Slog - Comments on Photo Op Sunday/Protest Sunday http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday 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... Copyright 2008 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:05:39 -0800 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:49:25 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by hey I didn't know this was a Mayor thing...is it for his campaign?

]]> hey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790470 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:16:06 -0800 Comment by daytrpr Well that seems awfully petty of you.

]]> daytrpr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790533 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:11:05 -0800 Comment by ivan Erica C. Barnett = Kemper Freeman: Just as dogmatic and just as credible.

]]> ivan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790539 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790539 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:20:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Oh, Ivan, if you believe that, why aren't you showing up at the photo shoot on a skateboard?

Uh huh.

Sure.

Thought so.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790541 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:21:26 -0800 Comment by chas Redmond 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.

]]> chas Redmond http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790694 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:17:24 -0800 Comment by Ted 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.

]]> Ted http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/photo_op_sundayprotest_sunday#c790738 City Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:49:25 -0800