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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 3 hours ago • 6 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 22 hours 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 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Six more lanes bro

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 4 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 6 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.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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 6 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 6 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 6 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.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

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.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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 7 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 7 days ago • 234 comments

reconfiguring streets for people is great policy, actually

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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 7 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 9 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 9 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 9 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 11 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 13 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 16 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 17 days ago • 6 comments

Did you know that Spokane is building 27 miles of new bike infrastructure by 2027?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks all for coming out! Bikes for sure

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

AMAZING community bike ride night!!! Thank you to everyone who came out and to the lovely @lpangborn.bsky.social for being our tour guide and telling us about all the cool bike projects in the works!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

📷 for @inlander.com story about Spokane’s traffic safety initiatives as seven people have died in traffic collisions this year. 📷1) Charles Partlow crosses 📷2) W. Sunset Hwy. at S. Lewis St., Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Spokane, Wash. www.inlander.com/news/spokane...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

THURSDAY Join me and other folks from @rangemedia.co for a bike ride checking out the future bike infrastructure you probably don't know about! Plus some stuff about zoning and building regulations. 5:30pm, 9mi, party pace End at Brick West

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City link.theoverheadwire.com/jt8xg @mcsweeneys.net

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Spokane City Council passed the Play Streets & Neighborhood Block Party Program ordinance. This new regulation allows neighbors to temporarily close non-arterial streets for recreational activities and community gatherings. #SpecialEvent #BlockParty www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Why do I spend countless hours of my time advocating for better transit? Because I know what is possible. Spokane has the potential to be the most livable, vibrant, and innovative city in North America. Now is the time.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

RANGE’s community bike ride is THIS Thursday, May 22! We’ll meet at Spokane City Hall at 5:30pm, bike along the Centennial Trail, and end at Brick West Brewing Co (1318 W 1st Ave) for some socializing! The ride is led by our very own @lpangborn.bsky.social‬ & should take around 90 minutes

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

imagine a proactive, instead of a reactive, DOT. safer streets. better mobility. improved air quality. etc etc.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Do you assume that funding public transit in the US is a mostly left-wing cause? Here's a surprising crosstab from a recent statistically valid survey from the Spokane, Washington area. 85% of conservatives say that funding transit is at least "somewhat important!" Source: lnkd.in/g2gF7Y23

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments