Tag: andres salomon

December 12, 2017

As NE 65th Street safety changes develop, tell SDOT to keep sidewalks wide and bike lanes protected

NE 65th Street needs a safer design. People keep getting seriously injured and killed on this street, and that won’t stop until something changes. This point has been well established, with neighbors even leading a community memorial and march to protest the dangerous conditions and demand action from the city. Councilmember Rob Johnson, whose District…
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tagged: andres salomon, ne 65th, rob johnson, sdot
May 29, 2017

Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part Two)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part series by Andres Salomon looking at NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part One describes the urgent need for safety improvements along the part of 65th where five people have been killed and seriously injured in the past two years. Part Two looks at possible solutions. NE 65th…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt, roosevelt station
May 17, 2017

Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part One)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part One of a two-part series by NE Seattle Greenways leader and former mayoral candidate (“I ran for Mayor before it was cool“) Andres Salomon. In this post, Salomon gives an update on the need for NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part Two will cover potential designs that the city could build…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt
April 20, 2017

Citing new ‘exciting candidates,’ Salomon drops out of mayoral race

When Andres Salomon arrived at UW Station with a cargo bike full of homemade tamales and announced his campaign for Seattle mayor, he did so because it seemed nobody else was preparing to challenge the well-funded and seemingly-popular incumbent Ed Murray. Though Salomon (a past-and-hopefully-future contributor to Seattle Bike Blog) was concerned about three years…
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tagged: 2017 mayoral race, andres salomon
April 17, 2017

Mike McGinn will run for another term as mayor

Standing in the yard of his Greenwood house with his family — a couple campaign signs leaning against the white picket fence, perhaps dusted off after four years in storage — Mike McGinn announced his candidacy for mayor. This wil be his third mayoral campaign in eight years. And as he joked with media, he’s 50 percent on winning…
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tagged: 2017 mayoral race, andres salomon, ed murray, mike mcginn, nikkita oliver
February 22, 2017

NE 65th Street will get autumn quick fixes, bigger remake in 2018-19

After years of community urging and protest, Seattle is about to kick off a road safety project on NE 65th Street to address the street’s serious ongoing safety problems. People walking, biking and inside cars all continue to get seriously injured and killed on the street, which forms a barrier that splits the neighborhood in…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ed murray, inga manskopf, ne 65th, rob johnson, sdot