THANK YOU ALL so much for coming out to support us and race the L8 last week. We are blown away by the support we have received and can’t believe how many people showed up. Our favorite photos are here! If you took any good shots that you want to share, email us or tag us on Bluesky. This will be an annual event until SDOT adds bus lanes!
Route 8 is so slow, we set out to race it doing the slowest things we knew and they all won! The conga line, cha cha slide, three legged race, juggle, jump rope, folk dance, etc — all faster than The L8! There’s a lot of media attention about this and it even got some positive reactions from City Hall!
- KUOW
- Real Change
- The Seattle Times (it was even on the front page of the 7/12 paper!)
- Seattle Transit Blog
- The Urbanist
- The Needling
But our work is far from over. We’re demanding full East and Westbound bus lanes on Denny but we’re hearing that SDOT is now only looking at a small eastbound bus lane near Seattle Center, nowhere near the race and in no way ambitious enough to Fix the L8.
We need to keep the pressure on:
- Sign our new action letter to the Mayor and City Council and send it to your friends
- Make sure you vote! There are elections for mayor and three city council seats this year and ballots for the primary go out this week!
- Send a personalized email to your councilmembers, give them a call, leave a voicemail, send a fax!
- Give public comment during City Transportation Committee meetings (first and third Tuesday of every month at 9:30 AM)
Tell your representatives that transit is important, how it’s impacted your life, that we need bus lanes, and that we need more transit service to meet our climate and livability goals. Next year will include a renewal of the Seattle Transit Measure, which funds extra transit service within Seattle, and whoever is mayor and on City Council then will decide if that renewal maintains the status quo or is an ambitious departure.
Nick and Jason
Fix the L8 leads
Photos available here!