Tag: downtown
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Man charged with vehicular assault for speeding and crashing into woman on bike downtown
Tyler J Gilstrom, 24, has been charged with vehicular assault for seriously injuring a woman on Alaskan Way shortly before 5:30 p.m. March 1 (a Friday), the PI reports. Gilstrom was going 60 on his Honda motorcycle when he crashed into a 64-year-old woman on a bike. They were both headed southbound just two blocks…
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Bike Master Plan Draft 2: Central Seattle
The last day to comment on the second draft of the Bicycle Master Plan is Friday. Email your comments to [email protected]. This post is a continuation of a series investigating some of changes in the newest draft of the Bike Master Plan. In general, the updated Bike Master Plan includes a lot of bold and…
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Updated waterfront plans lay out more bikeway, street design details
Waterfront Seattle recently held a public meeting to unveil updated plans for the streetscape, transit, walking and biking experience on the soon-to-be renovated downtown waterfront. Plans include a two-way bikeway on the waterfront side of the street, separated from both vehicle traffic and the walking promenade. If you are biking from the Alaskan Way Trail…
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Bike expert John Pucher gives downtown Seattle a scathing review
Rutgers Professor and longtime bike researcher John Pucher is in town for the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium. Pucher’s research and the book he co-authored, City Cycling, has been influential on shifting North American thinking about cycling away from fit, brave people biking in traffic or on skinny painted bike lanes toward people of all ages and…
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A sneak peek inside the downtown Timbuk2 store
Timbuk2 is getting ready to open the doors on its downtown retail store May 4, the company’s first store outside its hometown San Francisco. It is also their first store in a downtown location anywhere. “Being our first store outside San Francisco, we wanted to expose ourselves to a wider market,” said Retail Manager Bryan…
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Timbuk2 opening store downtown – UPDATED
Timbuk2, the San Francisco messenger bag maker, is expanding their brick-and-mortar store presence outside San Fransisco. And what city is first on their list? Seattle. This is according to Seattle Met, which says the company has plans for a 1,400 square-foot space downtown. We have attempted to contact Timbuk2 to learn more about their plans.…
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