Author: Tom Fucoloro
Seattle decided 9 years ago to kill the SLU Streetcar
The South Lake Union Streetcar broke down Friday, August 9, and nobody even noticed until King County Metro and SDOT sent out a press release about it the next Monday. Like, I searched through social media posts and could not find a single person mentioning issues riding the streetcar line the entire weekend that it…
$115/mo for an electric cargo bike? Wombi launches bike subscription service in Seattle, sets up in the old G&O space
Electric cargo bikes are incredible machines that can do a lot of what a car can do (and a lot a car can’t do) for a fraction of the cost. They are also a lot of fun. But even though $2,500 to $8,000 is not very much money compared to buying a car, it is…
You did it! WSDOT will not cut the Harvard Connection path to planned Roanoke Lid
The efforts by advocates at Central Seattle Greenways as well as readers like you have paid off. WSDOT announced that they are no longer planning to cut the Harvard Connection path to the planned Roanoke Lid as part of the SR-520 Portage Bay Bridge and Roanoke Lid Project. “Following conversations with legislators, our contractor, project…
Let SDOT know the Market/Leary Burke-Gilman route needs to separate walking and biking near storefronts
It is a great idea to redesign Leary Way NW and NW Market Street so they are safer for everyone while also connecting the Burke-Gilman Trail through Ballard, but SDOT’s current design needs significant work in order to achieve those goals. SDOT has not released any new details about Councilmember Dan Strauss’ Market/Leary plan since…
Trail connection to planned Roanoke Lid would restore a historic Seattle bike path + Tell WSDOT not to cut it
Not only would the Harvard Ave path connect the Roanoke Lid and 520 Trail along a safer and less steep route, it would also restore a small piece of Seattle’s first ever bike paths. You can support a Central Seattle Greenways effort to protect the proposed path from budget cuts on the freeway megaproject. The…
Seattle Times: The attention after February’s cougar attack has faded, but the women’s trauma continues
Keri Bergere, Annie Bilotta, Tisch Schmidt-Williams, Aune Tietz and Erica Wolf will receive the Carnegie Medal “for extraordinary acts of heroism” following their widely-reported effort to fight off a cougar that attacked Bergere while the group was biking northeast of Fall City in February. But behind the truly remarkable story of bravery and perseverance are…
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