After the urgings of many bicyclists, the City of Seattle agreed to ask WashDOT to evaulate a Madison Park bike connector in the SR-520 EIS in an October letter to WashDOT. Thank you signers Tim Ceis (Deputy Mayor), Grace Crunican (SDOT Director), and Councilmembers Richard Conlin and Jeanne Godden. Advocates Tom Bertulis, David Levinger, and Dave Hiller were instrumental in making it happen. Awesome!!
On an otherwise gutwrenching Election Day evening, there were some definite bright spots. In the 41st Legislative District, Democrat Brian Weinstein edged out State Senator Jim Horn, who has had an unfortunately narrow, motor-centric world view as transportation as chair of the Senate Transportation Committee in Olympia. Great job on the campaign to all who worked hard to make it so in that largely Republican suburban district. If Democratic Attorney General Chris Gregoire holds her lead to become governor after all the absentee votes are tallied, we can hope to see some modest forward progress on nonmotorized, active transportation in the state in the next two to four years.
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