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Oh, no. So sad. I'm devastated. No, really. So, so sad.

Anyway, onto more important things, I heard some birds chirping in the morning rain today.

What's an example of that happening?
The current developments in the area are 2 of the mall's residential buildings, and those are indeed residential.

I'll be interested to see what happens to the office proposals between the station and the iceplex.

Shared Micromobility is such a critical, essential part of our transit network.

I'm so happy to see @seattledot.bsky.social recognizing this by accommodating and advocating for parking/usability improvements.

And I'm excited to push things further. This is transit. City-own, partnerships, Orca...

This plan represents the continued lack of vision from OPCD -- there is such great potential in Northgate for so many of these goals, as residents stated.

Yet the changes to zones, streets, trees.. are so painfully marginal -- not visionary.

It's depressing to see this; we have so much potential.

Thank you, I will leave comments in the form.

In my view, this plan represents the continued lack of vision from OPCD -- there is such great potential in Northgate for so many of these goals, as residents stated. Yet the changes to zones, streets, trees.. are so painfully marginal -- not visionary.

"I have Internet handles older than you!!"
Congrats on qualifying to be one of those people :p

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Looking forward to getting to Ballard in 2050.

Devastating.

Thanks for tracking, Ryan :)

Interesting, yeah. I was hoping it generally flies under the radar since it's such a big package, but I suppose it being "snuck in" makes it higher visibility and easier to veto.

I wonder if it's worth any emails to his office about - or just avoid calling attention, 🤷 and see what happens

Yes. These will have time limits (10 minutes max per user), and will have a couple of dedicated crews that both clean them (approx. every 12 uses). - From DJC

These 2 in psq aren't the only ones, I don't think

Any thoughts on over/under about changes at this point that undo the ST bond amendment?
Feels more likely that the bill's state is complete at this point and just needs to pass, but I don't know.

Yeah, I saw djc covering this a couple days ago.
It seems like a fantastic partnership... I'm not sure how their goal of cleaning it every 12 uses will go when the line's out the door in peak season, but I'm VERY excited and happy to have these start to pop up around downtown!

Still very funny (not) to me that this is the only data they're collecting on pedestrianization and it's not even explicitly about that

Thank you!

Thank you for what you do as always 😊 We'd all be much less informed without you

What is this representative of for us?

Nearly doubling the cost but not being able to maintain the hours from that previous levy in 2019 -- surely inflation, maintenance costs, book costs.... all of the costs... haven't increased by *more than 2x* in these 7-14 years?

Yeah, updates on bedrock are typically every 4-6 weeks, while hotfixes are unscheduled.

Often you'll see the most critical issues taken out of the next monthly update and moved into a hotfix, if it's impacting players enough.

Otherwise, not a long wait till 26.20!

Cool!!! LOVE the dark mode!!
I think font weight could do with some more tweaks, I think the main paragraph/body weight is slightly too thick and the overall hierarchy isn't there as much -- but I'm a fan!! Very happy to see this!!

Mamdani and Wilson, two months in: The divisions between proactivity and pragmatism Mamdani and Wilson, two months in: The divisions between proactivity and pragmatism

Just saw this topical Daily articles
www.dailyuw.com/article/mamd...

...huh.

Love that shirt, need it framed with Ride The SLUT from Seattle (which needs to be official!)

I don't envy her position -- everybody wants to feel represented, so she filled the board with representation.
Then all of those new folks around her tell her "no", constantly -- of course it hurts her confidence and makes her water things down.
I just think it's not the right way to go about.

Sure, fair, but the delay is actually my concern.

Some things are new to her, I get it. But for those that she already had a policy, I expected to see those by now.

This delay is, I imagine, just incorporating the feedback from her centrist peers and watering it down - or eliminating things.

Wes this is betrayal /j you agree with me in other places lol

In any case,
1. An interim director doesn't stop direction
2. She's a policy nerd. She absolutely had policies in mind when campaigning -- I haven't seen those.

Wilson just needs confidence - she knows what to do, so do it.

Yeah, and it's unfair of me to compare our city to one 8+x larger, but still I do. NYC has shown that despite beaurocracy, action is possible.
Here, city hall is filled with people of conflicting interests (deliberately, for "hearing their perspectives"), and it's slowing+centrist-ing things.

I think we'll either get the cultural connector as a new project, or SLUT decommissioned; in either case timed loosely with ST3 construction.

The streetcar doesn't seem to be a priority for Wilson.

But also, not much does, right now, considering it feels like she's moving at a snails pace...

I don't really see a problem with additional event service, if this was a full time route (and a legitimate suggestion) I may think differently

I mean, accurate. Parade us through lines when it's too busy, deprioritize contactless and orca use, no real time tracking (or any schedule adherence), stop allowing transfers so it's more disconnected...

I absolutely love our monorail and often use it at least weekly. But I do wish it was better.