Tag: mike wang

September 23, 2011

Weekend Guide: Safe Streets Social Saturday + Bellevue transpo planning rides

Saturday’s “Safe Streets Social: A slow bike ride to honor the fallen and support each other” leaves South Lake Union Park at 4 p.m. We are meeting at 3, near the end of Moving Planet’s line-up of activities. We look forward to seeing you all there. Bring your friends and family, and wear orange if…
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tagged: brian fairbrother, events, lake union park, mike wang, robert townsend, safe streets social, south lake union, south lake union park
September 2, 2011

Using example of Wang’s death, Economist argues for protected bikeways

“Calmer traffic is just the beginning,” argues The Economist in a short article this week calling for protected bicycle facilities. To illustrate their point, they point to the death of Mike Wang, who was struck and killed in a hit-and-run in July: DYING while cycling is three to five times more likely in America than…
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tagged: dexter, mike wang, rechanelizations, road diets, separated bike lanes, the economist, traffic calming
August 19, 2011

Police seize SUV in investigation of hit-and-run that killed Wang

Police may have a lead in the hit-and-run that killed Mike Wang on Dexter Ave at Thomas St last month. Though police are not calling the Port Orchard woman a “suspect,” but she is “under investigation.” Seattle Crime has more details: According to a search warrant affidavit filed earlier this month, about a week after…
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tagged: deaths, dexter, hit and run, mike wang, seattle crime, thomas
August 9, 2011

Wang started taking documentary photos at Tiananmen Square

Mike Wang, the man who was killed in a July 28 hit-and-run on Dexter Ave in South Lake Union, had been working as a photographer for PATH, documenting the work of the global health nonprofit. But Wang got his start in documentary photography during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, according to a 2006 profile in…
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tagged: ballard news tribune, deaths, dexter, mike wang, south lake union, thomas, tiananmen square
August 5, 2011

Is lowering speed limits the key to increased safety on Dexter?

Alan Durning wrote a column for the Seattle Times earlier this week arguing that, in light of Mike Wang’s death and other senseless traffic fatalities in our state, Washington should follow nearby states and provinces by allowing municipalities to lower their speed limits. Sightline has since published a longer version of the column on their…
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tagged: 20’s plenty, 2011 legislature, alan durning, cindy ryu, dexter, hb 1217, mike wang, neighborhood greenways, road diet, sightline
July 29, 2011

Person killed in Dexter hit-and-run identified as Mike Wang

The man killed Thursday while biking on Dexter has been identified as Mike Wang, 44, a photographer for a nonprofit who rode his bike to work from his Shoreline home every day, according to the Seattle Times. A memorial has been set up at the site of the collision at Dexter and Thomas in South…
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tagged: deaths, dexter, mike wang, PATH, south lake union, thomas