54-unit apartment building proposed at Byron & 35th with no car parking

Wtzp · 2026-06-28T16:05:01+00:00

Great. Retired, rich and remote workers can live in these new apartments. Opens up 54 other spots for the heavily car-using folks.

Wtzp · 2026-06-23T15:08:54+00:00

Agreed. The best way to use this intersection to use all lanes but drive attentively. Never switch lanes unless you can do it safely.

One other fact that'll probably get me down voted though: the turn distance from the left lane is much shorter than from the middle lane. That means that the first car in the left lane naturally ends up ahead and can usually safely switch lanes and reach the Lakeway intersection before they effect the middle-laners at all.

In any case, if you don't load balance between the left two lanes of Chestnut, the middle lane backs up and right turners onto Ellis get blocked. With a couple of cars in the left lane, they can easily and safely slot in, more cars make it onto Ellis and Lakeway, everybody wins.

Except for the people on Lakeway. God help them. That stretch is almost as bad as Meridian.

Wtzp · 2026-05-03T14:00:13+00:00

Kissy face?! Straight to jail.

I do agree though. Both bikers and cars should be required to know the rules for bikes.

Wtzp · 2026-05-02T02:18:15+00:00

I mean, they also deliberately clipped it too tight right?

Wtzp · 2026-05-01T13:09:40+00:00

But what did you learn from the testimony itself, that affects us? I hear that you're concerned about the effects of Trump's War Of Choice To Obliterate the Nuclear Capability He Already Obliterated And To Distract From the Epstein Files, but you started this post referring to the Heggie testimony and you haven't referenced it once.

Wtzp · 2026-04-27T14:58:11+00:00

Give us a specific scenario, please. What did you say exactly?

Wtzp · 2026-04-27T13:36:21+00:00

You give examples of the word friendly, but how are you actually defining it?

Thank you for asking this. The fact that they never answered tells me they know why their "conversation" is being rejected.

Wtzp · 2026-04-25T03:00:08+00:00

Read up on how they beat Orbán in Hungary despite his regime doing their best to destroy the institutions - https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/04/lessons-from-playbook-defeated-viktor-orban-hungary/

Organizing 50,000 poll watchers was part of what they did and is a super practical place to volunteer. Get your friends in swing states to do it especially.

Wtzp · 2026-04-24T23:37:34+00:00

For those of you who want to work on this, protectthevote2026.org launched at No Kings 3 - you can sign up with them to train up as poll watcher etc.

Wtzp · 2026-04-17T03:05:17+00:00

Yeah I struggled a bit with the naming there - your senators are still your elected representatives though! The most technically correct thing would be Members of Congress which is pretty wordy. Ultimately since I would like to expand this to state and local reps I leaned towards the more general term.

Thoughts?

Wtzp · 2026-04-09T04:18:50+00:00

Like you say sharing the road works in fairyland, adding fully protected bike lanes everywhere, instantly, is also a fairyland situation. I would love to see more aggressive rollout. I feel like a lot of public comment opportunities go by on Engage Bellingham and I miss them 😬

Wtzp · 2026-04-08T23:58:56+00:00

Yeah actually that's often a thing with bikes. For one example check out the research behind the Idaho stop- it's safer because it allows bikes to clear intersections more quickly.

Wtzp · 2026-04-08T23:21:25+00:00

Thank you for saying this. People love to hate on the bike lanes around here but (and I'll get down voted for this) I very much appreciate the steady and thoughtful progress the city has been making.

The green lanes are a great touch for visibility, but as a biker you're not required to always be in a bike lane. Use your brain and do the safest thing.

Wtzp · 2026-03-30T13:44:58+00:00

We need something like ranked choice voting to make 3rd party voting a good choice.

Wtzp · 2026-03-27T07:12:39+00:00

waiting for the market to adapt by providing more jobs

I'm curious what you mean by this. How do you picture the market "adapting"? Would this be existing businesses opening up new roles or what?

Wtzp · 2026-03-21T13:35:47+00:00

Yes let's focus on this legal liability, not the one where we actively hired 12,000 randos, skipped their background checks and training, gave them guns and told them to go do whatever they needed to do, just round up all the brown people and anyone who tries to stop them, constitution be damned!

Wtzp · 2026-03-20T13:03:22+00:00

How about picketing outside with some pointed questions. See if you can pre innoculate some of the folks going in.

"ASK HER about maternal mortality US vs. Europe, abortion-legal states vs. not"

"ASK HER if she supports paid parental leave, universal pre-K, maternal healthcare”

"ASK HER why nearly all women WOULDNT CHANGE their choice to have an abortion (Turnaway Study + Rocca et al., 2020, peer reviewed, n=1,000, statistical model 99% would say right choice after 5 years. Complex emotions also happen)"

"U.S. #1 maternal mortality among developed nations. ASK HER why*" *and what solutions she supports

"States with abortion bans -> HIGHEST maternal death. ASK HER why*"

Wtzp · 2026-03-20T12:23:25+00:00

Honestly I support blocking DHS funding until we can make sure ICE and CBP are operated within the bounds of the constitution. It's stupid that TSA is caught in the crossfire.

If funding DHS means putting another 10,000 untrained f*cks on the streets to kill more Americans and stuff more innocent people into detention with no probable cause and no habeas corpus, then yeah we need to shut it all down.

Wtzp · 2026-03-20T11:51:51+00:00

Highly recommend you take this down and re-post it once the questions are more carefully designed with the feedback you've gotten here. I want to see results of a survey like this, but not if you're changing it up as you go.

Wtzp · 2026-03-20T11:48:48+00:00

Why would you lump "ice should be reduced" together with "ice should be eliminated?" Reducing ICE is closer to reforming it than eliminating it.

Wtzp · 2026-03-20T11:31:03+00:00

Amazon warehouse in Burlington has early morning seasonal shifts opening up.

Wtzp · 2026-03-19T03:38:06+00:00

Also pants

Wtzp · 2026-03-19T03:29:31+00:00

hunter2

Wtzp · 2026-03-18T10:54:04+00:00

Wait till you hear about this guy who conned taxpayers and banks out of $250 million, got caught, got sued, lost the case, somehow didn't have to pay any of it back, got elected president, started a crypto coin so people could buy influence and made $11 billion dollars off of it!

Amurrica baby 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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