CHALLENGE: Describe IN 10 WORDS OR LESS what you think is the most important action, program or change YOUR CITY should achieve in 2025 to help it become a better, smarter and more responsible CITY FOR PEOPLE this year! #NewYearsResolutions
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allow pop up and temporary start up businesses and food trucks, withOUT having to pay permits that cost the entire of the profits, permits should be free or just a few for processing
that's true and fortunately happening where i live. at least in the center and at peak times.
it's not free but the so-called climate ticket is affordable.
What a great challenge! There are so many needs. I’d my city to create a mental health and wellness outreach program to replace the work that local policing undertakes.
I’ve been saying this since it first opened, and it’s so weird that the urbanists I knew thought it was fine.
Alaskan Way is so wide that we could put in a new row of buildings with pedestrian streets on either side. Now THAT would be “reconnecting the city to the waterfront”.
And while we’re at it, just make streetcar track all the way up through Interbay and into Ballard. Signal priority for the streetcar is a minimum, even now as it runs on Broadway and Jackson.
If we take the bike path and straighten it out, there’s enough room to put waterfront streetcar tracks between it and Alaskan Way. We could extend the First Hill Streetcar down the waterfront.
Let me say that again:
WE COULD EXTEND THE FIRST HILL STREETCAR DOWN THE WATERFRONT.
We don't think it's fine. But personally I'm not sure how to accommodate the car ferry (and I'm not so extremist to say "why do we need a car ferry!?")
I definitely would question having a car ferry, and getting rid of it would have the potential to skyrocket transit ridership.
But if we want to keep it, one lane each way from the terminal to the stadium area would suffice.
It would also be important to keep temporary bus lanes up until Columbia Street (right after the terminal). These lanes can be removed after West Seattle Link Extension opens. We could either add temporary lanes, or wait until it opens.
We do need some of it for freight between our port bits. But freight doesn't need to mean a surface highway they promised to reduce "someday" (if/when they build Ballard Link)
No we dont.
And the ferry approach could be buried too.
The surface of the planet should not be prioritized for cars, but for people.
The waterfront nor the city has no need for Alaskan way vehicle traffic.
Things will work fine without that asphalt there.
It’s just a temple to the cult of car.
I love the Pioneer Square and Chinatown International District neighborhoods, and the small businesses need some vehicle delivery traffic -- we have to rethink the movement of things throughout the whole downtown grid, not just one road. I AGREE that the current waterfront is still a car temple!
I have absolutely no interest in arguing for cars at all. I'm not even dedicated to capitalism. But I am absolutely an advocate for a lot of the smaller businesses that need freight and port traffic -- or work with the port -- and until we come up with better alts for them, ban cars not trucks.
Lobby city to improve and maintain sidewalks especially in winter. Walks include resting spots and no slants that only benefit laneways. City could give out boot ice/slush grippers too. Imagine!
Easy win - pedestrianized streets with bars and restaurants, but also public seating! I just want to sit and eat a sandwich away from traffic! Can still open to vehicles part of the day for access.
Seattle should encourage families to live downtown. Convert empty office space into day-care facilities & businesses that serve families. Families take care for and invest places where they sleep at night. Stop catering to transients. Looking @ you, Amazon. Your workers should live where they work.
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it's not free but the so-called climate ticket is affordable.
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#auspol
#Canberra
Yay me
Why do we need that road other than access to the ferry terminal?
It makes the waterfront worse and isn’t critical for the city.
Alaskan Way is so wide that we could put in a new row of buildings with pedestrian streets on either side. Now THAT would be “reconnecting the city to the waterfront”.
Let me say that again:
WE COULD EXTEND THE FIRST HILL STREETCAR DOWN THE WATERFRONT.
But if we want to keep it, one lane each way from the terminal to the stadium area would suffice.
And the ferry approach could be buried too.
The surface of the planet should not be prioritized for cars, but for people.
The waterfront nor the city has no need for Alaskan way vehicle traffic.
Things will work fine without that asphalt there.
It’s just a temple to the cult of car.
Deliveries happen in cities without direct car access all the time.
The road needs to go. It’s less than valueless to the city. Unless cars are your god.
House Everyone.
Less private, more public transport.
#CarBloat
Multiple items, but Provincial support to boost these is essential, in the city that funds the province.
Quality of life is declining, as car-centric policies are forced on city.
Cancel the removal of bike lanes on Bloor Street, Toronto.
And park trucks in the driveway, not on the street.
2026 - opening Cross River Rail (scheduled.)
2025 - we need better linking bus routes and more frequent services
*But not on fault lines, unstable hills, or flood paths.
more+better bike lanes,
more+better+cheaper transit
(that's ten words, and about San Francisco)
of all abilities can
move freely safely.
Better Mayor than Eric Adams.
Definitely not a Republican.