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Riley Avron

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Urbanist in West Seattle. Let's make housing more affordable and available, and getting around without a car safe and easy for everyone.

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I’m running to represent N & NE Seattle in the state legislature, to stop saying no and and start building our affordable future. Join us, and let’s get to work! #taxtherich #rentfreeze #childcare. Vo... TikTok video by voterondavis

Friends, I'm running to represent North and Northeast Seattle in the State House!

We can build an affordable future together.

Launch vid below! (Please bookmark, share, & comment)

www.tiktok.com/@voterondavi...

Let's get to work!

05.03.2026 20:54 👍 112 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 11
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Tell Sound Transit to Keep West Seattle Light Rail on Track! West Seattle needs and has voted for light rail, but Sound Transit has recently suggested delays or reductions in scope. Send a letter to leaders in King County, Seattle, and Sound Transit to remi...

We put together a letter campaign to remind Sound Transit and elected officials how important it is to keep light rail to West Seattle on track.

If you live in, work in, or visit West Seattle, please send an email 💪✨ we made it quick and easy!

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

04.03.2026 20:34 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Tell Sound Transit to Keep West Seattle Light Rail on Track! West Seattle needs and has voted for light rail, but Sound Transit has recently suggested delays or reductions in scope. Send a letter to leaders in King County, Seattle, and Sound Transit to remi...

@westseaurbanism.bsky.social put together a letter campaign to remind Sound Transit and elected officials how important it is to keep light rail to West Seattle on track.

If you live in, work in, or visit West Seattle, please send an email! It's quick.

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

04.03.2026 17:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, good tip, I had no idea. Thanks Jeremy!

28.02.2026 22:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As usual, Rep Reed gets the goods!

28.02.2026 21:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What is this all about?? Let me try to explain. It's important, because it's actually about @seasocialhousing.bsky.social and it's about Alzheimer's and heart disease and asthma, and rich homeowners keeping you sick and housing rare and unaffordable. And what you can do about it THIS MONTH.

27.02.2026 03:39 👍 53 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 5

Out of curiosity, how did you make your way from the waterfront to Seattle Center? With all the changes I feel like I don't know the best way anymore.

24.02.2026 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hilariously, this timetable means that it will be faster for me to get from Alaska Junction to SEA at 3 AM than at 11 AM.

(50 to SODO runs 24h, and the 570 between SODO and SEA is 5 minutes faster than Link)

Blame the at-grade section I suppose.

24.02.2026 20:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Vehicle speed survey filled out by hand. It shows most vehicles exceeding the 25 MPH speed limit, with some reaching 42 MPH.

Vehicle speed survey filled out by hand. It shows most vehicles exceeding the 25 MPH speed limit, with some reaching 42 MPH.

Here's a speed survey I did there over half an hour in 2024.

22.02.2026 20:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oregon & 39th or Oregon & 40th. Lots of speeders along Oregon between Fauntleroy & California.

22.02.2026 20:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It's not a done deal. Write them! bsky.app/profile/ravr...

21.02.2026 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please write to them this weekend! It takes just a minute. Here's what I wrote:

21.02.2026 14:51 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
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hey washington housing folks

tomorrow at 10.30 am, the WA house housing committee will hold a hearing on SB 5156, allowing smaller and more affordable elevators in single stair buildings. more accessible hom

this saves $10Ks *per* elevator

please sign in pro here

app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

17.02.2026 23:24 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 4

I'm proud to support Erica's work with a recurring donation. I encourage you to do so too!

13.02.2026 06:57 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

That's my representative!! Thank you Rep Thomas.

03.02.2026 02:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

31.01.2026 23:28 👍 634 🔁 170 💬 1 📌 9

Mayor Wilson, this plan actually goes backwards compared to October 2024, downzoning predominantly wealthier, more exclusive neighborhoods, like mine in West Seattle.

Instead, we need to allow dramatically more homes in these areas, including West Seattle.

bsky.app/profile/anal...

30.01.2026 23:41 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Here's what I wrote. You can do so too!

28.01.2026 16:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please take a minute to email your opposition to SB 5609!

28.01.2026 15:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Join @westseaurbanism.bsky.social and meet your neighbors!
linktr.ee/westseattleu...

23.01.2026 15:41 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

If it helps, I have found @transit.app does a better job than Google or Apple offering safer routing. This may be because it is based on OSM data.

14.01.2026 21:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The dispatcher always says they'll send enforcement, but I'm often reporting while I'm on my way somewhere else. So, I haven't confirmed that an after-hours ticket was issued yet.

14.01.2026 16:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have had some luck calling things like this in. (206) 625-5011, wait about 45 seconds, option 8 then option 1. I have seen vehicles ticketed after I've called.

14.01.2026 07:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You can sign in PRO very quickly here:
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

14.01.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In other words, sec. 3 means that recipients of misleading electronic messages can no longer benefit under RCW 19.86, the consumer protection act. (also bad for recipients)

12.01.2026 05:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…receiving, reviewing, and detrimentally relying upon the message. (bad for recipients)
Sec. 3 of the bill says that RCW 19.190.100 (which says "violations in this chapter are unfair or deceptive practices") no longer applies to RCW 19.190.020, the section about misleading electronic messages. …

12.01.2026 05:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Definitely not a lawyer but I actually think this *weakens* existing protections on net.
Sec. 1 of the bill lowers the standard for a subject line to be considered misleading (good for recipients)
However, Sec. 2 *raises* the standard for damages, from simply receiving the misleading message, to…

12.01.2026 05:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
SB 5156 Washington State Legislature

SB 5156 app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

12.01.2026 05:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Urbanist's view is that it is to avoid upsetting CMs, like Saka, who would view being removed as chair as punishment.

07.01.2026 17:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course. Operated like a stethoscope, with small speakers built in to the armrest.

30.12.2025 21:22 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0