Tag: sean cryan

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
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
July 2, 2012

Ballard blood drive July 8 will support key Ballard Bridge bike advocate

If you are a regular Ballard Bridge biker, you are certainly familiar with how frustrating it can be. The south end is dangerous, the sidewalks are skinny and bridge construction workers seem to close sidewalks without warning. But perhaps no other person in Seattle has been more instrumental in getting the city to take bike…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, events, sean cryan