Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley.bsky.social
Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at Albion Place N and N 34th Street, next to Fremont Brewing.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at Albion Place N and N 34th Street, next to Fremont Brewing.
Covington CM Joseph Cimaomo, talking at the last regional transit committee mtg of 2025, issued a plea for better transit service in SE King County.
"I would like to be able to take a bus from Covington to North Bend, without having to transfer 8 different times and go over 3 different highways."
"I would like to be able to take a bus from Covington to North Bend, without having to transfer 8 different times and go over 3 different highways."
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Covington CM Joseph Cimaomo, talking at the last regional transit committee mtg of 2025, issued a plea for better transit service in SE King County.
"I would like to be able to take a bus from Covington to North Bend, without having to transfer 8 different times and go over 3 different highways."
"I would like to be able to take a bus from Covington to North Bend, without having to transfer 8 different times and go over 3 different highways."
Girmay Zahilay's campaign website for Executive has been updated since the election, with the "policy priorities" page now gone.
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Girmay Zahilay's campaign website for Executive has been updated since the election, with the "policy priorities" page now gone.
More than nine years after the process started, the "Save Madison Valley" building is finally getting close to opening its doors to residents.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
More than nine years after the process started, the "Save Madison Valley" building is finally getting close to opening its doors to residents.
Here's a question: why is the county council set to add a provision to the county budget essentially neutering the force and effect of the requests that it's making within that very budget?
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Here's a question: why is the county council set to add a provision to the county budget essentially neutering the force and effect of the requests that it's making within that very budget?
What do we have here, in the International District Chinatown Station pocket track?
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What do we have here, in the International District Chinatown Station pocket track?
Trying to embrace the long pacific northwest winter that we're heading directly into. But it's a hard thing to embrace.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Trying to embrace the long pacific northwest winter that we're heading directly into. But it's a hard thing to embrace.
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver who hit a 2-year-old child and then fled the scene at Alki Avenue SW near 61st Ave SW.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver who hit a 2-year-old child and then fled the scene at Alki Avenue SW near 61st Ave SW.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
Driver was last seen heading south on Alki.
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at NW 45th Street and NW Leary Way in Ballard.
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at NW 45th Street and NW Leary Way in Ballard.
Incredible to me that the Evergreen Point and Yarrow Point flyer stops on 520 exist as some of nicest bus rapid transit infrastructure in the region but don't count at all in Washington's transit oriented development bill.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Incredible to me that the Evergreen Point and Yarrow Point flyer stops on 520 exist as some of nicest bus rapid transit infrastructure in the region but don't count at all in Washington's transit oriented development bill.
This slide goes a long way into showing how 2026 will be the most impactful period of board decisions in two decades.
Heck of a time for a brand new Seattle Mayor to join the board, if you ask me.
(Neither Wilson nor Harrell are here. Harrell's Deputy Mayor, Jessyn Farrell, is.)
Heck of a time for a brand new Seattle Mayor to join the board, if you ask me.
(Neither Wilson nor Harrell are here. Harrell's Deputy Mayor, Jessyn Farrell, is.)
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This slide goes a long way into showing how 2026 will be the most impactful period of board decisions in two decades.
Heck of a time for a brand new Seattle Mayor to join the board, if you ask me.
(Neither Wilson nor Harrell are here. Harrell's Deputy Mayor, Jessyn Farrell, is.)
Heck of a time for a brand new Seattle Mayor to join the board, if you ask me.
(Neither Wilson nor Harrell are here. Harrell's Deputy Mayor, Jessyn Farrell, is.)
This morning transit advocates from around Central Puget Sound gathered together to bring one message to the Sound Transit board: "build the damn trains."
This afternoon the board is holding its first retreat since the announcement of the $30-$40 billion shortfall through 2046.
This afternoon the board is holding its first retreat since the announcement of the $30-$40 billion shortfall through 2046.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This morning transit advocates from around Central Puget Sound gathered together to bring one message to the Sound Transit board: "build the damn trains."
This afternoon the board is holding its first retreat since the announcement of the $30-$40 billion shortfall through 2046.
This afternoon the board is holding its first retreat since the announcement of the $30-$40 billion shortfall through 2046.
SDOT just announced they'll be completing the final block of the Beach Drive SW Healthy Street on Alki Point, finally connecting the multiuse path to 63rd Ave SW. This block was not included in the original project, installed in 2024.
