Demiandgodon@mastodon.online
Nov 3, 2026, 5:52 AM@fullywoolly that’s quite the change in outlook! How did the change happen?
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Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.socialNov 3, 2026, 6:34 AM@dgodon more biking with the Burke/SRT making it possible to be connected to the city not by car. Dating someone in the city where I saw the benefits of slower streets, walkability really upped it. Before that I always lived on the East side because of work. Probably the biggest change recently though is after reading Life After Cars. Some of the ideas had already been percolating like Seattle not requiring parking. I was already against the space roads and parking took.
- Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.socialNov 3, 2026, 6:40 AM
@dgodon in general since living in Seattle including the east side, I realized how much damage we were doing by developing. I've been here since 2011 and even I can see how much we've deforested since. It really pushed me to wanting to have more density. I also read the book Abundance by Ezra Klein almost a year ago. I hadn't realized how NIMBY came to be and it made a lot more sense with that perspective. Also watching the city go from reasonable, to expensive, to unaffordable in 15 yrs