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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 22m

@weratedogs.com not holding back with their thoughts on ICE (they're right, they're all fucking losers)

Instagram post from weratedogs today about a dog shot and killed by an ICE agent

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2h

Especially love when they actively take *away* the little space that pedestrians get

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · Mar 27

I also hate that Genesee was expanded at the intersection, putting cars right up next to waiting pedestrians. I believe this was to accommodate turns for the route 50 which had been moved closer to the curb on Delridge, but it should be reverted if/when the 50 is deleted when Link comes online.

Genesee at Delridge Way in 2018 with a large landscape area between the road and sidewalk.

The same intersection now with the roadway having been expanded 6' to the left, removing most of the landscape buffer. The sidewalk is now right next to the road.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2h

Avalon and 35th is my (least) favorite by far

Intersection of 35th and Avalon Street view

Sidewalk corner of 35th and Avalon, the sidewalk is less than 5 feet wide from the curb to the buildings edge. This is the intersection of two major arterials were semis and buses turn

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2h

Transportation priorities in West Seattle are pretty well exemplified by how little space we pedestrians get for queuing when crossing major arterials

A stroller waiting to cross the crosswalk at the intersection of Delridge Way and Andover

The same intersection as seen on street view, showing the 5' sidewalk that both pedestrians and bikes have to share, off to the right. The roads is 5 lanes wide.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 4h

Seattle should have public baths or saunas like Japan and Norway. Cultural ties to both those cultures but we didn't get these goods.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 4h

Someone tell me what the modern propose of SEPA is?

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 4h

Tokyo is the ultimate

Opinion | The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 5h

"Is there a Bay Area example where rent has ever decreased due to building more luxury housing?"

Cities in a metro area don't exist on islands, if the entire Bay Area is facing a housing crisis then it won't matter what Colma (pop. 1500) is doing if other cities aren't doing the same.

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

The comments on this post make it clear the YIMBY movement still has work to do

npr on Instagram: "What's the point of luxury apartments?From @planetmoneyProducer: @jackcorbe • Jack Corbett / NPR.Editor: @alexgoldmark • Alex Goldm…"

What's the point of luxury apartments?From @planetmoneyProducer: @jackcorbe • Jack Corbett / NPR.Editor: @alexgoldmark • Alex Goldmark/NPR.

www.instagram.com

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

The 2nd image is a pretty good representation of what they aim for these days — non-interrupted plantings strips with what I imagine are Silva cells under the asphalt. Lots more water, lots more space to grow.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Another fun evening read if you're interested

How Trees Were Urbanized - Arnold Arboretum

Sonja Dümpelmann. Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. The Roman engineer Vitruvius, writing in the first century […]

arboretum.harvard.edu

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Then we've also come to find out that the cheap, easy tree varieties that many cities installed in the mid 20th century are causing significant allergy issues in some places, leading cities to rip them out and replace them for that reason alone.

It's definitely an ever-evolving field.

How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse

Horticulturist urges better gender mix of city trees to mitigate rising asthma and CO2 pollution levels

www.theguardian.com

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah more or less they didn't know what they were doing + didn't plan for them originally. Later no arborists in public works so just got a streets crew to shove it into a leftover space of a previously built road, replant the trees when they'd die, didn't bother with the appropriate species, etc.

1920s 1st Ave in Seattle after with no trees.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but the facts are urban trees in tight spaces last longer with them than without, small planters aren't great for longevity, for the tree or the sidewalk + sometimes, good things have to be mitigated for so other good things can happen.

FYI I did landscaping and forest restoration for years.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Soil and Water in the Life of a Street Tree

This is the second post in the series Understanding the Urban Forest from the Ground Up. Part one can be read here. Unlike other forms of infrastructure, urban forests are also an ecosystem. As a…

streets.mn

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh, these columnar maples probably only have 10 years left at best; the era in which they were planted didn't employ things like structural soils or
Silva cells, so in those tight planters they probably only have so much life left. Revised landscape design could ensure new trees would last longer.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

This could work

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Suggestion: Ride out with a small car floor jack on your bike, and use it to relocate the barrier into the car lane at like 3AM. Then you'll get to see how intensely fast it gets fixed when it impacts drivers.

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Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 1d

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

The onus really should be on the City to increase tree canopy and alleviate the heat islands created by their pavement, not the adjacent residents

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d

That place has got to be all bots at this point ya

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell saw Bladerunner and was like "yes, that"

a woman with blue hair says you look lonely

ALT: a woman with blue hair says you look lonely

media.tenor.com

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2d

This is Sara Nelson's dream of us "getting off our phones and interacting with the city"

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone elected who runs on "how cool AI is" automatically loses my vote

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 3d

If you already have Ryobi 18v batteries you NEED this air compressor, my god is it luxury. Digital gauge with auto-off is unreal.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 3d

For real:
Side streets
Safeway
Whole Foods
QFC

A sea of parking between those

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