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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social

Diverters seem to be pretty effective too. It's amazing to go up to a "naturally occurring low traffic neighborhood" and see basketball hoops in the street.

jun 30, 2025, 12:25 am • 12 0

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social

I’m tend to think these are most effective because most of these aggro drivers are just driving *through* the greenways for one reason or another.

jun 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social

Heres two residential intersections ~500 feet from the nearest arterial. The difference is that one of them sees probably 100 cars per day and the other sees ~2000 because it's a cut through.

Street corner in columbia city, no sign of street life. street corner in mount baker, two basketball hoops show that kids play i the street.
jun 30, 2025, 12:31 am • 4 1 • view
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Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social

We need like actual numbers to hold SDOT to. I can’t recall tho, have they built many diverters recently? bsky.app/profile/nick...

jun 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 2 0 • view
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social

I'm not sure it's really that we need numbers to hold them to, it's that there's pretty much no residential street changes installed except through the home zone process, which is funded for 400k for one mile square per year.

jun 30, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
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Andy Randles @andyrandles.bsky.social

The diverters in North Cap Hill are amazing. I really with SDOT had never stopped that pilot.

jun 30, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social

Did you ever write that article about the history of those? @typewriteralley.bsky.social

jun 30, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social

Just an old Twitter post.

Old tweet reading: In 1971, Seattle piloted one of the first area-wide traffic calming programs in the nation in Capitol Hill using just 50-gallon drums to create temporary traffic diverters. Two years later, they were made permanent and are still in use today.
jun 30, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view