{"id":752,"date":"2018-03-28T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2023-02-21T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T03:12:43","slug":"lets-connectseattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/lets-connectseattle.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s #ConnectSeattle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of other people noticed the small section of truly physically protected bike lane south of downtown I recently pointed out on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobAnderton\">my Twitter<\/a>. Even my little Twitter account got 65 &#x2665;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Capture.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Capture.jpg?resize=558%2C882&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Capture.jpg?w=558&amp;ssl=1 558w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Capture.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal, though, this section is still REALLY SCARY. Here&#8217;s the area just south of these Jersey Barriers (and hey, there&#8217;s even a few flex-posts left standing):<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/lets-connectseattle.html\/img_2999-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-758\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-758\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?resize=4032%2C3024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2999.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Twitter post even got a response from Dongho Chang:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/lets-connectseattle.html\/dhc\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-759\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHC.jpg?resize=538%2C83&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHC.jpg?w=538&amp;ssl=1 538w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHC.jpg?resize=300%2C46&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/transportation\/projects-and-programs\/programs\/freight-program\/east-marginal-way-corridor-improvement-project\">linked to&nbsp; hasn&#8217;t been updated since November of 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, here is the fine print:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/lets-connectseattle.html\/no\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-760\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-760\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-.jpg?resize=945%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-.jpg?w=945&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-.jpg?resize=300%2C57&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-.jpg?resize=768%2C146&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not acceptable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlebikeblog.com\/2013\/05\/01\/man-cycling-on-e-marginal-way-killed-in-collision-with-semi-truck\/\">We already had one person killed on this key piece of bicycling infrastructure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s #ConnectSeattle and let&#8217;s do it BEFORE another person dies to motivate actual action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of other people noticed the small section of truly physically protected bike lane south of downtown I recently pointed out on my Twitter. Even my little Twitter account got 65 &#x2665;! Here&#8217;s the deal, though, this section is still REALLY SCARY. Here&#8217;s the area just south of these Jersey Barriers (and hey, there&#8217;s even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}