Tag: thomas

January 26, 2023

Friday: Critical Mass will ride to Dexter/Thomas to hold a vigil for Jaahnavi Kandula + Defunded safety project had been more than a decade in the making

Jaahnavi Kandula—a 23-year-old student from Adoni in the Andhra Pradesh state in India who was studying at the South Lake Union campus of Northeastern University—was walking across Dexter at Thomas Street in a marked crosswalk when a police officer driving an SPD SUV struck and killed her shortly after 8 p.m. Monday evening. Our condolences…
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tagged: critical mass, dexter, jaahnavi kandula, thomas
November 20, 2012

Bike Master Plan: Central Seattle and downtown

This is the second post in a series analyzing Seattle’s draft Bicycle Master Plan update, which is currently taking public comments. This post will focus on the central neighborhoods south of the Ship Canal and north of I-90. Stay tuned for future posts looking at other parts of the city. Central Seattle is, not surprisingly,…
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tagged: 2012 bicycle master plan update, 23rd ave, capitol hill, central district, central seattle greenways, downtown, gilman ave w, interbay, magnolia, queen anne, south lake union, thomas, westlake
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
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
November 10, 2010

A street between South Lake Union and Queen Anne designed for walking and biking

A cycle track on Thomas St from South Lake Union to Seattle Center could be an option for development, assuming the deep bore tunnel project goes through. Geoffrey Wentlandt of the Department of Planning and Development presented some updated concepts (these are in-process drafts) to the Bicycle Advisory Board (SBAB) last week of what could…
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tagged: deep bore tunnel, harrison, queen anne, seattle center, south lake union, thomas