Myurie Ausler gets help walking. Screenshot from King 5 (click to watch)
Here’s a very important story that got buried by all the Super Bowl frenzy: A woman who was struck while walking across Rainier Ave January 23 spoke to King 5 recently about what it has been like to recover physically and get through the trauma of being struck in a crosswalk by someone in a pickup who fled the scene.
According to police, the suspect is a 50-year-old white man with plate number: WA B33705Z. Anyone with information should call Detective Parker at 206.233.0059.
But whether the suspect is found or not, Myurie Ausler is left to recover and wonder why this happened. Here’s the video: (more…)
UPDATE 2/4: Orgnaizers have decided to cancel the planned #BikeLove party Thursday. Be on the lookout for details about an April 2 event.
Details on the cancellation from WAbikes:
After reviewing the weather report that predicts some stiff winds in addition to 100% chance of rain, and considering the combination of wind with a welding bike art sculptor and pop-up canopies, we decided we were better off postponing it since we didn’t want to add a fire display.
April 2 makes a great date for a bike event as the second day of 30 Days of Biking.
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All the partners we had for Feb. 5 are committed for April 2: Zipcar Seattle, Cycle Pronto, Hilliard’s Beer, International Sustainability Institute & Alley Network Project, Back Alley Bike Repair, Washington Bikes.
Early heads-up for First Thursday May 7, too: Washington Bikes will hold a Bike Happy Hour as one of the four that Cascade Bicycle Club promotes during National Bicycle Month.
There was Kirkland before the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail, and now there is Kirkland after.
The city officially opened the interim hardpack gravel trail over the weekend, and now the Eastside city has a flat and safe biking and walking route connecting Totem Lake to the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride and nearly to the 520 Trail.
While not paved with asphalt, the hardpack gravel surface is easy to ride on. If you can handle bumps on a typical Seattle neighborhood street, you can handle this trail surface.
And you will be glad you did. Including detours, it’s 6.3 miles across Kirkland with almost no elevation change. No bike route like this has ever existed before in this very hilly city (the blip in the elevation graph below is a temporary detour about Google campus construction): (more…)
Do you read this blog and feel like maybe you could help make streets in the Seattle area safer or area bike routes better connected? Well, Saturday is a great chance to meet people from all corners of the city and region to look ahead at the upcoming year and plan how to make it happen.
Cascade Bicycle Club is organizing a Connect Seattle Summit, bringing together the club’s various Connect advocacy groups and other safe streets groups like Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for an afternoon of strategizing and networking.
The summit will go from noon to 3 p.m. at the new Cascade Bicycling Center in Magnuson Park. You can RSVP online here. If you want to bike to the summit with other folks in your neighborhood, group rides are being organized from all over.
Prosecutors for the City of Kirkland will not pursue any charges against the woman who struck and killed Kyle Warnick while he walked his dog in a city crosswalk September 15. He was 43.
Kyle was one of a kind. His love for life was . . . well simply amazing! He embraced all aspects of life. Kyle loved to weave a good story. He was a true “Story Teller” and used his story telling talent in most everything he did from presentations at Microsoft to sitting around a campfire at a boys scout outing.
Kyle always had a smile as wide as the sky and when he laughed, it was truly contagious so we all joined in. He was one that didn’t mind putting himself out there just to make others smile and laugh. We shall miss Kyle dearly and will remember him always. We will see his essence in many things that we say and do. We ask for continuous prayers for all who have been touched by Kyle.
Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
Even though the woman driving, who was 57 at the time, failed to yield to Warnick while he was walking his dog in a crosswalk, prosecutors declined to pursue the Negligent Driving charges created by the state’s Vulnerable User Law because “while a very tragic accident occurred, the City does not believe that we can prove Ms. [REDACTED] failed to exercise ordinary care or acted in a manner that a reasonably careful person would not have under the same or similar circumstances,” according to a letter to investigators by Blakeley Warbinton, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.
The reason the prosecutor couldn’t possibly prove negligence?
“She indicated she never saw the pedestrian.” (more…)
Anyone who bikes through UW campus regularly is familiar with changing Burke-Gilman Trail detours. So you probably won’t be surprised to learn that it’s changing again.
Just remember, it’s gonna be pretty awesome when the Montlake Triangle project is complete and the bike/walk bridge from Husky Stadium opens. The Montlake Triangle project is scheduled for completion in fall 2015. UW Station is scheduled to begin operation in early 2016.
