Tag: mike mcginn

October 20, 2011

More details on the city’s upcoming Road Safety Summit

The mayor’s office has released more details about the upcoming Road Safety Summit. The first forum will be at 6 p.m. October 24 in the Bertha K. Landes room at City Hall. From the mayor’s office: Please join us for a Road Safety Summit First meeting: October 24th, 6pm We invite you to participate in…
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tagged: mike mcginn, road safety summit, road safety summit 2011
October 19, 2011

The neighborhood safe speeds bill has unanimous, bipartisan support

20’s Plenty For Us from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Last year, freshman state Representative Cindy Ryu sponsored a bill that won wide, unanimous and bipartisan support. HB 1217 would allow municipalities to bypass red tape when lowering speed limits on non-arterial streets (such as residential streets). The House voted 92-0 to approve the bill, but it…
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tagged: beacon hill, bicycle alliance of washington, cindy ryu, hb 1217, king 5, mike mcginn, neighborhood greenways, willie weir
September 30, 2011

Mayor announces date of first road safety summit meeting

The first of three Road Safety Summit meetings will be October 24, Mayor Mike McGinn announced on his blog. The Summit was called after Robert Townsend became the third person killed while biking in Seattle this summer. “It’s time to stop finding fault with each other, and to start finding a remedy,” the mayor wrote…
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tagged: mike mcginn, road safety summit, road safety summit 2011
September 15, 2011

Mayor McGinn calls for road safety summit

Mayor Mike McGinn has called for “a summit of community leaders, experts and elected officials to determine how best we can encourage an attitude of responsibility and empathy on the roads, and make it safer for all users.” In a lengthy blog post, the mayor lays out the ways he plans to increase road safety.…
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tagged: city council, mike mcginn, road safety summit
August 24, 2011

Blinded by mayoral vendetta, the Weekly wildly misses the point of the NE 125th project

So, in case you haven’t been paying attention, the Seattle Weekly is a little upset with the mayor. Ever since Mayor McGinn put his sights on the Weekly and the Village Voice’s backpage.com for doing a piss-poor job of preventing their online service from enabling child prostitution, the Weekly has been pushing every little fragment…
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tagged: mike mcginn, mike seely, ne 125th, seattle weekly
June 30, 2011

Metro replacing bus bike rack arms + the mayor tweets about bike sharing

The outside arms on King County’s relatively new three-bike racks on the front of their buses are wearing out far more quickly than expected. The racks are still under warranty, so the manufacturer is sending replacement parts. However, you may want to be prepared to encounter a bus without a rack on the front. From…
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tagged: bike sharing, bike/bus combo, king county metro, mike mcginn