I am writing to declare my opposition to the proposed up-zone of NC-30 properties along California Avenue.
For over 10 years I have been an active participant in the community definitions and Neighborhood Design Standards for the Admiral Urban Village.
I am fortunate to live in Seattle, a fairly civil city, where motorists treat bicyclists with some respect - not a lot - but some.
Every time an editor writes that we cyclists need training and that money spent by the city on making cycling safer is somehow short-changing the motorist and pedestrian, I wonder if we are making progress toward becoming a completely civil city. An argument based on false assumptions does not make for a very sound argument, as I am sure, the editor knows. If this was a zero sum game of who gets attention, the argument might fly, but it is not.
South Park Bridge is a regional priority
By Dow Constantine
After working for months to ensure that replacement funding for the South Park Bridge was included in the recent Roads and Transit package, I was disappointed to see Proposition 1 fail at the ballot box. It is clear that replacing this critical transportation link will require a regional effort.
Where now to find funds to replace the South Park Bridge?
The South Park Bridge is a crumbling relic nearing the end of its life.
A complicated and uncomfortable alliance of environmental groups, big business, and government has unified in an effort to clean up the polluted, 5-mile stretch of the Lower Duwamish River, or rather, its hazardous soil beneath.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls, known as PCBs, and other toxic waste that has settled into the river's soil is targeted for removal, due, in part, to the "remedial investigation" coordinated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Lower Duwamish Waterway Group.
After six years in the making, the remedial investigation was finally reveale
The Seattle Department of Transportation is trying to figure out where new trees should be placed in medians along a stretch of Southwest Admiral Way to address sight-distance issues raised by the community.
The medians were replaced as part of a $4.6 million project that repaved Admiral Way between 41st Avenue Southwest and Southwest Olga Street (by Admiral Viewpoint Park) this past summer.
A new city park is taking shape at the corner of Southwest Alaska Street and 48th Avenue Southwest.
There's going to be a play area for little kids in the northern part of the park with swings for toddlers. Next to that will be a paved plaza with game tables, benches and trash cans. An open lawn will be south of the plaza with a sand box tucked next to the plaza.
The Pro Parks levy approved by voters in 2000 provided money to buy the property. King County and the state of Washington also contributed.
Longfellow Creek overflowed its banks in the Youngstown neighborhood during recent heavy rains and thousands of gallons of creek water flooded the parking lot at All Star Fitness and poured across Andover Street into the Nucor Steel plant. Water in the plant was about 3 feet deep.
Fortunately the rain stopped, the flood receded and All Star Fitness was open again the next day, Dec.4.
Nucor Steel also got lucky.
WEST SEATTLE HIGH TRAVEL CLUB. Pictured are four of 58 students headed for Italy and Greece during a 10-day spring break trip sponsored by the West Seattle High School Travel Club. They are, front left, Jensen Purdue, a junior, front right, Zachary Burden, a junior. Pictured, rear left, Ethan Williamson, a senior, and rear right is Emily Allen, a junior. As "student travelers" through the club, they are expected to fundraise to help pay some trip expenses.
West Seattle High School students are "working their way" to Italy and Greece for a 10-day spring break trip.
Fifty-eight sophomores, juniors, and seniors enrolled in the school's Travel Club that requires them to fundraise to meet the trip's $2700 per-person price tag. The trip takes place March 27 to April 5.
While parents of some students can afford to simply write a check for the full amount, all students will raise money to help those who would otherwise not have the funds for a trip.
Coaches Russ Neal and Wendy Neely, for Decatur and Thomas Jefferson, respectively, have different kinds of talent on their teams this year.
Raw and ready.
TJ has the 'raw,' and Decatur has the 'ready.'
It's easy to see as 1,2,3...or, in simpler terms, the Gators beat the Raiders, 142-87, and, that was without the Gators having their top swimmer competing in races that happened at the Weyerhaueser King County Aquatic Center pool in a South Puget Sound League North dual meet Thursday.
"We have a couple good ones, Tommy Cunningham and Robert Sobus," sai
