People will see photos like this and still say we need to destroy national parks and nature reserves to build more housing. We need to stop building our cities around cars and start building them around humans. It’s bad for our economy, the environment and our communities.

Monica Kim⁷ 💜 Good news is on the way: we have 4 protected bike lane projects happening this year in the South end:
MLK is under construction
We just opened construction bids for Beacon Hill
And we will begin the bid/award process shortly for South Park > Georgetown > Downtown

Took a walk over to Highgate. Lots of fairy tale stuff there.

Quick, give me ten locations in the US that fit this definition. (*Public* is the big qualifier here, otherwise it’s all lifestyle centers)

“No one is suggesting we eliminate deliveries or emergency services or ADA access [to Pike Place],' Gordon Padelford said. 'Markets around the world have figured out how to allow that sort of essential access to continue.'
Agree? Add your name in support:
seattlegreenways.org/pikeplace

The pedestrian plaza surrounded by shops & cafes: a basic, atomic unit of pretty much every European city; available virtually *nowhere* in the US.

POV you live in a city.

Seattle should be building streets like these, including the land use. Urban streets don’t have to be 60+ feet wide, choked with cars, and bereft of fauna. We need peak performance streets.

“I won’t lead with bikes” KEPT

The Village Panda is getting a fresh sign today. I’m weirdly fascinated by the hand-painted signs. It’s a lost art that you never see in America.

I have a plain red baseball cap that I liked (in permanent storage now due to that fucker Tangerine Mussolini) but plenty of normal non-fascist people in London wear red caps so maybe I can pull it out of storage.

Typical Thursday in London. Not sure how the pubs are able to pump this much ale.

Street idea: 1) add bollards, 2) issue street cafe permits, 3) ugh I must have spilled something on the rest of the recipe. Anyway, you’ll figure it out.

The Holborn tube station—woven right into the fabric of the city—is pretty close to the Platonic ideal.

Does anything like this exist in the Seattle area? For her birthday my wife wants to invite our friends out for some food/drink somewhere we can watch the kiddos crawl and run around outside (bonus points if there is live music).

The authors of Seattle’s Downtown Activation Plan could learn from cities like London where dense mixed-use transit-oriented development is the norm.

The top of a double-decker is the best theme park ride in London.

Gotta give a special shout out to Seattle though, which tore down its terrible waterfront highway only to replace it with ... another waterfront highway. Dumbest f'ing thing I've seen this city do since the last dumb thing it did.