Tag: dexter

October 12, 2011

Dexter is a next generation Seattle bike facility (VIDEO)

The repaved and redesigned Dexter Ave N has been open for a couple weeks now, and so far I have only heard praise for the road’s design. The wide bike lanes with several feet of buffer space make biking remarkably low-stress. It just feels safe. The bus islands appear to be working well for people…
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tagged: 2nd ave, buffered bike lanes, dexter, downtown, queen anne, separated bike lanes
September 26, 2011

Safe Streets Social provides space for healing, calls for change

80 or so people gathered in Lake Union Park to ride in memory of people killed on our streets. But the Safe Streets Social was also about creating an opportunity for bicycle riders who have been shaken by news of recent bicycling deaths to come together and support each other, mourn those killed and take…
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tagged: brian fairbrother, dexter, fairview, mike wang, robert townsend, safe streets social, south lake union, south lake union park, university district
September 2, 2011

Using example of Wang’s death, Economist argues for protected bikeways

“Calmer traffic is just the beginning,” argues The Economist in a short article this week calling for protected bicycle facilities. To illustrate their point, they point to the death of Mike Wang, who was struck and killed in a hit-and-run in July: DYING while cycling is three to five times more likely in America than…
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tagged: dexter, mike wang, rechanelizations, road diets, separated bike lanes, the economist, traffic calming
August 19, 2011

Police seize SUV in investigation of hit-and-run that killed Wang

Police may have a lead in the hit-and-run that killed Mike Wang on Dexter Ave at Thomas St last month. Though police are not calling the Port Orchard woman a “suspect,” but she is “under investigation.” Seattle Crime has more details: According to a search warrant affidavit filed earlier this month, about a week after…
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tagged: deaths, dexter, hit and run, mike wang, seattle crime, thomas
August 9, 2011

Wang started taking documentary photos at Tiananmen Square

Mike Wang, the man who was killed in a July 28 hit-and-run on Dexter Ave in South Lake Union, had been working as a photographer for PATH, documenting the work of the global health nonprofit. But Wang got his start in documentary photography during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, according to a 2006 profile in…
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tagged: ballard news tribune, deaths, dexter, mike wang, south lake union, thomas, tiananmen square
August 5, 2011

Is lowering speed limits the key to increased safety on Dexter?

Alan Durning wrote a column for the Seattle Times earlier this week arguing that, in light of Mike Wang’s death and other senseless traffic fatalities in our state, Washington should follow nearby states and provinces by allowing municipalities to lower their speed limits. Sightline has since published a longer version of the column on their…
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tagged: 20’s plenty, 2011 legislature, alan durning, cindy ryu, dexter, hb 1217, mike wang, neighborhood greenways, road diet, sightline