max k

wow this is very interesting! are you able to do it for seattle?

very grateful, on the other hand, for my great-grandmother who moved to seattle and did not stay in port angeles

cursing my great-great-great-grandfather for not staying in canada when he abandoned the british navy in victoria, stole a row boat, and escaped to start a new life in america

this post brought to you by the tiktok UX looking different… am i on global non-Oracle tiktok just cause i’m north of the border?

nothing to make you hate being american more than being in canada

and now some ultra-niche foaming to close out the night! trolley poles and sparks upon contact with the wet trolley wire, viewed through the tiny gaps in the emergency exit hatch of the 6 davie

bainbridge could never

y’know, fuck it, i might as well take seabus too while im at it

got the foamer seat pulling into olympic village station

out-of-service canada line train rushing through broadway-city hall station

broadway millennium line construction makes for some good squiggly bus detours 😮 and i think they’ve temporarily made the detour roads transit only?

busiest bus route in north america, reporting for duty 🫡

got some transit-oriented boba tea (wow it’s been a long time since i got boba tea)

skytrain moment 🥰

imagine this much foot traffic on 3rd ave in downtown seattle

god i love vancouver (watched three trolleybuses off the same route go past the poutine restaurant in the time it took the guy to make my order)

and trains! put the trains back!

wow this is so exciting! wishing you the best from the 43rd as a born-and-raised northeast seattleite!

second time today filling my water bottles from bathroom sinks, cause in this region where it never gets sustained cold enough to freeze pipes, we turn off our public drinking fountains five months of the year cause… normal people don’t go outside? and god forbid a homeless person gets a drink!

i love low budget TV shows that are supposed to be in wisconsin or something but have a translink bus in the background 😭 anyways im headed to vancouver this weekend and im very excited

like you said, drivers are already going to be mad about this, so sdot should just go hard instead of half-assing it. fully converting this dangerous road to 1 traffic lane each way seems like the safest option for everyone. but i guess we’re too late for that!

but yikes i get terrified going down the narrow beacon PBL from 15th to jose rizal filled with tree crap and i doubt this one will be any better, just an even longer and steeper descent that also has buses merging into the bike lane?

ok i guess that’s actually not terrible… but in this SDOT doc it doesn’t really look wide enough for a climbing bike to pass someone walking www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

does this… not have an uphill PBL? i know i’m a very experienced cyclist, but i am honestly more comfortable going down a hill like that when i can take the lane but i DEFINITELY want a protected climbing lane

i hope so! i sent an email to the good folks at montlake

that’s what i’m thinking. i installed these 2 years ago and have put thousands of miles on them, so i’m not terribly surprised, but the timing sucks cause i have a 300-mile tour next weekend that i now have to do on my heavier alloy wheels :( truly a first-world problem, though

nope! i’m glad i decided to inspect the rim when changing tires

discovered a crack in my carbon rim today, so that fucking sucks!

the bright side is that it meant i got to experience my first transit commute with the 2 line running - i heard a 1 line train leaving as i entered roosevelt station and by the time i was on the platform, my 2 line was pulling in!

so perhaps its time to stop spending billions on building new freeways? i can think of 5 megaprojects you could cancel today that would help with the budget deficit and also our state’s goals to reduce carbon emissions

driving the speed limit is the most effective way to induce road rage in other drivers and it is remarkable the level with which people believe it is their god-given right to speed