Balk: Car ownership keeps dropping in Seattle

#SEAbikes #Seattle

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/03/14/balk-car-ownership-keeps-dropping-in-seattle/

A little weather today in Seattle.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Visiting the cherry blossoms at the University of Washington is always a magical experience.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/visiting-the-cherry-blossoms-at-the-university-of-washington-6-ez-lorenz.html

A crude diagram of the plate situation in the Cascadia Subduction Zone near #Seattle based on #earthquake data from 2000-2025. #geology

RELEASE: Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP Bike Maps version 1.5.1 - 8 March 2025

Additions and changes this release:

* WATERFRONT TRAIL now open in Downtown Seattle. This is a small section opening, but it is an important connection

* HONEY DEW CREEK TRAIL in Newcastle/Renton. Turns out it's a popular paved shortcut

* Better road name markings a few places

* Warnings on 15th Avenue S bike lanes which are now _closed_ now 'til spring

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

Previous permalinks continue to work.

If you like these maps, maybe hit my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/solarbird

Thanks!

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Safeway faces city violation for keeping 2nd entry closed in effort to curb shoplifting

I'd side with Seattle on this. The local Safeway has one of its two doors closed permanently too, and that makes it unsafe for the shoppers on foot as we have to walk across the edge of the parking lot to get to the open door on the far end from the sidewalk. Sometime last year, a driver smashed their car into one of the columns between the two entrances. It could easily have been me had I been there.

#Seattle #Safeway

HEY WASHINGTON STATE FOLLOW WAHEALTH HERE SO THEY HAVE REASON TO STAY

From: @mapache
https://hachyderm.io/@mapache/114122531448686470

Not my video, but found this killer recording of DEGRAVED live in Seattle last month.

https://youtu.be/sQ_Dh51zJGw?si=b3PN9LKOMWRPDXie&t=87

New article: Monday earthquake shakes Vancouver, Seattle - are earthquakes striking more than usual?

A review of this morning's #earthquake as well as a look at data to see how the last few months compare to long-term data.

https://ingallswx.com/2025/03/03/monday-earthquake-shakes-vancouver-seattle-are-earthquakes-striking-more-than-usual/

M4.6 #earthquake centered in the San Juan Islands. Felt it here in Surrey, BC. Reportedly felt throughout Lower Mainland and Victoria. Possibly also felt in the Seattle metro.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00ssjtkc/executive

Felt report: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00ssjtkc/tellus

#Listening to one of Soundgarden's most iconic songs, Superunknown, from the 1994 album of the same name.

"If you don't want to be seen
Well, you don't have to hide
And if you don't want to believe
Well, you don't have to try
To feel alive

Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your ..."