Tag: seattle times editorial board
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The Times Ed Board picks a confusing fight against the Emerald City Ride, free speech
Did you know that Cascade Bicycle Club not only hosts bike rides on streets but also advocates for investing in infrastructure to make streets safer for biking? What a scandal! Or at least the Editorial Board of the Seattle Times decided all of a sudden that this behavior is somehow scandalous. What’s not to like…
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After a butane truck crash on I-5 snarls traffic, the Times Ed Board blames … bike lanes?
It seemed every couple minutes, someone at KUOW radio would break into the news broadcast to let people know of another major traffic problem in the Seattle area. It was February 27, and a truck carrying butane had crashed on southbound I-5 downtown. The very hazardous payload forced brave emergency crews to close both directions of…
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Times: Stop building places for people until we can fit more cars
Seattle Times Editorial Board Member Brier Dudley penned his magnum opus on the rights of cars in Seattle this week, arguing that Seattle should stop building places for people to live and work until we can figure out how to get more cars into the city. And he exhumed the “WAR ON CARS” rotting horse…
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Support the Pronto expansion at today’s 2016 budget hearing
Pronto is just one year old, and already people have pedaled the equivalent distance from the earth to the moon and halfway back. That’s not too shabby considering the average trip on Pronto is less than 20 minutes and only 14 percent of Seattle residents live within an easy walk of a station. Well, that…
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The Times is wrong. A megaproject won’t fix our traffic, we need Move Seattle
The Seattle Times Editorial Board put all their backing behind Bertha and the SR 99 deep bore tunnel highway, a multibillion-dollar, cars-only underground toll road that bypasses downtown Seattle — our state’s biggest employment center. They are not worthy of your trust when it comes to transportation projects. So when the Times says to vote…
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Seattle Times Ed Board adds its support to the Westlake bikeway
The Seattle Times Editorial Board added its two cents about the Westlake bikeway project this weekend, backing the city’s plan to build protected bike lanes from the Fremont Bridge to Lake Union Park and praising Mayor Ed Murray’s ability to steer the process out of a litigation hole (so far, at least). When the Times…
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