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jrspnw.bsky.social
Southern boy in the PNW • 🏳️‍🌈 📍Seattle
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A quick walk around Upper Queen Anne shows great examples of larger multi-family buildings coexisting with healthy/developing tree canopies. Adequate space between the sidewalk and the street is more important than the width of a setback, it seems. Road diets = more 🌳🌲

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Let’s do this in Seattle’s Capitol Hill! …but with elevated lanes and multicolor clinkers 🧱🌈🚴‍♂️

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Cities in Washington will have the legal authority to create shared streets, which feature much lower speed limits and put pedestrians first under Senate Bill 5595. Governor Bob Ferguson signed the bill into law Saturday. It will go into effect on July 27. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/g...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Washington's first-in-the-nation shared streets bill, allowing local governments to lower speed limits to 10 mph on specific streets where vehicle traffic must yield to pedestrian, bike, and scooter traffic, is now law. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I saw this cute tote at Metsker Maps today and am determined to replace our current mediocre “Welcome to Washington” highway sign design with this one. Whaddya say, @wsdot.wa.gov?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

South Tacoma: ✅ cute small businesses! ✅ amazing 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ bagels ✅ Sounder station! ❌ tree canopy ❌ adequate crosswalks ❓ gentrification

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A terrible anniversary for Seattle:

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The four stages of tonight’s dinner: Marcella Hazan’s bolognese (with an arugula salad) 🤌🏻🇮🇹 You’ve gotta be patient with bolognese. This recipe takes about four hours to complete!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is an exciting development for my alma mater! “The upgrades are designed to better connect the [University of Arkansas] campus to the Razorback Greenway and reduce serious injuries along the corridor.” Funding is mostly coming from President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law 🥳

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@kingcountymetro.bsky.social buses are so much nicer and brighter when the advertising vinyl wrap has been ripped off the windows 😌☀️

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A great day at Washington Park Arboretum 🌺🌤️

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Let’s build more stacked flats like the stunning “Laurabell”! I’d love to have my own sunroom. ☀️ (This beautiful building is located at 1112 Broadway E. in Capitol Hill, Seattle)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Snapshots from today + went to the gym. A nice day off! 🙂

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

And in the middle of air quality awareness week...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve made an effort to try some new-to-me Seattle restaurants over the last week! • Tilikum Place Café, Belltown • La Parisienne Bakery, Belltown • El Grito Taqueria, Cascade/South Lake Union • Virginia Inn, Pike Place Market

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Unpopular opinion: I’m watching the A’s vs. Mariners game (Go Seattle!) and have determined that the Athletics should stay where the are. Primarily because #Sacramento is 1,000x cooler than Las Vegas will ever be. Also, their little stadium is packed on a random Tuesday night. Amazing!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Roaming around Capitol Hill on this gorgeous sunny Sunday #Seattle

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I prefer Seattle's method of flirting of: "HI I'm awkward and you're awkward let's be awkward together"

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

Thoughts and prayers for recently pedestrianized Pike Place Market, clearly struggling on this dreary Spring day. (Sarcasm)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s run to/from Gas Works Park was quite lovely 🏃🏻‍♂️

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Just an update to show y'all where the urban growth boundary, which Cathy Moore said prevents sprawl outside Seattle, actually is. It goes all the way out to North Bend and includes all of the sprawl areas outside Seattle.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

The Liberals are gonna win tonight’s election by double digits, aren’t they

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Suburban hell, Portland edition (McMenamins is an oasis in this greenwashed business park) 📍Tigard, Oregon

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I’m trying to picture something like this in Edmonds, Tukwila, Woodinville, etc. A guy can dream, I guess

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments