Tag: slog
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Sanders: W Seattle bike commute was ‘easy, urban, beautiful, bracing’
Eli Sanders over at Slog rode along with the evening commute back to West Seattle and found the ride to be easy, fast and even historic, given the views of Viaduct construction (deconstruction?) you get to take in along the way. As we wrote earlier this week, biking is absolutely the best (and fastest) way…
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The war on cars that never was, remembered
A column by Jason Gay yesterday in the Wall Street Journal takes a look back at New York’s bickering over the city’s supposed “war on cars.” Now that the weather has improved and more people are riding around town, all that rhetoric seems to have died out now that it is “eclipsed by reality.” From…
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On other blogs: ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have to buy a car to get a job.’
Streets for All Seattle held a kickoff event Thursday to raise funds for their campaign to get the city to invest $30 million annually in bicycle, pedestrian and transit infrastructure. The mayor and members of the City Council were there, and Slog quoted McGinn: “People have a certain vision of what the future should be,”…
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