Joni Balter at the Seattle Times weighs in:
As previously noted, this song is playing constantly over there. (And apologies for comparing Balter to Carol Channing.)
UPDATE: The logic in this editorial is just so inscrutable that it has to be read to be believed:
If you pose the question to voters, do you prefer a sidewalk in a neighborhood or a police officer downtown, says one wise business leader, the choice just might be public safety.
So increased public safety is a wiser investment than non-car infrastructure. Right? Or maybe not.
Safety advocates also fought to change the configuration on Northeast 125th Street — again more bike space, fewer car lanes and enhanced safety.
Increasingly, cars are being shoved aside, as evidenced by efforts to jack up commercial parking rates, the constant plea for more light rail and significant transfer of asphalt to bike lanes. Had Seattle elected leaders with a better business sense or a more rational view of the affordability or lack of it of living in the city, things might be different. But every new bike lane can make a road less appealing to a car or a truck. Bicycles prevail, freight mobility takes a sorry hike.
Whaaaaa! Safety is inconvenient sometimes! I want to cook dinner with a flamethrower now!
Balter isn’t for public safety or for cars or against bikes so much as she’s apparently allergic to new ideas.
“RASPBERRIES!!!!”
You never need to apologize when it means I can watch Carol Channing committing some act of batshit insanity.
Sure. Let’s just tax oxygen to pay for it!
Dom as usual you are a fucking moron.
Trying to equate public safety as a result of less road lanes is pathetically stupid. Adding congestion increases pollution, noise, and stress for the public. Fast efficient vehicular travel is what the majority of people want. Quit the tired tirade. Until you start proposing bicycle licenses with taxable vehicle tags, and have the bicycling public pay their fair share of bike lane building and/or transforming the current setup, please just go shut the fuck up and quit wasting more oxygen on this earth with your drivel.
@4 bus riders & walkers (who pay sales tax which pays for 2/3 of the road infrastructure) and I (since I pay my car related taxes & sales tax) are sick of paying for your vehicular infrastructure because you keep destroying it with you car…..my bicycle certainly isn’t causing the pot holes, line deterioration & bridge cracks.
I don’t think freight mobility on 125th is going to change much no matter what they do or don’t do there. That’s a friggin’ lame argument.
Beeeeeeetteeer!!! Baaaaa! (How I love when Carol Channing turns into a sheep, and who knew this could be a symbolic prophecy of things that would happen 25 years later!)
@5 is correct. Put all roads projects up to a vote of the citizens and let us decide – you’ll see way more bike paths funded and way fewer Billionaires Tunnels.