Year: 2013

July 3, 2013

BikeWA: Stella and Caron search for meaning and solutions after witnessing a horrifying collision in Kirkland

Caron Lemay and her daughter Stella bike to school in Kirkland together regularly. But they are both haunted by what they saw, heard and felt one day on the way to school, when a person driving failed to see a man walking in the crosswalk and hit him hard. Caron and Stella’s story is jarring…
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tagged: 2013 legislature, bicycle alliance of washington, kirkland greenways
July 3, 2013

Video: Livable Streets Mayoral Forum + Mayoral race open thread

Thank you to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for inviting me to be a co-moderator of Monday’s Livable Streets Forum Monday. Thanks also to my partner-in-moderating Deb Salls, Executive Director of Bike Works. I’ve never moderated anything like this before, so it was a great learning experience. Biking home from the event, it hit me that Seattle…
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tagged: 2013 mayoral race, seattle channel, seattle neighborhood greenways
July 2, 2013

No more cutting through St. Demetrios parking lot: Street Fund candidate would pave dirt trail

If you have ever tried to get to Interlaken Drive from the Bill Dawson Trail under 520 near the Montlake Bridge, then you have probably gotten completely lost trying to find a way through the neighborhood streets. Turns out, your best option is to cut through the St. Demetrios Church parking lot. Well, if the…
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tagged: bill dawson trail, montlake, neighborhood street fund
July 2, 2013

Is this the weirdest bike rack in Seattle? + Metro’s new bike lockers cost a nickel an hour

After years of biking by these strange contraptions under I-5 at NE 65th St and Ravenna Boulevard (AKA the Green Lake Park & Ride), I finally decided to give them a try. Clearly designed as mid- or long-term bike parking for commuters (for example, Sound Transit 542 riders), the racks are designed to secure your…
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tagged: bike bank, graber, green lake park and ride
July 1, 2013

Biking Bis: Cedar River Trail segment will close for most of summer

A half-mile section of the Cedar River Trail between Renton and Maple Valley will be closed for most of the summer due so workers can conduct erosion control work. So if you want to get in a good ride on the trail before it closes (man, that thing is ALWAYS closed), you have to get…
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tagged: biking bis, cedar river trail, maple valley, renton
July 1, 2013

WA transpo package failure kills CRC highway project and bike/walk funding, hangs Metro out to dry

Though the State House of Representatives was able to pass a $10 billion transportation package late last week, the Senate decided to adjourn without considering the bill. The headlines in Portland are all about the CRC. The Washington legislature’s failure to approve funding for the massive Columbia River Crossing I-5 expansion between Vancouver, Wash. and…
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tagged: 2013 legislature, columbia river crossing, king county metro