Tag: 2013 mayoral race

October 21, 2013

Murray says NE 75th Street safety project was a ‘mistake’ because it removed unused parking

Ed Murray told Feet First recently that he thinks it was a mistake to install bike lanes on NE 75th Street, part of a road safety project demanded by neighbors following the devastating collision that killed Judy and Dennis Schulte and seriously injured Karina and weeks-old Elias. The bike lanes were installed as a way…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, ed murray, mike mcginn, ne 75th st
October 7, 2013

Ed Murray does not want to complete the Burke-Gilman Missing Link – UPDATED

“There goes my bike support,” Seattle mayoral candidate joked to the Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin after coming out against completing the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. I’m guessing that the hundreds — maybe thousands — of Seattle residents and visitors who have crashed and injured themselves on this stretch of notoriously dangerous road…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, ballard, burke-gilman trail, ed murray, mike mcginn, missing link
October 2, 2013

Ahead of fundraiser by group opposing a Westlake cycle track, Murray says ‘I support cycle tracks’

I received an email about a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Ed Murray recently from a group opposed to the idea of a safe bikeway connecting the Fremont Bridge and South Lake Union along Westlake Ave. That project, which has received grant funding, is still early in the design process. But a group of people concerned…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, ed murray, mike mcginn, westlake, westlake cycle track
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…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, seattle channel, seattle neighborhood greenways
June 27, 2013

Monday mayoral candidate forum will focus on safe, livable streets

Which candidates for mayor will make safe streets a top priority? Find out Monday at a mayoral candidate forum hosted in Madison Valley by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and sponsored by a long list of safe streets groups, including Seattle Bike Blog. In fact, I just may be one of the evening’s MCs along with Bike…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, central district, events, madison valley, seattle neighborhood greenways
April 19, 2013

A chat with mayoral candidate Kate Martin

Kate Martin may be way behind in the money game, but she thinks the other Seattle mayoral challengers are ignoring too many people. “They’re all going for the same voters,” Martin told Seattle Bike Blog during a recent chat at a coffee shop in her Greenwood neighborhood. The only woman in the 2013 race (side…
(read more…)

tagged: 2013 mayoral race, kate martin