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Imagine starting a petition to keep this banned from your neighborhood.

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Sound Transit's monthly system expansion report dropped today, and it lists a potential revenue service opening for East Link of January 31, and an opening for Federal Way of March 14. Those dates are awful close to one another. www.soundtransit.org/sites/defaul...

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The Pike Place Market Historical Commission held an entire special meeting this week about the fact that the owner of the Virginia Inn took the business's sign home with him during lease negotiations.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

A City of Seattle bid solicitation confirms what has long been feared: the book conveyor belt at the Central Library, broken for a few years now, is being removed and replaced with a regular book drop.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Spokane Port Townsend Bellingham Bremerton www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/06/b...

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A Bruce Harrell campaign email states that at the candidate forum this week - the one where he stated he opposes allowing more midrise apartment buildings and wants to prioritize traffic enforcement instead of traffic safety infrastructure - people were "cheering for his record of results."

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

It's hard for me to think of something that would make me angrier than the voters in my city taking away my library privileges to keep their taxes low.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Seattle Fire just responded to a driver hitting someone walking at 20th Ave and E Union Street. This was a hit and run. The person who was hit is being transported to the hospital.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The city of Clyde Hill is officially exploring the idea of pulling out of the King County Library System, in order to maintain existing tax levels when they'll need to increase the city's levy in response to a budget crisis.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Tonight I'm a fly on the wall at the Convening of the Modal Boards, the first time I've ever seen the freight, bike, pedestrian and transit boards in the room together.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Full 2 Line preparations are getting real now.

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In an email sent just now, Rob Saka says he is strongly opposed to adding 150 new parking stalls along Alki Avenue.

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Next Friday, June 13, Sound Transit will test out how 4 minute peak Link service will operate once the 2 Line opens next year, by running a single-car train in between active trains between Lynnwood and Stadium Stations from 5am to 9am. Riders won't be able to board the test trains.

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A presentation at the Sound Transit board meeting today drops the news that ST is working to roll out open payment and the ability to pay by tapping credit/debit cards ahead of next year's World Cup events.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

One thing that is becoming clear to me during this ST3 presentation at the design commission is how many critical pieces of legislation for these projects are going to be going through Rob Saka's office in the next few years.

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I'm pretty sure the "1,400 people" Moore is referencing here are random people who signed a Change.org petition, as if they are somehow owed changes by the city.

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After a drawn-out debate at the Sound Transit board last year over station placement in South Lake Union, the city's ST3 team is at the Design Commission this morning talking about the "advantages" of consolidating the future Denny and South Lake Union stations into one.

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At the Seattle Council's Comp Plan committee right now, Cathy Moore is very mad at OPCD staff for trimming boundaries on a bunch of neighborhood & urban centers but NOT in Maple Leaf. She's arguing that "drainage" & the existence of a neighborhood greenway mean the city should have scaled it back.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

So much for "the Mayor's" growth strategy.

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Check out @typewriteralley.bsky.social's story on Maritza Rivera (and Cathy Moore's) failed effort to wrap Sound Transit up in more red tape by forcing them to create bespoke Community Outreach Plans for every single light rail permit in Seattle: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/05/c...

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Don't worry, Seattle's new Climate Action Plan will be ready by then.

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Yesterday's committee vote, which included a withdrawal of the original amendment opposed by transit advocates, means that the light rail permit streamlining bill is able to move forward without any poison pills. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/05/c...

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Shoreline made a commitment to do it, but it's notable that all of the cities on this list so far are not in King County.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Bremerton City Council just voted 6-1 to become the fourth Washington city to completely drop any mandated off-street parking in new development, following in the steps of Spokane, Port Townsend, and Bellingham.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Personally I think candidate forum questions should force candidates to deal with real-life trade-offs that they'll have to face as an elected official.

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This is pretty much Cathy Moore's position on middle housing.

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Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone on a bike at Interlake Ave N and N 49th Street. The 20-year-old who was hit is being transported to the hospital with significant injuries after being reportedly hit at 35 mph.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

TL;DR the land use committee adopted a new amendment that considerably scaled back the new requirements around public outreach. It's now not expected to add any significant time or cost to light rail projects. Full vote next week.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments