I work on clean transportation for Sierra Club. Formerly director of Sierra Club WA. Love my e-bike, walkable cities, and getting my hopes up about the local baseball team. Pro-Housing.
Jesse Piedfort
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Thank you @markey.senate.gov and 15 Senators working on a transportation bill to:
🚗 Protect infrastructure grants from political interference
🚲 Make transportation safer
🚌 Address affordability crisis
✊🏽 Create good, union jobs
🌎 Protect climate & public health
www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Seattle's mayor Katie Wilson looking to expand Frequent Bus Network, the backbone of her city's mobility along with @soundtransit light rail.
(Meanwhile, Portland, Denver, and several other cities are on track for very big service cuts.)
www.theurbanist.org/wilson-propo...
Especially now, clean transportation should be more affordable - not less.
The Times simply cannot conceive of the idea that people across this city honestly and truly want more housing, more transit, and more community — and want it fast. They’re searching for a nefarious reason (builder $!) because the obvious one — urbanism is popular — is abhorrent to them.
Hope they heal quickly and fully. Right now the bike lane on 130th ends at Stone Way before it gets past Aurora (completed last year). SDOT is working on extending this safety project to the west, but construction isn't scheduled until 2028: www.seattle.gov/transportati...
States have access to funding for EV chargers that can free drivers from the gas price rollercoaster. See where your state stands in building out a network that delivers:
🚗 Reliable charging on every highway
👷 Good jobs in every state
💰 Cost savings every week
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
I think a lot about the @jerusalem.bsky.social article from 2024 describing the schism in environmentalism between "crisis greens" and "cautious greens."
That struggle continues, and the consequences of rulings like this will be more sprawl, more pollution, and cities that are less affordable.
Weaponizing environmental concerns to prevent people from living in our urban environments isn’t new. It’s deployed by people with resources to restrict access to high opportunity areas. It’s nimbyism. In order to reach our housing goals, our land use processes must stop enabling this behavior.
The City of Seattle's investment in King County Metro service would jump by 60% over the life of the proposed 10-year renewal of the Seattle Transit Measure. While backed by a sales tax increase, Wils...
(5/5) The State Building Code Council (SBCC) is reviewing an update that would make it more affordable for stacked flats to be built. Send in your story about why you <3 these types of homes to encourage them to be housing heroes!
share here: bit.ly/stackedflats
The vibes across downtown are, as they say, immaculate.
