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My dream is that King County Metro adds the planned Lake City-Nothgate-Green Lake-Latona-U District route (numbered 1994 in their expansion plan), and that Seattle redesigns 50th to serve both biking and this new bus route along with safer crosswalks to access the new bus stops.
Yeah, LLMs are not yet ready to take over Seattle Bike Blog.
Aerial view shows about 48 car parking spots here usually. But multi-floor garages need space for the ramps and pillars and such, so you could maybe cram like 30-something spots per floor in a hypothetical garage on this lot.
Someone called the cops on kids riding gas minibikes on the sidewalks, and a cop hit a 13-year-old with their police cruiser. An excerpt:
King County Council thinks Seattle should send Hunts Point $24 per mansion resident. That would barely buy 5 minutes of yacht fuel!
I do, however, give a fuck about Bicycle Sundays Co-Founder Mia Mann's 1967 intentions for Lake Washington Boulevard (her proposed Council resolution text, which I don't believe ever got passed):
Reply from the ST Opinions Editor after I asked if “Nat Lehmans” is a real name or a pen name:
UPDATE: I hunted down the new LimeBike. It's the best shared micromobility device I've ever tried, and it's not even close. Lime nailed the details. It's a joy to ride. This isn't sponsored. The bike genuinely exceeded my expectations. www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/05/08/l...
For decades the Broad Street trench cut a diagonal across the street grid between South Lake Union and Lower Queen Anne/Seattle Center, rendering the entire area nearly uncrossable on foot or bike while also making it nearly impossible to build in the lots that remained. Truly deranged urban design.
But the detail that really got me what when they try to say this happened “without public engagement" even though they know there were years of public engagement about this b/c they were part of it. Below is a chart from a report they were part of detailing a public survey of more than 3K people.
In 2015 the city spent $237M rebuilding Mercer to be a 7-lane monster of a street with no transit and only a bike path to go under Aurora (b/c there was no other option). It's all for cars, and traffic on it sucks. This is exactly the point! www.seattlebikeblog.com/2015/05/05/m...
Won't somebody please think of the car drivers?!? They are always so overlooked, forced to receive nearly all federal and state transportation funding and occupy nearly every inch of road space and use freeways that destroy neighborhoods and store their cars for free on public roadways.
Oh my god this is too much. Speeding up the county's least reliable bus route is the same as declaring war on cars.
At my parents’ house in St Louis, I found what is probably my last ever purchase from the old Elliott Bay Books in Pioneer Square. I miss that place!
Visiting family in Missouri, and my kid must be missing home because she just drew an Orca card and reader.
I’ve done it. I took the rain cover off the cargo bike. So if the weather suddenly changes and starts pouring, you can all blame me.
UPDATE: I rode the new Yesler Way bike lanes with the kid yesterday. For the most part, it was simple and low-stress, just how it should be. Read the story update for more.
We followed the signs to the “Mercer Slough Overlook.” This was it.
And if you go to the top level of the massive parking garage (paid for with transit dollars), there’s this sad little metal ramp they call a “lookover.” It actually is a nice view. If it’s raining, you can even see exactly how cars ruin waterways:
Hiking through Mercer Slough is also amazing. I’ve biked through on the I-90 Trail of course, but I’ve never hiked near the blueberry farm. So cool. Steps from South Bellevue Station.