Eric Aderhold

Seems way wiser to buy equipment for the streets you want than to design streets for the equipment you have.

Seems like narrower fire trucks might be a good idea too.

Convince her that POGs are the best thing ever.

You have to be trying pretty hard to trigger parking requirements for Seattle homes anymore. Among other exceptions, no parking is required if you plant trees that will mature to shade 10% of the lot. That's nothing. Makes me wonder what was holding them back from just repealing the requirement.

Are you literally a unicyclist or is this an interesting German idiom?

same function as the veil worn while eating ortalan

It's technically from Aurora just north of the tunnel entrance to the viaduct, and was removed when they built the big tunnel and redid the street there. I did always think that sign gantry was super distinctive.

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Imagine thinking that large corporate landlords are bad but only if the homes they're renting out have an air gap between them.

It says it's about how many college grads from elsewhere move to WA compared to how many college grads from WA move elsewhere.

If you're really trying to maximize that stat you'll close all the WA colleges so the percentage trends toward infinity. :-)

What are all those modern cars doing there? Shouldn't the historic preservation board do something about that?

I have my doubts that resurrecting the 46 would yield markedly different results today, but hey...if and when Metro gets the funding to bring back the service through my neighborhood that they cut a couple of years ago, I'd be happy to see them try this too.

We used to have a bus there but Metro cancelled it because almost nobody rode it. web.archive.org/web/20101126...

Due to the cliff (i.e. the same reason the walk from the 45 is such a climb) the only destination for the bus was the park and marina. That doesn't bring in many people unfortunately.

Canadian women had the Scotties (their national championship) just prior to the Olympics and their Team Homan also decided not to compete. Interestingly the men's Team Canada will be competing in the Briar (starts tomorrow).

The timing of the world championships (starting in two weeks for women, a couple weeks after that for men) necessitates this timeline for nationals. Neither US Olympic team is competing this year.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Today I was driving north on 12th Ave in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. It's a one-way street. The car to the right of me completely ignored the red light at 67th St. Not 30 seconds later I had to move over to make room for a car going the wrong way.

BuT WHy doN't CyCListS folLOw traFfiC laWS?!?

Our usual Costco still sells only pods. Regular supermarket has larger selection so there's a powder or two, but I think the Costco pods are cheaper per load.

My scooter is set to top out at 20. I rarely get passed by pedal bikes, but yeah there are a lot of people going over 15.

Imagine passing a "safety" law saying bikes have been going too fast all along, while cars with 100x the mass are traveling at unlimited speed. Truly amazing thought process.

Until I hear about any ICE agent being ticketed for any sort of vehicle-related violation I will assume it is in fact being tolerated.

Bid limits—prohibiting local governments from performing their own work over a certain dollar value—are a form of privatization that increases the cost of government.

You mean abolish, right?

It works so much better that way!

I hesitated due to the length, but it's worth a watch. The first hour was a very solid summary of renewable energy. The last half hour was a necessary reaction to the times we live in. I'm glad he used his platform in this way. I hope someday he can focus on how to best explain how VCRs work again.

They're spinning it as this cataclysmic thing, but in the rezone area they'll now allow a 5 story 12,500 square foot apartment building. That's just not a big difference! Same building footprint, one story higher. Plus the rezone will come with a $19.51/sq ft MHA tax that isn't owed in NR zones.

What are these folks even fighting against anymore? On a 5,000 square foot NR lot you can build a 4 story 10,000 square foot apartment building. The bulk of the area changed on the proposed Tangletown neighborhood center and Wallingford corridor map is a change from NR to LR3 (M).

Even under the current system they paid about $1,200 per parking spot in property tax last year. A revenue-neutral switch from property tax to LVT would roughly double the tax on vacant parcels in King County. Would likely result in redevelopment of some but not all parking lots.

And backing up a step...folks with a pending application for permanent residence shouldn't be whisked away to Texas in the first place. Zero excuse for even detaining them at all.

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

Google Street View photo of three old homes in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood that (at the time of the photo) were occupied by a restaurant, a massage business, and a thrift shop.

Okay, but why? Why do cities want vacant storefronts so badly? It's not like if you put a home on the ground floor there's no possibility of ever putting a shop there if the commercial market demands it. The city has tons of counterexamples.

It's almost as though the film was never intended to be a profitable enterprise on its own, and the whole point was to curry favor with the White House.