Sign, signs, everywhere a sign. Unemployment leads to fewer traffic jams. Glad we could help you out with that. Over in Perugia, Italy, investigators on the stand today said Amanda Knox turned cartwheels at the police station. And down in the deep blue sea there's a groovy new species of fish that a UW scientist named psychedelia. We'll smoke up to that. more ›

We just ran across the Seattle Times comparison of Gregoire's and Rossi's positions on the environment, largely cribbed from our exhaustive Seattlest coverage of the same topic. Republican Dino Rossi says maybe human activity is to blame for climate change, so operating on the theory than an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, "He...wants to spend $15 billion to expand highways and reduce traffic congestion, which he argues would reduce emissions." Seriously. He also thinks you should fix your leaky water hose by buying a much larger one and leaving it running all the time. more ›

Keeping with our three-day-old, all-bike-news, all-the-time theme, we see the Seattle P-I has a story about bike racks filling up all over Seattle. The city is installing 300 new bike racks per year (toward a goal of doubling availability by 2017), so if you want one, ask for one. The racks outside Liberty and Hopvine on 15th are often three bikes deep these fine summer days, and the racks outside Madison Market should come with a take-a-number dispenser. We put in a request a few months ago but must have been the only ones, because the block in front of Nordstrom downtown is still rack-free. You can actually buy some cycling-style clothing at Nordy's--guess they don't plan on you actually using it. more ›

Usually, when traffic is dawdling on I-5 at 30 m.p.h., we're longing for the arterial: same speed, fewer Seattle drivers. But starting next year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) may be intentionally slowing down drivers on I-5 in hopes that it will ease traffic. more ›

Remember SimCity? Seattlest had some incredible towns built in that game, with commercial and residential districts packed full of shiny, tall towers and trains and street traffic all flowing as effortlessly as rivers. Scroll way over to the left to the edge of the city grid; now that is a healthy industrial district, perfectly bisected by a pollution-eating green belt. The landmarks sprouted everywhere and the money and accolades poured in. Of course, it took many hours to bring the little guys to the pinnacle of urban development, and then, since the game never ends, it took another many hours to tinker the place into slums and ruin, rezoning here, tearing out a transportation hub there, until finally you had to unleash natural disasters upon the land just to keep yourself interested. more ›

That headline was designed to hector Seattle because we know how awful it is for this part of the world to be compared to New York City. But showing Seattle how New York does something better seems to produce results (the M's notwithstanding). This time they're creating truly bike-friendly streets. more ›

The past two days, contributors Jeremy "The Seattle Samurai" Barker and Katie "The Kalama Quickdraw" Tiehen debated the age-old question of whether Seattle or Portland is better. more ›

Seattle. Portland. Which one's better? You may say: "How can you choose? Each has their good points. It's like asking which religion is better." Guess what, asshole, that Negative Nellie attitude is the reason nobody ever asks for your fucking opinion. Jerk. To the debate! First up, it's a pro-Seattle opinion. more ›

It's a little known made-up fact that soon after the Oregon Trail was blazed a group sprang up to oppose its expansion. It's the very first example of a long and illustrious tradition of opposing the expansion of transportation projects in our region that flows directly into opposing the monorail and the 520 and Viaduct replacements. So ingrained is this instinct to oppose that Seattlest found a petition signed by 15 local residents the other day asking that we please quit cutting across our front yard to get to the door of our duplex. more ›

A week ago a helpful neighbor of Seattlest's reported the fact that our car hadn't moved in ten months to the city. Chalk on the tires, then a ticket and then an impound notice appeared in quick succession. Fair enough. However, the car hadn't moved since 2006 partly because we despise the automobile and all of the congestion, traffic and earthly ruination it stands for, and partly because it wouldn't start. At 11:59 on Sunday this car--which has zero cash value and, in fact, requires several hundred dollars of repair to be drivable--would be towed and impounded at our expense. The greatest thing that could possibly have happened would be for it to be stolen and never recovered. Alas. If only we'd seen the P-I's handy guide today we'd have known to leave it unlocked and running in a dark spot, crammed full of valuables... more ›

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. more ›

There's been many an ode penned to the backseat lovechild, but not so much the "caught in rush-hour traffic delivery." There in our news feed we spied the unusual byproduct of increased traffic congestion: roadside baby deliveries. In what the Seattle Times is calling a "rash of roadway births" (augh), the 4th King County Interstate-5 baby was delivered yesterday. more ›

Geov Parrish in this week's Seattle Weekly has bought the city's line about a new push to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. more ›

Magnolia is getting a new bridge, if the city can get some money to pay for it. more ›

When we posted last week about the Summer Nights concert series coming to Gasworks Park we were kind of surprised that there seemed to be only limited negative response to the plan. Well, if we'd have only waited around for a few minutes we would have realized that the Seattle Times was still teasing it out. Today they published their "Lamers In An Uproar Over Fun In Neighborhood" piece. more ›

Seattlest (like much of Seattle) likes to ignore the Viaduct's continued existence. Sure, we're as happy as anyone to propound our right-thinking solution to a disinterested audience, but the weather's been very nice. We've had other things on our plate. more ›

The American Automotive Association has chimed in on the fact that the 520 is a problem--something that anyone who lives, works, or once had to go to that one store that only exists on the eastside already knows. more ›