He/him. Seattle. People should be able to walk and roll without dying.
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We also increasingly have connected bike routes, are starting to reallocate car space to other uses, and are building public transit that actually works for most trips.
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A fight is brewing at the King County Council tomorrow over whether a new 0.1% sales tax measure will arbitrarily limit the amount of funding that gets sent to Seattle, diverting it elsewhere. This week city leaders started pushing back.
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A 0.1% countywide sales tax hike is on deck for later this week, largely to fund road improvements outside cities and towns. Seattle city leaders are arguing that a proposed cap diverting several mill...
I'm sympathetic to what Will is going through, if Rainer Ave in Columbia City emptied out I'd be really mad too, but if I blamed it on the Rainier Ave bus lane you'd be right to tell me I'm wrong.
There's a real catch 22 with road redesign because the best time to do them is as part of these mega projects, but then doing them as part of these mega projects let's people misrepresent the project and claim it costs a trillion dollars and takes 4 years to paint a red bus lane
This type of misrepresentation of facts is normally the type of thing Will Stancil would be on our side about, but for some reason he's taking the stop showing me charts nerd side of this discussion
We also have a comprehensive plan in the works that might actually make it possible to build enough housing to keep up with demand.
Road rebuilds triggered by having to replace all the pipes under the road are not actually the "urbanist project" it's just deferred maintenance and yeah, multi year projects suck. It'll always suck. It has nothing to do with bus and bike lanes though.
Maybe we should make our bike lanes wide enough to pass so that drivers don't harass commuters passing traffic by using the general lane
If Will took this approach to the vibecession he would be arguing that the problem isn't burrito taxis, the problem is that when you treat food delivery as irrelevant you risk overlooking things that will politically undercut reasonable economic policy.
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Not partly, 100% of the reconstruction was infrastructure replacement. The repaving would have taken the same amount of time with or without the sidewalk and transit improvements. This fundamentally is not about urbanism.
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Seattle has public power, is building green social housing, and just enacted a ban on data centers and people will still insist you can't create utopia in our lifetimes but idk seems like they're gonna give it a shot
