Mike Bollich-Ziegler
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Mike Bollich-Ziegler
@mb-z.bsky.social
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Writer and enforcer of collective bargaining agreements for a labor union. I’m into home diy renovations, cities that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists, and too many podcasts about tech & . Husband & dad. He/him.

📍Federal Way, WA. STL born and raised.
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Something was “upgraded” at Valley Communication’s Dispatch Center, and ever since, all agencies dispatched through them have disappeared from @pulsepoint.bsky.social.

For a couple weeks, a message was up saying it was being worked on, but now there’s nothing. Big bummer if this access goes away. ☹️
Screenshot of the PulsePoint app
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This new signal gets an F from me. It has a zig zag pattern, the time to walk is around 10 seconds, and you have to wait TWO LIGHT cycles with a pause in the median to fully cross.

Can’t make the drivers wait.
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I’ll collect my bet winnings. Federal Way says they will have it operating by tomorrow AM.

Also, this is the first new signal city-wide since 2016! Almost 10 years without a new traffic signal.
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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CM Honda also had a line of questioning last Federal Way Land Use and Transportation meeting on temporarily closing a street for the farmers market asking “but where will people park?”

Send her an email, especially if you live in Federal Way. Here is what I sent her after hearing her comments.
Email screenshot: To: Susan Honda <susan.honda@federalwaywa.gov> Cc: EJ Walsh <EJ.Walsh@federalwaywa.gov> Dear Councilmember Honda, I was listening in to the LUTC meeting this evening, and I wanted to share a comment on the discussion around the agenda item to accept a $500k grant to improve pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure near Federal Way High School. It was disappointing, to say the least, to hear your apprehension to support creating a sidewalk in our city out of what sounded like a higher concern of where the residents may have to park their car on a publicly owned city street. One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Federal Way in 2020 is how pristine much of the pavement is, and I've since had numerous encounters and experiences on how incomplete and inadequate the sidewalk and cycling infrastructure is. I appreciate the improvements when and where they come, but this unbalanced prioritization is reflected in the city's budget and funding. This project is a good example of a better balance as I know how expensive new sidewalks are. I live in eighborhood, and the sidewalks are patchwork at best where live but more often missing completely. My son and other kids at walk along a main residential cut-through to arterial streets with regularly speeding cars, and they are often forced into traffic due to cars being parked along the street on their way to school. I am doubtful we will ever see a sidewalk. I can somewhat empathize with residents who have come to expect to park their car right in front of their house on a city street, but their minor inconvenience should not have any weight on decisions to accept funding for a sidewalk, especially one on a route to a school. The city should be going after every dollar it can to address our inequitable and lacking sidewalk infrastructure, even at the expense of someone having to park a bit farther away. Narrower streets are also safer streets as it forces drivers to slow down and be more cautious. Feder…
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Less than a week until the Federal Way @sound-transit.bsky.social Station opens and a signaled pedestrian crossing at the corner of the transit center and dangerous 320th isn’t done. Progress on it has crawled for months.

Unsure if it’s a Federal Way or Sound Transit to-do, but my money is on FW.
Overhead Google Maps view of the federal way transit center with the intersection of S 320th and 21st Ave S circled.
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Later this evening at 10:46pm a driver in a Jeep hit a person in a wheelchair in this same intersection. I believe they were transported to the hospital.

This is one block from the Federal Way transit center and new light rail station.

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Screenshot of the pulse point app with the following info on the incident: Traffic Collision 320TH ST & PETE VON REICHBAUER WAY, FEDERAL WAY, WA South King Fire and Rescue Assigned Units Cleared A364, B362, E364, RED1 Yesterday 11:23:20 PM Yesterday 10:46:06 PM Closed (37 Minutes)
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Federal Way Pedestrian Hit & Run: A 42-year-old female crossing the street at S 320th and Pete Von Reichbauer Way S was hit by a driver who fled the scene about 30 minutes ago. openmhz.com/events/691cc...
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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It's more chaotic than this, but here is a glimpse of what the intersection usually looks like every day for about 20 minutes during dismissal. It is terrifying to see the daily close calls between cars and kids when I do pick-up, and all of us, especially our kids, deserve so much better.
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Some credit to FW: Today a city traffic engineer, school principal, resource officer, and lots of cones were out to make dismissal safer at my kid's school after weeks of pressure & outreach. I've seen SO many close calls. More is needed, but this was nice to see (I am sure many parents are pissed).
Traffic cones line a neighborhood street to make the traffic flow better and smoother.
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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An especially infuriating story from @marisakabas.bsky.social this morning about a Mass. child being abducted by ICE.

