Tag: seattle times
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Neighborhood greenway promoter draws a line in the planter strip sandbox
With just a simple sand box, Paulo Nunes-Ueno has challenged the city to reimagine the balance between safety and active community life. Nunes-Ueno is the transportation and sustainability director at Seattle Children’s and a promoter of neighborhood greenways. When he and his family moved to a new home in the Wallingford/Green Lake area, he installed…
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Memorial for Nap Cantwell Thursday, his would-be 19th birthday
As Nap Cantwell entered adulthood, his personality began to shine. But now friends and family are mourning the loss of a man they hardly had the chance to know. Cantwell was running late for work when, riding his father’s bike, he collided with the side of a van at Pike and Boren the morning of…
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Judge throws out SLU streetcar crash lawsuit
A King County Superior Court judge has dismissed claims by a group of people seriously injured on the South Lake Union streetcar tracks after they were dangerously installed in the curb lane of the previously-popular bicycling route. They plan to appeal the decision, according to the Seattle Times: Judge Harry McCarthy last week agreed with…
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Times: Kirkland rail corridor plans aim high
The City of Kirkland has some big hopes for the 5.75 miles of Eastside Rail Corridor it is on the verge of purchasing from the Port of Seattle (see our previous story). The Seattle Times reports that City Manager Kurt Triplett sees the right-of-way as Kirkland’s “equivalent of the Louisiana Purchase” because of its potential…
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Times: As biking in Seattle grows dramatically, number of crashes stays the same
While I was busy ranting about a questionable Letter to the Editor the Seattle Times Ed Board chose to publish, Mike Lindblom in the news department was working on a story about how the number of bicycle crashes and collisions in Seattle is staying constant even as the number of people biking increases dramatically. According…
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Dear Seattle Times Ed Board, Letters to the Editor are still supposed to be factual
A front page news story on neighborhood greenways in the Seattle Times earlier this week prompted what I thought was a pretty conversation on the blog about how people looking to promote neighborhood greenways should present them: Good for children, efficient and comfortable for people walking and biking and cost effective, to name a few…
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