Tag: ed murray
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Murray reverses his position about NE 75th Street bike lanes
The Ed Murray campaign this morning backtracked on his answer to Feet First about the NE 75th Street bike lanes, saying the project was “not a mistake.” As we reported yesterday, Murray had originally told Feet First that the project was a mistake because it removed parking and included bike lanes. However, city studies had…
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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…
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Murray calls Burke-Gilman Trail a ‘treasure,’ hopes for a safe completion of the Ballard Missing Link
Ed Murray’s campaign issued a statement today saying that his comments to the Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin came off as “overly skeptical” of the city’s plans to complete the Burke-Gilman Trail’s notorious “Missing Link” in Ballard. We wrote about his comments yesterday, as they seemed to imply that he opposed completing the long-sought trail segment.…
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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…
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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…
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Comparing bike commute rates to the mayoral primary results
The Seattle Times released an interactive map this week visualizing Seattle’s mayoral primary election precinct-by-precinct. So I thought, How do the results compare to bike commute rates? As you can see above, there is a correlation between neighborhoods with high bike commute rates (the darkest green sections are nine percent or higher) and votes for…
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