Work will start before the end of the year.
Work will start before the end of the year.
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
SDOT just announced they'll be completing the final block of the Beach Drive SW Healthy Street on Alki Point, finally connecting the multiuse path to 63rd Ave SW. This block was not included in the original project, installed in 2024.
Work will start before the end of the year.
Work will start before the end of the year.
Nearly 1,100 days after safety advocates painted a guerrilla crosswalk at Harvard Ave E and E Olive Way (and SDOT washed it off), there is now a permanent crosswalk here.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Nearly 1,100 days after safety advocates painted a guerrilla crosswalk at Harvard Ave E and E Olive Way (and SDOT washed it off), there is now a permanent crosswalk here.
County CM Teresa Mosqueda's office is advancing a budget amendment that looks at tweaks to county water taxi service, including a potential new "triangle route" between Vashon, Des Moines and Downtown Seattle.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
County CM Teresa Mosqueda's office is advancing a budget amendment that looks at tweaks to county water taxi service, including a potential new "triangle route" between Vashon, Des Moines and Downtown Seattle.
Fascinated by the "Bruce Harrell was too anti-car" voter in the West Seattle Blog comments.
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fascinated by the "Bruce Harrell was too anti-car" voter in the West Seattle Blog comments.
The most interesting part of this ruling is that the Growth Management Hearings Board looked at the record and concluded that the SoDo housing bill would only produce around 375 units of housing, not the 990 that has been discussed by both the city and the Port.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The most interesting part of this ruling is that the Growth Management Hearings Board looked at the record and concluded that the SoDo housing bill would only produce around 375 units of housing, not the 990 that has been discussed by both the city and the Port.
WA's middle housing law doesn't include a size limit on cottage housing. Keep in mind that Clyde Hill is only required to allow up to two units per lot anyway.
They have to go to Merriam-Webster to find a defense for the idea that cottage housing should be smaller than a single-family house.
They have to go to Merriam-Webster to find a defense for the idea that cottage housing should be smaller than a single-family house.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
WA's middle housing law doesn't include a size limit on cottage housing. Keep in mind that Clyde Hill is only required to allow up to two units per lot anyway.
They have to go to Merriam-Webster to find a defense for the idea that cottage housing should be smaller than a single-family house.
They have to go to Merriam-Webster to find a defense for the idea that cottage housing should be smaller than a single-family house.
"The City Council finds that an exemption under SEPA for this action is necessary to prevent an imminent threat to public health and safety through construction of overly large cottage housing."
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"The City Council finds that an exemption under SEPA for this action is necessary to prevent an imminent threat to public health and safety through construction of overly large cottage housing."
I'm tuned into the Clyde Hill City Council tonight, which just approved an *emergency* ordinance scaling back the city's middle housing code when it comes to cottage housing, adding a 1,500 square foot maximum size.
Clyde Hill is apparently concerned that large cottages won't be affordable?
Clyde Hill is apparently concerned that large cottages won't be affordable?
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I'm tuned into the Clyde Hill City Council tonight, which just approved an *emergency* ordinance scaling back the city's middle housing code when it comes to cottage housing, adding a 1,500 square foot maximum size.
Clyde Hill is apparently concerned that large cottages won't be affordable?
Clyde Hill is apparently concerned that large cottages won't be affordable?
Meanwhile in Kenmore, progressive council candidate @tracyforkenmore.bsky.social is now just 37 votes behind her opponent, Joe Marshall.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Meanwhile in Kenmore, progressive council candidate @tracyforkenmore.bsky.social is now just 37 votes behind her opponent, Joe Marshall.
Kurt Dresner still trails incumbent Jon Pascal. But right now it looks like three of the four Cherish Kirkland-aligned "sanity slate" candidates are going to lose.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Kurt Dresner still trails incumbent Jon Pascal. But right now it looks like three of the four Cherish Kirkland-aligned "sanity slate" candidates are going to lose.
JUST IN: Washington's Growth Management Hearings Board has invalidated the Seattle City Council's ordinance legalizing housing in a small slice of SoDo near the sports stadiums, siding with the Port of Seattle in its appeal against the move.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
JUST IN: Washington's Growth Management Hearings Board has invalidated the Seattle City Council's ordinance legalizing housing in a small slice of SoDo near the sports stadiums, siding with the Port of Seattle in its appeal against the move.