Mike

Transportation advocate and Professional Engineer in the Pacific Northwest working tirelessly to make your walking, biking, and transit commute better.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

Universal accessibility is not an amenity, it's a fundamental right for all people and all abilities. We can afford these improvements, we just don't want to raise taxes enough to pay for them.

[Disability Mobility Initiative @non_drivers]

We shouldn't have to sacrifice access to sidewalks and transit because areas with these "amenities" are unaffordable.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@MikeLindblom @typewriteralley @JulieETimm @MyCommTrans I hope this isn't the real answer for 1 Line in 2024, Mike. It's not reassuring to move so few people at such a high cost.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

Future crowding of 1 Line, is there an option for Northgate-Stadium trains in addition to full 1 Line service? Surely not every train needs to go to Angle Lake and Lynnwood, w/ pocket tracks allowing for turns. @typewriteralley @MikeLindblom @JulieETimm
https://t.co/wtfqMarjPl

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@MikeLindblom @typewriteralley @JulieETimm So...dozens bendy buses will be brought in as Route 97 to run on the surface as a supplement/shadow to 1 Line? The very same bendy buses we already don't have enough drivers and mechanics for that operate on congested-AF-roads? Or...bring back Route 41?

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@MikeLindblom It's like that frequently with all lanes open...

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@jw_pincus @typewriteralley The taper is to open the bike lane as much as possible while narrowing GP lanes, and bike box to allow people biking to have to transition to the left-side bike lane. Project limit was Post Alley because of federal funding requirements, so no work allowed beyond that point.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@typewriteralley Terrible. Such a bummer to spend hundreds of thousands removing the old gray concrete and installing red concrete for no real good reason aside from low-viz aesthetics. Is the center of the intersection going to be repaved? Many are in rough shape.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

BRB, going to New York City for a week 😎

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@typewriteralley @musingsofmonica Per design, plastic traffic posts and plastic curb. Here's the design from project site.
https://t.co/GBBWR4dwHI

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@DustinDK Close, but no cigar.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@pushtheneedle Instead of below-mentioned speculation to stop housing, IMO this is was a park which looked great in architectural renderings to architects and politicians, like that gravel part of SLU Park, but is a rather terrible place for people to be because it's just gravel and ret walls.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@ScottCities1st @NACTO TIL about this Paris vote. FFS 🤦‍♂️

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

Supreme 🤌

[Bike Lane Uprising® @bikelaneuprise]

Meet Chuck and his 4 wheel “pedal car”. He was eating nearby and caught me looking at it - his first reaction was to offer to let me ride it 💚

When gas prices went up Chuck decided to modify it and turn it an e-bike. He said he ordered all the parts and did the convert himself

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@Chris_Ince Don't mess with @MtStHelensWA. May look like half-a-mountain, but still full eff you up 😬

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@NACTO As a cool example, there's a @seattledot corridor project using online outreach open for weeks with signs and QR codes all over the place to gain input from everyone. In addition, *I think* they're going to be setting up booths at three community events. https://t.co/an11BUJwlq

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@NACTO +1. Requiring people to be physically present during a two hour window in an environment that frequently devolves into mob rule just to provide any comments for a project is outdated and is accessible by only a narrow, privileged audience.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@dseater @asher_971 David, to totally blow your marbles: the old cable car yoke is being removed as well!

Talked with the contractor a couple weeks ago, and the yoke is putting up a real fight as they're yanking it straight out of the ground with a demolition excavator.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@AlaskaAir Alaska Air, committed to taking everyone from cold places to even colder places 😎

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@asher_971 Madison is a great example: it was built as two streetcar/cablecar lanes, two horse lanes, and sidewalks. Not exactly built for cars. But the pavement from the 1800's is still in there and being removed as we speak for new concrete for RR G Line. Madison is far from the only ex.

[Mike @SD70MACMAN]

@typewriteralley Agreed. It's exactly why we have planned out measures like Move Seattle and ST.

On that, given his poll, I'd love to see CM Pedersen act strongly and boldly on bus priority as we've been voting for years for more and better buses.