For anyone not outraged, as Marisa says, we should be fighting for accountability through due process and not from lawless secret police.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...
Screenshot text: There is a natural inclination, especially among Americans steeped in our culture of mass incarceration, to judge the propriety of a person's punishment not based on what they've done, but on how deserving one believes they are of receiving justice. On its face, any 13-year-old kid that allegedly made threats and was found to be in possession of a knife should be afforded the rights of due process in the juvenile court system. But because this boy was born in another country, because he and his family were asylum-seekers (authorized to work legally in the US) and not American citizens, and regardless of any piece of his personal story or history that led him to this point, some believe he is not owed those same rights. This boy-this child— deserves to rot in a federal facility, they say, and to be dragged across state lines away from his home. And for some, his mere existence in this country is crime enough. But it's important to bust these myths. It's crucial to remember, as so many speakers at the Everett City Council meeting reminded us, that all of our safety is intertwined. DHS and its many agencies are trying to turn neighbors against one another. But our neighbors are not our enemies-in fact, they are the ones most likely to protect us.
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The photo for this project is the same pedestrian path I have contacted the city no less than 20 times over the last year because it’s blocked by a car which forces kids from the elementary school around the corner to walk in the street.

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October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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They are better off bringing Prison Mike onstage.
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Michael Scott from The Office from the episode where he plays “Prison Mike.”
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Full send to the ceiling on these upper cabinets. The backsplash installer did future owners a solid by leaving space to lower them, but what were they thinking installing these so high AND taking the listing photos from a low angle making them look even more ridiculous.

redf.in/gee8DE
Real estate listing of a kitchen with blue cabinets with upper cabinets flush with the ceiling and so high can see the bottom of the cabinets in the photo. Real estate listing of a kitchen with blue cabinets with upper cabinets flush with the ceiling and so high can see the bottom of the cabinets in the photo.
August 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Not doing so well so far, thankfully.
August 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Just researching local water district commissioner candidates.
Ilya Kukhar 28210 46TH AVE S AUBURN, WA 98001 (206) 981-7569 Justheilya@gmail.com Education: Common Sense Occupation: Nonsense Eliminator Statement: Vote for me or else you want dirty water. King County Elections does not correct punctuation, WA man posed as ICE agent for YouTube stunt, police say By Catalina Gaitán Seattle Times staff reporter A Washington man accused of circling the parking lot of a Ukrainian market in a fake Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV reportedly told Fife police he had used the car for a video "skit" he posted on Youlube. Ilya Kukhar, 26, pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree criminal impersonation, a gross misdemeanor, according to a Fife Municipal Court
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The solution to this at the Federal Way transit center was to completely demo it and make the new bus loop with no overhead structure except for small bus shelters. 😢
Large transit center building that offers protection from sun and rain. A sea of concrete with a small bus shelter.
June 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Hate to be a killjoy, but I don’t think @afacwa.org crews need more drunk and high passengers onboard to deal with as a result of a company advertising how to get high while flying.
May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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“Neither snow nor rain nor heat…” nor flash flood emergency, apparently. Stay safe, @apwu.bsky.social 🫡
April 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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New Federal Way Transit Center bus loop review:

Pros: Less bird poop and real-time departure screens.

Cons: Multi minute walk from the parking garage to the bus bay vs ~30 seconds before. Small bus shelters vs a GIANT roof that sheltered everything and everyone in a region that is known to rain!
Photo of the old bus loop with a giant roof that covered all bays and had space for everyone underneath. New bus loop photo with a traditional bus shelter on the right side.
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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lmao
iOS text message: It's Nancy Pelosi. Trump is just hours from his Capitol speech. Chip in $15 to make his Project 2025 agenda BACKFIRE. > pttfuture.us/ np263?t=KssCTu
March 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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GSA wants to sell the 37-story Henry Jackson Federal building in Seattle, one of the largest buildings they want to close. An IRS call center is the biggest tenant serving AK, WA, ID, and OR, in addition housing the IRS criminal investigation unit, VA, and Coast Guard.
March 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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NYT push alert team rn: “Hold my MAGA hat.”
NYT push alert linking to a shitty opinion column.
March 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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And why yes, I am wearing the eTc x I-5 Commuters tee today.
White tshirt showing Seattle area landmarks in the background of a colorful drawing of an overhead view of traffic. One of the cars has two gorillas (I5 Commuters incognito) yelling at two cars saying “You’re not a bus!” to a SOV in a bus lane and “texter!” to someone texting while driving.
February 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM