Tag: sean cryan
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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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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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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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