Tag: tammy morales

May 18, 2022

Councilmember Morales: ‘No excuse’ for city failing to make streets safer

Another person was struck and killed by a car in SoDo last week. My deep condolences to their friends and family. These pedestrian and biking deaths are unacceptable because they're completely avoidable. There is no excuse for not creating safer streets and sidewalks. None. pic.twitter.com/F9UtryZ3Fn — Councilmember Tammy J. Morales (@CMTammyMorales) May 18, 2022 Councilmember…
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tagged: tammy morales, vision zero
May 12, 2022

Person killed while biking in SoDo just a block from site of January death

A person driving a Jeep struck and killed someone biking in SoDo Wednesday morning, according to Seattle Police. The driver of the Jeep was trying to exit a parking lot onto 4th Avenue near Holgate Street, and told police they were looking south for a break in traffic so they could turn north onto 4th.…
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tagged: 4th ave s, deaths, holgate, sodo, spd, tammy morales
August 26, 2020

Seattle’s proposed scooter rules set riders up for failure

Banning electric scooters on sidewalks seems to make sense at first. Sidewalks are for walking, right? That seemed to be the guiding principle behind Seattle’s decision to mostly leave the existing ban on riding electric scooters on sidewalks in place while launching a permit scheme to allow large numbers of shared scooters to start operating…
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tagged: jenny durkan, lorena gonzález, scooter share, tammy morales
July 30, 2020

Council puts less-deep transit cuts to voters in November

Transit is getting cut. But Seattle voters will have the chance in November to make the cuts less awful by approving the Seattle Transportation Benefit District’s (“STBD”) sales tax measure. As we reported previously, state legislators and the court-pending voter approval of 2019’s I-976 have put the city in a very tough spot. Seattle voters…
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tagged: city council, lorena gonzález, sdot, tammy morales, transportation benefits district
June 9, 2020

City Councilmembers show the leadership our city needs + Mayor Durkan should resign

EDITOR’S NOTE: Seattle Bike Blog supports the Defund Seattle Police effort initially led by a large group of community organizations and leaders, including No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Block the Bunker, Seattle Peoples Party, COVID-19 Mutual Aid, Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, BAYAN, La Resistencia, PARISOL, CID Coalition, Asians for Black Lives, APICAG.…
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tagged: black lives matter, city council, defund seattle police, girmay zahilay, jenny durkan, joe nguyen, king county equity now, kshama sawant, Lisa herbold, lorena gonzález, nicole macri, tammy morales, teresa mosqueda
October 14, 2019

District 2 Endorsement: Tammy Morales

District: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Register to vote in King County Perhaps this exchange from a September candidate forum best sums up bike leanings among the District 2 candidates: "Whenever roads are getting torn up, we should require that the bike lanes get built." @TammyMoralesSEA@VoteMarkSolomon response:…
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tagged: 2019 general election, city council district 2, mark solomon, tammy morales