Portland Ave redesign can’t come soon enough…

So many threads in this conversation are important to the questions being asked in local public health spaces. Highly recommend this podcast with Ezra Klein and Richard V. Reeves.

Bill to end child marriage, HB 1455, is still alive. It’s referred to Law & Justice Committee whose VC is 27th’s very own @SenatorTrudeau. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bi…

#FromTheArchive: “All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’” —Toni Morrison, Nov/Dec 2008 at.pw.org/ToniMorrison

This road fatality is tragic and highlights how racism and road design failed the Native woman killed. Thank you to Zoë Buchli and Nora Mabie for including crash data on the road where this happened. Reporters: more of that, please.

Vision Zero is succeeding in Sweden and failing here because they chose safety as their one priority. You can’t have three priorities. There’s no way for safety to be priority if another priority is the rapid movement of thousands of potential weapons through dense space.

Seattle Officer driving 74 mph without his full siren on, hits and kills a woman in a crosswalk minutes after learning the call he was responding to wasn’t life or death. Very curious to see what King County Prosecutor Charges here.

Louder… for the municipalities in the back who continue to have antiquated thinking (and funding) on sidewalks.

Oversized SUVs and trucks kill people in crashes, catalyze climate change, and widen inequality. And the problem is getting worse. A 🧵 about my deep dive on car bloat, in Slate

Kudos to Peter Talbot for accurately describing this pedestrian who was run down by a driver (and not ‘a car’ as is often written). Pacific Ave remains one of our deadliest corridors.

The corresponding pictures of bumper stickers, t-shirts, flags, etc. are helpful to the points made about how fascism, and Christian nationalism take root. Worth the scroll with podcast recs at the end.

I look forward to seeing how CM Hines approaches the next budget, and how he might increase Public Works’ budget to fix the missing sidewalks. BPTAG has asked for years that IPS invest in a Pedestrian Coordinator to oversee this work.

Vacuumed under my bed, which meant I had to relocate my emotional support library that’s always there. These are the collections that I currently need at my fingertips.

we need an indoor clean air act

Hardening schools because of perceived risk of an outside threat of gun violence introduces its own negative externalities and doesn’t address the most likely source of violence. This podcast highlights several of them and focuses on what would be a better use of time:

Ryan Packer highlighting what Ramiro Chavez is hoping we Tacoma people won’t notice. Here’s what you need to know: Tacoma public works director put forth a budget that defunded Vision Zero. At the same time that TPD Chief asked for $43M more (a 20% ⬆️).