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ok maybe the American flag scolds had a point, this photo goes hard

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Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Jail.

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Spokane is a PBTA, though, so would love to see transit-reliant folks in those two seats that @nondriver.bsky.social won in #WALeg. Transparency is better for transit riders.

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A transparent and competitive process benefits everyone, including the candidates. Conversely…

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Why are so many transit boards like this?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A secretive process combined with the task force’s antagonistic approach to public involvement ensures the candidate will have a difficult time building credibility, because no matter how qualified they may be, it looks as though the position is handed to them. www.kxly.com/news/spokane...

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From 1:45 pm until 11 pm, we were on the streets of Spokane, documenting and live-streaming peaceful community protests against ICE's detainment of two young men that were escalated by state violence. Here's everything we know: rangemedia.co/everything-w...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

As polite and noble as it may be to join your city’s advisory board on planning, transit, housing, etc, it’s designed to keep you occupied from doing exactly this 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I need you to chip in a few bucks a month to subscribe to @rangemedia.co. They are doing absolutely essential work. rangemedia.co/support-us

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Tonight Chief Hall of @spokanepd.bsky.social said the cops under his command only used smoke and pepper balls tonight, not tear gas. My friend Barry characterizes this cloud as smoke, but a couple other friends at the game said they felt like they and their kids had been tear gassed.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I am just absolutely gobsmacked that SPD escalated this so much for no reason. There needs to be accountability.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

When we push for walkability, bike lanes, and good transit, it's called "forcing a lifestyle." But when the auto industry traps you in a car-dependent society and drains your wallet, that’s somehow called “freedom.” Got it...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This is the fundamental problem: it’s a third rail of Spokane politics. The “failure to finish the NSC” has defined the region’s relationship with the Westside for three generations. When I advocated canceling it, I got the most absurd messages even from people who agree with me on everything else.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I sat at a bar with a couple from Spokane one time who told me directly that they had decided not to have children because of the looming threat of climate change...and then pivoted to explaining the necessity of building the North Spokane Corridor to me.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Six more lanes bro

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

What happens when you start with the result you want and then work backward.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

expanding highways does not reduce VMTs. this is climate arson. how are democratic electeds so terrible at this?

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

In California, transportation investments are judged based on whether they increase or decrease vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In Washington, SEPA analysis uses harmful and voodoo-ish metrics like level of service (LOS). #waleg should require WSDOT and local jurisdictions to use VMT instead.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I asked Governor Ferguson how the North Spokane Corridor will reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled when multiple speakers discussed the development opportunities it will open north of Spokane. This was the answer I got.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Every bus stop with a person sitting on the curb because there is no bench (just a sign on a pole) is a policy failure.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Car culture is sitting in your car for 20+ minutes instead of getting out and walking into the restaurant.

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We’re at the West Central Community Center’s Neighbor Day! A.M. Cannon Park until 6:30.

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Sorry kids, didn’t see you there without any hi-viz. Didn't your parents teach you road safety?

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

For some members of STA's Board, control is their top (maybe sole) priority. Not only does this approach hurt our region, it also hurts those they purport to help through nepotic actions.

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Guerrilla crosswalks drive city officials crazy, but they're a remarkably effective street safety tactic. Sympathetic media coverage is all but guaranteed -- esp when local leaders overreact.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

A tainted process hurts the preferred candidate more than anyone else by fostering an atmosphere of distrust and disdain within Spokane Transit. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Think about the process a city goes through to hire a City Manager. It usually involves multiple public engagement opportunities, including things like interviews at Council meetings. Why do transit agencies act so differently? Seattle deserved better. Spokane deserves better.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Despite pushback last year on the lack of a public engagement process in the hunt for a new CEO, the Spokane Transit Authority task force just voted to limit board and public engagement to a single candidate selected by the four-person task force.

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My favorite quote in this quote came from a transit advocate Sarah Rose, who described this version of public engagement as “like when a parent is introducing you to your new stepparent after they’re already married.”

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By putting forth a single candidate for consideration, the CEO search task force kneecaps their preferred candidate by ensuring an asterisk will always be attached to their tenure as CEO.

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This tainted process does a disservice to everyone, including the public, the STA Board of Directors, and the sole candidate the four person task force put forward for consideration. rangemedia.co/sta-ceo-sear...

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I just realized that “inclusionary zoning costs will be paid for by developers” is the exact same argument as “tariffs will be paid by other countries, not U.S. consumers”

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

submitted 12 days ago • 233 comments

reconfiguring streets for people is great policy, actually

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When did you last ask teens what they want in a community planning effort? 2020 research: "89% of young adults in the UK aged 16-18 have never been asked about their neighbourhood" www.thedeveloper.live/opinion/enga.... #planning #UrbanPlanning #Youth

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

At the county courthouse this morning for a meeting of the county Transportation Benefit District, for a discussion of utilizing the county's TBD taxing authority for the first time since it was constituted in 2014.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A 2022 study gave people a free chauffeur for a few weeks, to simulate a world where lots of people have self driving cars. - Total VMT increased 60% (!!!) - Total trips increased 25% - Transit use decreased 70%, biking down 38%, walking down 10% ucits.org/research_pro...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

#deleteUber (again). I always try to take local transit instead of ride hail — even if it takes longer, way longer. If you can afford ride hail you can afford the time to ride public transit. If the bus exists, ride it. Riding uber is funding a system of mobility haves and have nots.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

90% of the reason cities exist is to minimise transport costs.

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If these people actually cared about trees, they’d be clamoring for the entire city to be upzoned to prevent sprawl.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is exactly what we need in #waleg. Currently, only one transit agency in the state (Sound Transit) can do transit-oriented development, and 80% of units need to be <80% AMI. Lift that restriction and allow all agencies to develop their land. Add permitting authority and it would be 🤌.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

For most of my friends who have little kids, the #1 neighborhood concern is speeding drivers and unsafe streets. Mobilizing families with little kids should be priority #1 for bike/ped advocacy groups. Harder for politicians to ignore families with kids than stereotypical young, fearless cyclists

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

does single stair make biking more possible? maybe. is it a coincidence that many cities with the highest uptake in bicycling also have courtyards where bikes can be stored with level access to the street/bike path?

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments