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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · Aug 7

Economic growth is good, actually.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2h

The streetcar era really was a missed opportunity

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

www.washingtonpost.com

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 3h

Leadership:

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 3h

This is essentially the same “solution” as what urban planners have been doing in our state for the past 20 years, so I guess I don’t really understand what’s surprising or interesting about it.

I mean, it basically just tells us that Gregoire and Smith have been listening to the PNW’s planners…

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16h

I’d much, much rather have this than what WSDOT have advocated over the past fifty years and how that has impacted housing!

Also, it’s not like there’s any realistic path right now to upzoning entire SFH neighborhoods at a scale we’d need to make up for giving up growth on these corridors.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 1d

Daylighting an intersection to make it safer for pedestrians to cross shouldn’t cost more than a few thousand dollars per intersection.

Denver keeps it simple with a few flexposts and some paint or thermoplastic.

Better yet, the bulbouts double as scooter parking.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

Big signs with “free ride to downtown Seattle” would induce a LOT of ridership but I can’t imagine the taxis and shuttle services would love that! 🤣

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

Positive-looking possibility: they legitimately like the idea or directionality of the TOD bill and similar actions.

More negative possibility: they saw the similar, but very dead, initiative to transform El Camino Real in Silicon Valley, which even had the same name. Wonder if there’s overlap.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

to be fair you could also kind of read this as endorsing a bolder version of the TOD bill that included more frequent transit routes…

which is still concentrating growth on these corridors but also very much in the progressive urbanist vogue

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

Bozeman is literally derogatorily called “Bozangeles” by Montanans and locals because of how much demand there is to live there!

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

The airport’s signs are mostly ~fine~ as they do say “Train to Seattle” or something like that. Kind of the Port doing ST’s work.

Didn’t get a photo though.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17h

Yeah, the signage on the way to the station and on the platform is abjectly terrible. There are now ST RTISes on the walkway, but they’re only for Angle Lake trains.

There should be big signs that say NORTHBOUND TO SEATTLE and SOUTHBOUND.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 18h

I was just at the International Downtown Association’s annual conference in D.C. and on a study mission to downtown Denver.

Let me assure that downtown leaders aren’t talking about AI MLK.

We’re talking about flower planters, tables and chairs, and community programming and activations.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 21h

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."...

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 18h

Oh my god, that’s a stellar flex post too! I’m gonna have to go check that out.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 20h

I will forever believe that “simple brick box” is the ultimate building typology. This one is the Ramble Hotel in Denver’s RiNo Arts District.

✅ Repetitive inlaid windows
✅ Unique first floor with “loading dock” openings
✅ Ornamented brickwork
❌ No “facade modulation”
❌ No stepbacks or setbacks

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 20h

I was such a critic of this move, but I’m really happy to have been proven wrong.

SPS and the Public Facilities District have done an excellent job partnering to program the stadium for both community and economic benefit.

kxly.com @kxly.com · 20h

One Spokane Stadium has been open for just over two years, serving as home to 17 different teams and creating a gathering place for the Spokane community.

One Spokane Stadium celebrates two years of bringing community together

SPOKANE, Wash. — One Spokane Stadium has been open for just over two years, serving as home to 17 different teams and creating a gathering place for the Spokane community.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 21h

Seattle is big enough that “talk directly to voters” doesn’t need to mean “do a Queen Anne Community Council town hall.”

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 21h

Part of what I don’t understand is that a lot of these forums or debates have really niche audiences, and it’s not like they are reliably picked up by MSM (which have bigger audiences than the independent outlets).

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 22h

Honest question: why do Seattle’s candidates do so many candidate forums and debates? What value does this exercise in hagiography provide?

Just do interviews! You don’t need to do three or four debates every week!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 22h

This is the first debate that I've seen that Harrell has consistently smiled at. First question, from Suarez, is a real hardball: "What does it mean when we might host a World Series, and what, as mayor, do you do to prepare for the experience?"

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 22h

The “sell into the street” thing seems to be all the time, but this live music and pop-up bar is definitely a GABF thing.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

The signage in the airport is actually pretty good, iirc. The station signage and signage on the trains themselves isn’t great. I’ll try to take a peek when I land today.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Larimer Square is open to pedestrians, and the bars that open up to it are allowed to sell into the street. When I walked by today, there was live music and another bar. There are no restrictions on entry of under-21s, though they obviously can’t buy alcohol.

This is what the entry/exit looks like:

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Several of Denver’s public plazas and streets have become safe consumption areas…

…for craft beer and wine!

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Let’s do it, @citycouncilpaul.bsky.social!

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 1d

There is precisely zero reason a parking-protected bike lane needs to be expensive to install.

This one in Denver has some paint, flexposts, and rubber bumpers. Maybe it cost $15K-20K/block, plus labor, which could credibly be in-house?

Spokane’s own Main Avenue is prime for this.

Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 1d

Daylighting an intersection to make it safer for pedestrians to cross shouldn’t cost more than a few thousand dollars per intersection.

Denver keeps it simple with a few flexposts and some paint or thermoplastic.

Better yet, the bulbouts double as scooter parking.