City Photo Op Sunday/Protest Sunday
posted by on August 24 at 14:05 PM
Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Exec Ron Sims (along with Vulcan and light-rail consult Parsons Brinkerhoff) are hosting a photo shoot sponsored by International Sustainable Solutions this Sunday, August 26, at 11 am, to promote a new “commuter toolkit” aimed at “showing the benefits of moving people through our downtown on foot, bicycles, buses, or light rail, rather than in their cars.” While the commuter toolkit looks like it illustrates the problem effectively (showing how much space 200 commuters take moving through the city by car, bus, light rail, and bike), I’m hesitant to recommend participating in a photo op hosted by a mayor whose commitment to the city’s “Complete Streets” policy has been questionable at best. A group of bike-based protesters (last seen protesting the elimination of a bike lane from Stone Way at a Fremont business owner’s behest) plans to show up to remind the mayor of that very commitment; more information is available here.
I didn't know this was a Mayor thing...is it for his campaign?
Well that seems awfully petty of you.
Erica C. Barnett = Kemper Freeman: Just as dogmatic and just as credible.
Oh, Ivan, if you believe that, why aren't you showing up at the photo shoot on a skateboard?
Uh huh.
Sure.
Thought so.
On a side note, Erica's story on the non-I-5 crunch was okay except for her observation that the correct thing to do now that 120,000 vehicle trips seem to have disappeared from I-5 is to close the Viaduct. We clearly can live without our cars. Right, maybe, but the actual correct answer is to close I-5 now that we've shown over a long-enough time period that we really don't need it. Poor Roseanne, it's always something.
Saw on the news last night that ol' "pedestrian friendly" Nickels has also declared "war on crosswalks" and is ripping them out across four-lane roads across the city.
This is starting to peg my bullshit meter.
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