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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · Dec 9

we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23m

Good

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8h

4 stories is not human scale!

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8h

Narrow canyon streets around the world defy that logic completely

The term is bullshit

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8h

No they won’t. Hitler wasn’t Aryan.

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8h

The fact we still do this when the World Series used to literally just be the winner of the AL vs Winner of NL as the only series is funny. Teams now can win a WS playing 22 playoff games. That was like babe Ruth’s entire career in the playoffs lol

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8h

Can someone explain to me how any building is “human scale”? This just seems like one of those architecture pulled-out-of-their-ass made up terms to either praise or criticize anything they felt like. Even 1 story buildings are giant, like 12’ tall! NBA players are half that height

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11h

Edmonds CM Vivian Olson, speaking in favor of scaling back the hub: "I just want to say that the reason that we've been so attached to our heights is human scale and blocking views. And we will be blocking views here, and I don't think it's worth it."

Olson actually wants to go further.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 9h

I’m sure this cleared their equity analysis and met the sustainability checklist too

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15h

SDOT plans to make improvements to Occidental Ave in advance of the World Cup, but we definitely can't change parking on the street, so we're going to get a "walkway" between the road and parked cars.

Graphic showing cars parked on Occidental facing the buildings with the location of a "walkway test" between the road and the cars

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 13h

Leave it closed to cars permanently

Seattle Department of Transportation @seattledot.bsky.social · 15h

Just a reminder that this work has started. Traffic is being managed by the traffic control officers on-site and routes may change.

The Market is open for business and walking, biking, and taking transit are a great way to visit. 🚶‍♀️🚴🚍🚈

A traffic control officer wearing a white hardhat and a bright orange vest guides a truck in front of Pike Place Market. There are orange traffic cones behind the truck.

Orange traffic cones and yellow caution tape close off a section of street in front of Pike Place Market.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 17h

Cannot believe Seattle Times wrote a story about this. I did appreciate that activists comments about bashing DRB

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 17h

Why did y’all stop protesting after trump was elected? I figured this would get turbo charged?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 19h

Three Washington cities on here, none are Seattle

Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 19h

So far in 2025, 11 cities have clearly signaled that the era of mandatory parking is coming to an end! 🎉

parkingreform.org/mandates-map/

A table titled "Cities That Abolished Parking Mandates in 2025". It lists cities and the dates they removed mandatory parking requirements. The cities are Toledo, OH (Sep 9); Oak Forest, IL (Aug 26); Shoreline, WA (Aug 11); Denver, CO (Aug 5); Boulder, CO (Jul 24); Botnell, WA (Jul 8); Bremerton, WA (Jun 4); Fairview, OR (Jun 4); Franklin, WI (May 6); Fitchburg, WI (Apr 8); and Sherbrooke, QC (Apr 8).

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 19h

Glad the genocide ended under trump. Thanks for getting him elected with this attitude

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 20h

Love to hear it. I have been told the local planning staff here in Seattle is totally fine undermining our state laws its very frustrating

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 21h

Problem is we will take 18 years to do so

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

Gentrifiers hate being priced out. That’s all this shit ever is

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t blame her telling the voters who refused to elect her “good luck”

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22h

They are obsessed with blowing huge sums of money on things we don’t need because it parks staff somewhere for a 7 year planning process

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23h

State level is a great start. But until you have this attitude within local governments and among city staff they’ll just undermine state plans. They do it in liberal blue Seattle all the time.

Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 23h

“Gone are the days when we are a state of ‘no’ and ‘slow.’ We will be the state of ‘yes’ and ‘now.’” — @govwesmoore.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Gov. Moore’s sprawling executive order aims to boost Maryland housing stock

It’s unclear how many more units the governor’s executive order would induce, and to what extent it fills Maryland’s housing gap.

www.thebanner.com

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

Vote for someone who wants to do something for once. We haven’t had a chance like this in almost 20 years

Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

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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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

What is so consistent from all these stories is just how fucking lazy he is. Like not lazy as in sleeping in or skipping work. He shows up. But he just mentally doesn’t want to actually do anything. And that’s what this is

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

I think it goes to show how stupid voters are. I don’t even laugh or mock the people who voted for him who then get deported or a friend or loved one does. Because it’s just sad. I just say to myself “what a dumbass” and just hope they learned from the mistake. But they wont

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also funny they think they can trick people flying mostly for business at this time of year. Like that shit is completely comical. Or that they think anyone is listening at all and not staring at their phones

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

All these people in cars would be a traffic jam. Instead, it’s a city.

Broadway in New York City. Photo by me. The street is pedestrianized with a row of bikes on the right and pedestrian activity in the center.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

Very very few, if any

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d

Staff at metro and SDOT? No