Tag: king 5

December 6, 2010

Scoffing at pedestrian safety

I am blown away by the backlash against a recent SDOT pedestrian safety campaign. You may be asking, Wait, there are people who are against a marketing campaign aimed at decreasing collisions between cars and people walking? Yes. The charge was led by King 5, whose basic thesis is that the colorful umbrellas SDOT is…
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tagged: king 5, sdot, walking
July 27, 2010

Pushing the car vs bike fight is not helping

Clearly, I am not someone who shies away from a good car vs bike fight … when it makes sense. But so often, they are unnecessary and distract from other surrounding issues, such as pedestrian safety. The pedestrian safety issues alone are enough to make the Nickerson changes (construction starts today) a valuable and important…
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tagged: bike nerd, cars vs bikes, king 5, nickerson
July 18, 2010

Being blind won’t stop woman from biking Seattle to Portland

Eleni Teshome is one of thousands of people biking in the Seattle to Portland ride this weekend, and she is determined to make it even though she is blind.
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tagged: blind, eleni teshome, ethiopian community mutual association, king 5, stp, tandem
July 17, 2010

Godspeed, Seattle to Portland riders

Update: Biking Bis has great photos and STP history. The STP ride started this morning. For those of us left up in Seattle, the Burke-Gilman is a little lonelier. Good luck, everyone. Stay safe and enjoy yourselves. King 5 has a report focusing a bit on how the riders will affect car traffic (whoo!):
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tagged: cascade, king 5, stp