Tag: haley woods

July 3, 2017

Terrible person shoots Ballard safe streets advocate with pellet gun

Some terrible person shot Haley Keller with a pellet gun Monday night while she and her husband Dave were biking home from watching the sunset at Golden Gardens. Keller, a Connect Ballard advocate, Board Member of Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes, and co-founder of Pedder Brewing, said the pellet hit her in the thigh,…
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tagged: ballard, crime, golden gardens, haley keller, haley woods, seaview ave nw, spd
May 8, 2017

Despite more than a decade of bicycle activism, Ballard Bridge remains a danger

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is by Taylor McAvoy through our partnership with UW’s Community News Lab journalism course. Riding home at night a few years ago, Haley Keller had to cross the Ballard Bridge with its notoriously skinny three-foot-wide sidewalks. She usually carries only one bag on the left side of her bike rack to avoid…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, haley woods, jack connelly, jason fialkoff, news lab, scott kubly, sean cryan, taylor mcavoy, terry mcmacken
July 12, 2016

Pack these Ballard Missing Link meetings + Business owner’s video explains the options

OMG JUST BUILD THE MISSING LINK ALREADY!!!1!1!! OK, had to get that out of my system. As frustrating and drawn out as the seemingly endless Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link debate has been in recent decades (yes, decades!), we have never been this close to finally connecting the trail and saving an average of two people…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, haley woods, missing link, peddler brewing company
May 27, 2015

Here’s how to make the Ballard Bridge safer now without spending a fortune

The Ballard Bridge is awful for biking and walking. That’s been well documented. And the solutions studied to retrofit the bridge to make it better for biking and walking carried one hell of a price tag, perhaps somewhere in the $20–$40 million range. That price means that even if the city finds the cash, those…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, cascade bicycle club, connect ballard, haley woods, peddler brewing company, sean cryan
May 8, 2015

Watch these happy Cascade Bicycle Club videos

Cascade Bicycle Club hosed their Bike Everywhere Breakfast Thursday, and attendees saw a series of happy bike videos. I can’t think of a better post for this crazy sunny afternoon. First off, we already told you about the 1,000 postcards Connect Downtown leaders Rosalie Daggett and Lindsay Buzzo delivered to Mayor Ed Murray during the…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, connect downtown, diana nguyen, haley woods, kalpana kanal, lindsay buzzo, rosalie daggett
February 17, 2015

A video letter from a Peddler Brewing owner about the dangerous Ballard Bridge

This video letter from Peddler Brewing co-owner Haley Woods to city leaders about the terrible state of walking and biking on the Ballard Bridge is funny, strange and yet very serious. The tiny sidewalks further encroached by concrete pillars, the shin-high tripping ledge and the terrible bridge-end connections are completely unacceptable, especially for such a…
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tagged: ballard, connect ballard, haley woods, peddler brewing company, videos