Just absolute trash. The zoning around where this existing apartment building has SO MUCH single family zoned lots.

Social consequences for public bad behavior – including bad speech! – is how we "keep the temperature down". Sometimes social censure will overreach but that's better than violence! Thank you @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Reply with a photo of a fav pedestrian staircase! Here’s a fav of mine: the Yesler Terrace / Little Saigon hill climb from 2019 in #Seattle. There’s been a lot more construction since! This was built as part of replacing some of the oldest public housing here, connecting First Hill to Little Saigon.

I suppose the Seattle Times won't publish it, so here was my letter in response to Mayor Harrell proposing sales tax increases (!) to fund non-police responses. Today's budget release seems to include yet more money for cops.

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

#Seattle #HarrellHorrorShow

Signs on LWB separating a car path from people space had been moved. So I moved them back. Goodbye LWB for the year I guess as I'm pretty unlikely to bike here when speeding car traffic is common.

Here's a slightly further zoomed out area around the soon to open Judkins Park light rail station.

New fav Seattle GIS dataset: experience.arcgis.com/experience/6...

You can really see how much of Seattle is right of way with this layor that shows it in gray. This is all right of way, mostly devoted to cars (streets and their parking). Here's 4 blocks around Beacon Hill light rail station.

It sounds like 102 might not even get a vote so I made my text about blocking/delaying/increasing cost of housing in Seattle means clearcutting outside Seattle. And also that we have so much public right of way that could be trees. What I prefaced that action with in images.

View west from kid's middle school math classroom this evening just before 6 PM.

I wasn't alone (in my rage and impatience) able
to fully clean up and had to leave piles of plants huddled against the fence on this section of the sidewalk. Numerous thank yous as I worked and one near collision by a northbound person because they couldn't see me working thru the plants.

So instead I went a little south. The eastbound on ramp has an unsignalized crosswalk that isn't visible to a person driving until nearly too late to stop, especially if there's overgrowth.

This spot I wanted to fix at least a little for a while but I don't have the right tools. There's like 3 inches of dirt with ivy growing over the sidewalk. The city appears to have trimmed the section the fallen over bike is in this photo. Seems fresh trimmed.

And @seattledot.bsky.social has a recommendation from 2008 to signalize the ramps which would slow traffic & likely involve widening pedestrian space ! www.seattle.gov/documents/De... (see item 18).

I doubt it's fixed yet but this was the sidewalk on the west side of Rainier just north of the Charles crosswalks on May 17th. I keep meaning to call @seastreetfixers.bsky.social out to it but it's been some busy weeks and weekends.

Finally sitting down because sick but not fully recovered to read Eli Valley's Museum of Degenerates. It's weirdly heartening to read comics from 2015-2017 that aside from names / referenced events they could be from today. No excuses to claim we didn't know. orbooks.com/catalog/muse...

Library & museums in #Washington state received grants from IMLS last year of almost $8.2 million in small chunks that I imagine are all quite important but trivial in the federal budget. A couple counties screenshotted.

www.imls.gov/imls-dashboa...

E-bikes, low vision riders and regulation.

streets.mn/2025/02/05/e...

It's a fantasy story but Gandalf could be speaking to all of us. I think about it regularly and even have this highlighted in my ebook copy.