Tag: mike wang

November 4, 2015

The true cost of Move Seattle

Mike Wang was biking home to his family one evening in July 2011 when a man driving an SUV made a quick left turn and killed him on Dexter Ave. It’s impossible to fill a hole in the world the size of Mike Wang, but through all the tears and pain and anger that followed,…
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tagged: brian fairbrother, caleb shoop, judy and dennis schulte, mike wang, move seattle, move seattle levy, sher kung
August 15, 2014

City finally planning road safety project on Dexter between Denny and Mercer

Dexter Ave may never go back to being the dangerous, super wide street it was before major construction began a few months ago between Mercer and Denny in South Lake Union. The city is planning a road safety redesign for the street, which is a major bike route and the scene of several serious collisions…
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tagged: dexter, mike wang, sdot, south lake union
August 5, 2013

City will study improvements to notorious section of Dexter between Denny and Mercer

Dexter Ave is among the busiest bike streets in the city. Unfortunately, it has also been the scene of far too many collisions, including a very serious one July 25 and, of course, the devastating collision that took the life of Mike Wang in 2011. Following Wang’s death, the city painted a couple feet of…
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tagged: brandon blake, complete streets, dexter, mike wang, sdot, streetmix
August 10, 2012

Driver who killed Mike Wang gets maximum penalty + His widow Claire’s letter to the judge

Erlin Garcia-Reyes was sentenced to 41 months in prison today, the maximum penalty for felony hit and run. He pleaded guilty last month to striking Mike Wang in the Dexter bike lane and killing him just over one year ago. Claire Allen, Wang’s widow, sent us the powerful letter she wrote to the sentencing judge:…
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tagged: claire allen, deaths, king county prosecutor, mike wang
August 7, 2012

Times op-ed: Remember Mike Wang by rethinking road behavior

As the one year anniversary of Mike Wang’s death passes, the courts are working to decide the sentence for the man who pleaded guilty to the hit and run that took his life. Meanwhile, Doug Palm from PATH (where Wang worked) and Jamie Cheney (Executive Director of Commute Seattle) co-wrote an op-ed for the Seattle…
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tagged: commute seattle, doug palm, jamie cheney, mike wang, PATH, seattle times
July 20, 2012

Mike Wang’s widow Claire seeks sentencing opinions for hit-and-run driver

Claire Allen, the widow of Mike Wang, is gathering community letters to send to the court where the man who pleaded guilty to the hit and run that killed her husband will be sentenced next month. Erlin Garcia-Reyes—a 28-year-old native of Honduras who worked at Blue C Sushi, according to charging documents—pleaded guilty earlier this…
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tagged: claire allen, courts, erlin garcia-reyes, king county prosecutor, mike wang