Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
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I really do think that people are taking their lives in their hands when biking around this city of ours. Greenways are great - but don't entirely solve the problem.
-Non-biker
It's cheerful news, but like any survey, from the info given in the link, this appears to be a snapshot in time so if you say yes to walking or biking once in a school year, that's counted. No discussion of frequency per week over the school year.
Having done the whole walking school bus thing with the little ones, once crappy weather hits, it's often me and my very grumpy child walking to school. Eventually we gave in and carpooled too. Too many hills on our route to bike and was never successful at the end of the school day to get a tired kid to push the bike home without a lot of fussing. We biked or walked the bikes on the sidewalks, never on the road.
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cyclist mom