Civics and Culture

PARK(ing) Day 2014 Will Soon Be Here, So Let’s Make It A Success

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Here They Come

We're headed out to the Valley. I pull up to Martin Luther King Way, across from Franklin. It's a dingy gloom tonight. The dealers...

Sunday Video: Copenhagen Love Bikes

https://vimeo.com/102576638 A video of very patient Copenhagen drivers waiting for cyclists to do their thing before turning right.

Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life

Introduction Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...

Take Another Look

  I see her brighten the bus stop as I pull up. Third and Union southbound, some time before midnight. Hers is a smile which...

Reminder: Vote “FOR” the Seattle Metropolitan Park District

A few weeks ago, we ran a guest article by Michael Maddux in support of Proposition 1--the measure to fully fund park maintenance and...

Thanks Guys

  We won't tell anyone I took it for a test drive. As I pulled my 358 into the layover at Second and Main, I noticed...

Smart Man

  "Next one is Aurora," I announce from the 44 route. "Aurora Avenue, where you can get the E Line. That's the old 358." People get...