Tag: seattle times

August 12, 2024

Seattle Times: The attention after February’s cougar attack has faded, but the women’s trauma continues

Keri Bergere, Annie Bilotta, Tisch Schmidt-Williams, Aune Tietz and Erica Wolf will receive the Carnegie Medal “for extraordinary acts of heroism” following their widely-reported effort to fight off a cougar that attacked Bergere while the group was biking northeast of Fall City in February. But behind the truly remarkable story of bravery and perseverance are…
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tagged: annie bilotta, auna tietz, cougars, erica wolf, keri bergere, seattle times, tisch williams, xavier martinez
February 16, 2024

Seattle Times writes about moving by bike featuring Seattle Bike Blog

If you can make it happen, moving by bike is the best way to move. We did it back in 2017 when we moved from the Central District to the U District/Wallingford, and it turned a very tedious task into a fun day full of smiling bike riders and bewildered on-lookers. And the most surprising…
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tagged: brock howell, jiaying grygiel, move by bike, seattle times
May 22, 2023

Ballard HS Student: Missing bike racks limit biking to school in Seattle

Lucas Salm-Rojo, a junior at Ballard High School, wrote an excellent op-ed for the Seattle Times this week arguing that Seattle Public Schools is making it harder for students to bike to school because not every school has adequate — or any — bike parking. And the problem is particularly apparent at at schools serving…
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tagged: ballard high school, bike to school, lucas salm-rojo, seattle public schools, seattle times
February 15, 2023

People crash cars and trucks into Seattle buildings twice a week on average

Make eye contact, wear bright clothes and only cross the street at designated locations. These are common instructions dictated to people trying to navigate our cities on foot in order to avoid getting hit by a car. What advice then should we be telling our homes and businesses, which were struck by cars and trucks…
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tagged: cars into buildings, charles mudede, david kroman, seattle times
December 7, 2022

Thorness: 5 Seattle holiday light bike routes

I like holiday lights as much as the next person. In fact, I like them so much that I never took the lights off my house after last winter! But sitting in idle traffic in the middle of a neighborhood waiting for a chance to see some lights outside a car window? No thank you.…
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tagged: bill thorness, seattle times
July 20, 2022

Man struck and killed on Harbor Island identified. RIP Robert Mason

The man struck and killed while biking on Harbor Island Friday has been identified as Robert Mason, West Seattle Blog reports. He was 63. We send our deepest condolences to his loved ones. Police are still looking for the person driving a white or silver sedan who struck and killed Mason while he was crossing…
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tagged: harbor island, robert mason, seattle times, west seattle, west seattle blog