Tag: west seattle

February 14, 2012

Neighborhood greenways groups multiplying: Now forming in W, NE Seattle

The call for neighborhood greenways just keeping gaining momentum. Within just the past week, Central Seattle Greenways held its first meeting (post on that coming soon!), West Seattle Greenways has announced its first big meeting and NE Seattle Greenways is holding a formative organizational meeting. The people behind the West Seattle group have already had…
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tagged: bryant elementary, eckstein middle school, laurelhurst, neighborhood greenways, northeast seattle, ravenna, roosevelt, view ridge, west seattle
February 1, 2012

Sick of debris, W Seattle commuter is organizing Saturday trail clean-up

You have probably noticed that since the week-long snow storm, bike lanes and trails around the city are full of debris. The street sweepers are out there, but it’s going to take a while for all the bike lanes and bike trails to get cleared. Well, one West Seattle commuter decided he was sick of…
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tagged: debris, fat guy on a bike, neal poland, snow, west seattle
January 19, 2012

Snow won’t stop the Riding Reporter (and many others) + VIDEO

The Riding Reporter‘s Anne-Marije Rook made this video yesterday in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood: With powdery snow on the ground and most cars staying in driveways or buried under snow in the streets, many of the adventurous souls who ventured out on two wheels yesterday described the experience as a biking paradise. OK, maybe “paradise”…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, mike lindblom, phinney ridge, riding reporter, seattle times, snow, video, west seattle
December 20, 2011

Cops mock West Seattle man struck by truck while jogging to work

“That’s why you drive a car!” said one Seattle Police officer responding to the scene of a man struck by a semi truck near the foot of West Seattle’s lower bridge while he was jogging to work during the October Viaduct shutdown. The city encouraged people to find other ways of getting to work during…
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tagged: injuries, komo, spd, tim nelson, walking, west seattle
November 11, 2011

DubSea Bikes holding monthly bike tune-up event Sat. in White Center

DubSea Bikes is a relatively new group that is looking to encourage more bicycle riding in White Center and southern West Seattle. One of the major challenges people encounter in White Center is the lack of a bike shop and the simple ability to fix a broken bike to get it back on the roads.…
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tagged: dubsea bikes, west seattle, white center
October 26, 2011

Sanders: W Seattle bike commute was ‘easy, urban, beautiful, bracing’

Eli Sanders over at Slog rode along with the evening commute back to West Seattle and found the ride to be easy, fast and even historic, given the views of Viaduct construction (deconstruction?) you get to take in along the way. As we wrote earlier this week, biking is absolutely the best (and fastest) way…
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tagged: commuting, eli sanders, slog, west seattle