Tag: white center
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White Center’s newest playground also helps kids learn to bike safely
It’s been a while since I was a kid, but I remember spending hour-upon-hour playing games where I pretended to do mundane things my parents did. I scanned play vegetables across a cash register (I don’t think I understood how bar codes work). I scribbled on carbon copy form paper and filed the sheets in…
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For community fun and safety education, White Center will get state’s first ‘traffic garden’
With mini versions of streets, traffic control signs, crosswalks and other elements of a real life street, a traffic garden is a safe and fun place for people (especially kids) to learn and practice the rules of the road. Such gardens are somewhat common in other parts of the world, but they are rare in…
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SW Roxbury safety changes a good start, bike lanes must wait for repaving
This has got to be a Seattle Bike Blog record: Four posts in a row about West Seattle! The city is hosting an open house tomorrow (Thursday) about planned safety changes to SW Roxbury Street, which forms the border between Seattle and White Center. The open house goes from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the…
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White Center businesses continue push for much-needed bike corral
A group of White Center businesses are still working to solve their street’s bike parking crunch by converting two car parking spaces in front of Proletariat Pizza and Caffe Delia into a bike corral for 20 bikes. But being (just barely) outside the Seattle city limits means they can’t simply request one through Seattle’s bike…
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West Seattle residents want bike corral at the Junction, White Center discusses first corral on 16th
Seattle has been doing a great job installing on-street bike corrals around town this year. Well, maybe not ALL around town. West Seattle still does not have a corral despite demand for one in the Junction business district, and residents have taken to writing open letters and urging elected officials to get involved and help…
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How I got my friend’s stolen bike back
When I glanced the flat-head screwdriver in his hand, time stopped. The shouting stopped. The shellack-coated handlebars gripped in my fingers stopped shaking and pulling away from me. For just one second, I focused so hard on that screwdriver that time froze. And for that second, only one thought was on my mind: I am…
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