Seattle is getting really good at inducing demand to use public spaces downtown, we should try deploying the same thing citywide.
Gordon Padelford
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I work for @sngreenways.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.
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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
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At 5am this morning, Seattle Fire responded to a driver who had hit someone walking near 9840 MLK Jr Way S, s of S Norfolk Street. The person who was hit was found dead, on the light rail tracks.
At least one other vehicle was involved in the crash, but not a light rail train.
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Can anyone connect me with folks in Boulder? We're trying to learn more about how they activate their flagship pedestrian street, Pearl St, in the winter. Thanks!
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Voters overwhelmingly said yes to Sound Transit 3 in 2016. The mission is clear: build the damn trains.
Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.
Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.
HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
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Clearly we need some tech wizardry and a dashboard to solve this. We should create a Blockchain Urban Superconductor Lane, or BUS Lane for short. It will use rectangular conveyance devices able to carry 120 people from pre-identified nodes via this innovative pathway, securely, safely, and swiftly.
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"People who haven’t been to the Market since the car cutoff should give it a try. Shoppers no longer have to constantly hop around to avoid cars...Walking on the cobbles feels like a neighborhood experience, not an I-might-get-clipped-by-a-bumper gamble. It just feels friendlier."
Do you agree?
Let's keep rolling with a car-free Pike Place Market | Editorial
The extension of the car ban on Pike Place is welcome news and the move should be made permanent, the editorial board writes.
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Btw the Seattle Times Editorial Board has been on the correct side of this issue for a while (see their below 2021 opinion). Making Pike Place a pedestrian first street is as close to a consensus issue as Seattle politics is ever going to have on anything. Weigh in: seattlegreenways.org/pikeplace
Let pedestrians enjoy Pike Place Market without cars
Seattle should block cars from Pike Place and elevate this downtown treasure as a place to walk, shop and dine outdoors.
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ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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You love to read it: “People who haven’t been to the Market since the car cutoff should give it a try. Shoppers no longer have to constantly hop around to avoid cars…Walking on the cobbles feels like a neighborhood experience, not an I-might-get-clipped-by-a-bumper gamble. It just feels friendlier.”
The Seattle Times editorializes in support of a permanently car-free Pike Place Market. I'll take it!
Let's keep rolling with a car-free Pike Place Market | Editorial
The extension of the car ban on Pike Place is welcome news and the move should be made permanent, the editorial board writes.
