Another fact that gets lost in the bikes-vs.-cars debate: Maintaining our roads helps cyclists, too.
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Another fact that gets lost in the bikes-vs.-cars debate: Maintaining our roads helps cyclists, too.
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The Seattle Times’ thinly disguised front-page editorial against paid parking gets it wrong. Here’s why.
More »The Seattle Times’ Nicole Brodeur gets the facts wrong on road diets. Yes, all of them.
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A recent study shows that reckless drivers can be trained to drive less recklessly. But the real solution would be to punish drivers who kill or maim people instead of letting them back on the road.
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Mayor Mike McGinn’s potential light-rail ballot proposal—a Seattle-only line, funded by car owners in the city, running to Ballard and West Seattle—sounds awfully … familiar.
More »Today, the Seattle Times reports that a 28-year-old man has been charged with “soliciting sex from” a 12-year-old girl. The C is for Crank would like to point out that “sex” between a 28-year-old and a 12-year-old isn’t “sex.” There’s another word for that—one that “objective” newspapers like the Times are too often reluctant to [...]
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The bike lane on Second Ave. downtown is the most dangerous lane in the city.
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Sound Transit’s recent announcement/reminder that scarce bike racks on light-rail trains are also for luggage raises questions about how well the popular bike storage spaces are faring.
More »SHARE, the homeless-advocacy and shelter group, continues to demand that the city give it extra funding, no strings attached, for bus fare to and from its shelters. The latest temper tantrum: Threatening to close most of their shelters.
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Once more, with feeling: Cyclists should not be required to pay for special licenses, because cycling (unlike driving) produces more benefits than costs.
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Mayor Mike McGinn’s proposed nightlife initiative contains a lot of sensible ideas that would make Seattle’s nightlife scene safer and more sane. Unfortunately, the best ideas are ones McGinn himself can’t do anything about.
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If King County wants voters to approve a sales-tax hike to pay for public safety, county officials and the unions need to get serious about cutting costs.
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Two anti-growth activists argue against a different kind of density—job density. But moving jobs to the suburbs is not the “green” solution they claim it is.
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The city could only raise the sales tax 0.1 percent if a sales-tax increase fails to pass the county, county staffers now say. Also, my predictions about the tax.
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Feminist swoon alert: Pramila Jayapal, the director of the OneAmerica immigration reform group, cowrote a piece last month with Gloria Steinem making the case that immigration is a women’s issue.
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