Tag: king 5

March 4, 2015

Seattle’s plummeting bike collision rate may have stalled

As more people bike in a city, the total number of bicycle-involved collisions often remains flat. Sometimes it rises a little, and sometimes it falls. But the “safety in numbers” bike safety phenomenon is surprisingly consistent: The more people bike, the further the collision rate falls. Seattle appeared to be the poster child for this.…
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tagged: american communities survey, king 5, vision zero
February 19, 2015

Yes, Seattle has a parking problem. There’s way too much of it.

There are half a million on-street parking spaces in Seattle, and almost all of them are completely free to use. That’s 60 million square feet of city land, or 1,378 acres. And that’s not counting all the parking lots, parking garages or home driveways and garages. Sightline estimates that between 10 and 20 percent of…
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tagged: alan durning, downtown, king 5, linda byron, mike lindblom, parking, seattle times, sightline
January 28, 2015

State Senate Transportation Chair wants to toll people biking across 520 Bridge. Yes, really.

Usually when people throw out ideas this bad, we just ignore them. But this one comes from the Washington State Senate’s Transportation Committee Chair, so I guess we need to respond. No, tolling people biking on the new 520 Bridge is not in any way a good idea. It’s true, Senator Curtis King (R-Yakima) told…
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tagged: curtis king, king 5, sr 520
October 9, 2014

After 2 collisions at same 2nd Ave parking garage, city makes changes

After the second person in just one week was injured by a person turning across the 2nd Ave protected bike lane into a parking garage between Pike and Union, the city has made changes to improve visibility. Most early efforts to improve the bike lane focused on the signalized intersections, which makes sense because that…
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tagged: 2nd ave, dongho chang, injuries, king 5, protected bike lanes
September 24, 2014

Thoughts on SPD bike enforcement: Focus on safety (also, King 5 gets bike laws wrong)

King 5 has been pressing Seattle PD on the issue of enforcing traffic laws on people who bike and has a report out this morning saying that recent SPD bike law efforts are switching from giving out warnings to giving out tickets. We here at Seattle Bike Blog are totally in favor of reasonable and…
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tagged: helmet laws, king 5, spd
March 25, 2014

King 5 interviews Dan Schulte ahead of today’s memorial walk

Though few people in our nation can say they have never had a friend or family member who has been involved in a serious traffic collision, the Schulte family’s past year has been unimaginable. One year ago, Judy and Dennis Schulte were killed when a drunk driver plowed into them while out on a walk…
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tagged: dan schulte, judy and dennis schulte, king 5, safe roads awareness week