New data: Good news! Spring sales at Pike Place Market were also up in 2026 compared to 2025, about ~5%!
Gordon PadelfordPike Place Market just released new sales data for Feb 2026. Looks like Jan+Feb 2026 had 11% higher sales than Jan+Feb 2025 (before the pedestrian pilot)! Congrats Seattle, you managed to find a way to shop at the market in the dead of winter without driving your cars through the middle of it.
Bike lanes are "DEI" and congestion pricing is "Jihad." MAGA is just cranking up car advocacy to crazy new levels huh?
Philip BumpI'm sorry, but calling advocates of congestion pricing "jihadists" is sincerely hilarious.
This is a loss, but Magic Mouse Toys fought the removal of three illegal parking spaces that would have improved intersection visibility and pedestrian safety. SDOT relented on all three. Looks like illegal car parking was not underpinning their financial success. www.theurbanist.org/sdot-retreat...
SDOT Retreats on Pioneer Square Bike and Scooter Corral PlanA plan to add 21 on-street bike and scooter corrals in a joint effort to keep sidewalks clear and maintain visibility at intersections has been reduced to just 3 corrals. Neighborhood business advocat...www.theurbanist.orgThe Seattle TimesMagic Mouse Toys, a longtime fixture of local retail in Pioneer Square, shuttered its doors permanently last week, according to a note on the store's door.
Terrible. My thoughts are with this man’s family, friends, and community. Everyone deserves to be able to get home safely
Ryan PackerA 37 year old man was killed last night after being hit by a driver in Loyal Heights while riding a scooter. The 16 year old driver was released from the scene. spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/08/11/d...
This kind of smart, walkable, Mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
Will QuinnDaily bunny no.3407 is in love with the dark
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Not that car advocates actually care, but for those of us who do, there is very robust evidence that bike infrastructure does NOT cause gentrification usa.streetsblog.org/2021/06/21/s...
STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren't Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People — Streetsblog USAThe installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists is not associated with the displacement of people of color or of low-income urban residents, a new study reveals.usa.streetsblog.orgTheo GordonMove over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
Back in 1889 when Seattle’s population was just 50,000, the city envisioned growing 5X to 250,000, and set out to build a publicly owned water system that would make it possible. (Seattle reached 250k about 20 years later www.historylink.org/file/10945). We should dream big about our future again.
Gordon PadelfordI do not regret to inform you that we are building a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving city.
We can build safer streets, if we want to
Erik OstromIt irks me endlessly that we use “public safety” to mean policing and not traffic calming
Save gas money with this one neat trick. Gas stations hate it!
Patrick De Haancurrent GasBuddy scorecard- Americans today spent $356 million more on gasoline than they did one year ago.
Kettle has routinely outperformed expectations in pro-housing votes, and Hollingsworth has often disappointed
Mr. FunI didn't see Kettle coming in as a yes
We can make our streets safer and greener if we want to.
RachelLa piste cyclable sur Clark est l'une de mes préférées. P.S.: Et pour ceux qui diront qu'elle est vide et qu'elle ne sert à rien, c'est que vous ne comprenez pas le fonctionnement ni l'usage d'une piste cyclable qui a été pensée intelligemment et qui est bien ancrée dans un quartier. Peace.✌🏻🚲