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by Nathalie Graham • May 24, 2021 at 3:50 pm
Please enjoy the best picture of the four I took during this ride: my boyfriend looking at the route map on a very lovely bridge in Tukwila. Nathalie Graham
I learned recently that the saying time flies when you re having fun is a lie. Instead, the opposite is true.
Boring, mundane days skate by while the mind runs on autopilot. This is why your quarantine memories feel amorphous. Look, it s science. The real way to stop time slippage is to do something different. I made this fact my pep talk when I committed to a 32-mile bike ride earlier this month.
West Marginal Way SW along the stretch where SDOT is considering installing a protected bike lane in one southbound lane. (Ryan Packer)
The Seattle Freight Advisory Board devoted a significant portion of their April meeting detailing reasons that the City should not install a protected bike lane on a short segment of West Marginal Way SW. The presentation shown to board members was not reviewed by the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) for accuracy, according to a department spokesperson.
While a link to the virtual meeting was available on a City website, an agenda for the meeting was not, providing no way for members of the public to even be aware that it was being discussed. The Freight Advisory Board has also not posted the minutes from one of its meetings since last last July, so who knows when the fact that it had even been talked about would be available as a matter of public record.
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Montlake Bridge sees lots of bicycle and foot traffic. WSDOT had sought to double the lanes with a second bridge. (Credit: WSDOT).
In Washington state, our leaders like to talk about environmental protection and climate action. And then it comes time to pass a transportation funding package and those values go out the window. This year was shaping up to be no different until Senator Rebecca Saldaña (D-Seattle) stepped up with a much improved proposal. State legislators would be wise to sign on to her Evergreen Plan and the broader effort to curb transportation emissions while giving Washingtonians more climate-friendly ways to get around.