we told you to “slow the flock down “

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Sam Luikens @sluikens.bsky.social · 11d

Also if you’re not already supporting @theurbanist.org consider doing so with your money. If it weren’t for reporting from @typewriteralley.bsky.social so many of us would have missed this.

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Noah, some kind of engineer 🚎💻 @noahsbwilliams.com · 11d

Thank you @seattledot.bsky.social for listening, and for doing the right thing!

Thank you to @councilmember-amr.bsky.social for using your platform to elevate this issue!

And thank you @typewriteralley.bsky.social for your reporting on this story, without which this wouldn't have been possible.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 12d

Good! Thanks for your advocacy.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 12d

- households in Seattle are increasingly carless
- 1/3 of all Washingtonians don't drive daily
- more and more young people aren't getting drivers licenses

Mayor of Seattle for 4 years, also councilmember for 12: "how could I have ever known people would be upset about me prioritizing cars!"

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 12d

As far as I can tell, SDOT seemed to think this would be a fairly routine change, with the Mayor's Office caught completely off guard by the public pushback.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 13d

NEW STORY // What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...

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