The 76-year-old South Park Bridge on 14th Avenue South-one of two King County steel-deck truss bridges-remains a concern, according to the recently published 2006 King County Annual Bridge Report.
A recent inspection found that while it is safe, the South Park Bridge is reaching the end of its useful life.
Van strikes man at airport
Aug. 19-Two passenger islands in the Sea-Tac International Airport parking garage were shut down temporarily after an 82-year-old man was struck by a shuttle van.
The man, who received cuts on his head, was treated at Valley Medical Center.
Port of Seattle Police and the King County Sheriff's Office were investigating the cause of the accident.
Compiled by Ralph Nichols
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Girls soccer: Highline at Evergreen, 6 p.m.; Tyee at Mount Rainier, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 6
Girls soccer: Kennedy at Lindbergh, 6 p.m.; Granite Falls at Foster, 7 p.m.; Mount Rainier at Kentridge, 7:30 p.m.
Volleyball: Evergreen Lutheran at Shoreline Christian, 5:45 p.m.; Highline at Evergreen, Kennedy at Lindbergh, Tyee at Mount Rainier, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 7
For them, that is. At the Ballard skateboard park, skateboarder is Brendon Mekola of Ballard
Photographer Steve Shay took this photo about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. He shot the eclipse of the moon through the "Immigrant Tree" sculpture in Bergen Park in downtown Ballard.
The late afternoon is when rowing classes take place on Green Lake. Rowers in boats of various sizes take their turns on the water.
This 108' boat at Fisherman's Terminal has "Free Ballard" painted on the wheelhouse which refers to the fact Ballard should have remained an independent city and not have joined Seattle 100 years ago. The longliner "Blue Ballard" will fish in Dutch Harbor, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, for two months with a crew of 18, then return to Ballard.
We suppose we should be politically correct and laud the arrival of "sharrows," but we think they are an expensive waste of time and tax dollars.
"Sharrows" are those things you can see painted on several streets around the city.
Schools are failing to educate our youth
By Mathew Manweller
Thomas Jefferson was blunt when he talked about the role of education in a free society.
He said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Because Americans, in general, accept Jefferson's admonition, we invest considerable time, effort, and money in our system of public education.
On our city streets, bicycles pedaled by human power and weighing a few pounds must maneuver among speeding cars, trucks and buses, so the city has introduced lane markings called sharrows, reminding drivers to share the streets with bikes.
The sharrows (shared lane pavement arrows) are indicated by a bike symbol and two directional arrows on the streets.
"Sharrows do not change the rules of the road for cyclists or drivers.
