The Seattle Municipal League has announced the recipients of its 2009 Civic Awards, and People’s Waterfront Coalition crusader Cary Moon—the woman who presciently called for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a surface/transit alternative way back in 2004—is the organization’s Citizen of the Year. Winners of other Muni League awards this year include Force 10 Hoops, LLC (owner of the Seattle Storm), Sound Transit CEO Joni Earl, and landscape architect and environmental activist Brice Maryman. Congratulations to all.
I’m shocked they didn’t name Bill or Melinda Gates for getting the express tunnel from the Gates Foundation and EMP/SFM to Boeing Field built, with only one downtown exit at the stadiums.
After all, that will have a sizeable impact on our global warming emissions and will get all the glowing reviews in The New Yorker and other magazines.
It’s “The Municipal League of King County” – quit saying Seattle! Regional, county-wide, diverse representation.
Excellent group of winners. Buy tickets and find all of the 2009 awardees at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55791 or munileague.org
Is she the cutest winner? ‘Cause, RoWWrr! I’m just sayin’.
and she got shut out by gregoire & nickels. so much for the best, most sustainable ideas.
Nickels and Earl won for bringing light rail back. I say give the Sierra Club the award for making sure it didn’t come porked down with 184 miles of new highway lanes. Their opposition to roads and transit and then support for light rail alone was the real regional success story.
And Cary deserves all the credit she gets. Unfortunately, Gregoire is bringing us a replay of roads and transit. No money for transit unless we spend billions for a tunneled highway. A big mistake.
@3 for teh win.
Will, why don’t you and Charles start your own, “I’m Crazy for Girls!” website so I can not check it ever.
@3, 6
And once again Slog commenters reduce a woman to sex object. Shameful. I *thought* it, but I wasn’t gonna say it!
Congrats to Cary. This is only a small token of the praise she deserves.
I like her face. But she’d be cuter with a decent haircut.
Tens of thousands of King County commuters respectfully disagree with the Muni League’s choice.
Who takes the Municipal League seriously?
@8 Heaven forbid somebody should find a successful intelligent woman sexually appealing. It certainly beats the Stormfront trolls, the bicyclist/motorist culture war, the pitbull debate, the latest spelling mistake and the people who thought Ms. Matisse’s column was boring.
@7 – cause ECB already did. Won’t let the domain registration expire, either.
Congrats to Maryman. Between Open Space 2100 and the Parks Levy, he’s worked hard to make a good future for Seattle.
I love her work! I wish she would run for mayor or something.
Please, let the Urban Design Cult die already.
@3 she’s definitely cuter than me. So happy for Cary! ECB, thanks for the kind words.
The people of West Seattle would of been screwed over by this idea. I did not hear of a plan to bring much more bus service to West Seattle or even to bring light rail over there. In order to do this plan King County Metro would have had to provide 4 rapid ride bus lines to West Seattle consisting of 30-35 buses each. I did not hear this plan in the surface street/ transit alt.
All of the lines would Originate from some determined location in downtown and all of the lines would likely run down 3rd avenue and then turn down Columbia street to connect to First Avenue where they would all run to South Spokane Street to get on the West Seattle Bridge. The buses then would get off at their respected exits to go along their route in West Seattle.
Once they get to West Seattle Here is my suggestion:
The rapid lines would run on Alki (bus would get off on the Alki Exit of the West Seattle Bridge) and then over to Beach Drive SW that would end just south of the ferry terminal, the second one would go on California Ave Southwest (Bus would get off on the Admiral way exit part from the West Seattle Bridge) from Southwest Admiral Way to Southwest Thistle Street it would then meet up to 35th Ave Southwest and go to Southwest Roxbury Street where it would terminate on 35th Ave Southwest, the third would go from (Bus would get off the bridge from either the Fauntleroy Way Southwest exit part of the West Seattle Bridge or the Southwest Avalon Way exit of the West Seattle Bridge) 35th Avenue Southwest and it would end up somewhere by Marine View Dr Southwest and the very Southwest corner of West Seattle, and finally (bus would get of on the Delridge Way exit of The West Seattle Bridge) the fourth would go along Delridge Way Southwest all the way to Southwest Roxbury Street.
Oh and I forgot all of the current routes would remain in place. This would be additional bus service. So West Seattle would have at lest 120 additonal buses dedicated to that corridor (Downtown to West Seattle) on top of the regular bus service already provided.
Cary knows her issues well and is passionate in advocating them. She is gregarious and charming as well. She also happens to be quite physically attractive.
So yea, Cary Moon is hawt!
P.S. She seems quite the natural politician, it would be a shame and waste of talent if she didn’t decide to run for public office some day.