/1 I had a few minutes before I went live with new director Sam Zimbabwe yesterday to ask him a few more questions about the city's abandonment of bike lanes on the 35th Ave NE project.
Here are his answers, transcribed:
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/3 I asked Zimbabwe what the cancellation means for Seattle's Vision Zero goals and carbon emission reduction goals.
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/5 I asked Zimbabwe about what this decision means for bike lanes planned in other Seattle neighborhoods.
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/6 I asked how this happened (again) and how SDOT will reconcile what led to this point.
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/7 Zimbabwe was confirmed by the Seattle City Council last month and has only been in office about two months. So I asked what his experience dealing with these kinds of issues was in D.C. at
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/8 Because of time limits, I didn't get to ask everything I would have liked or press harder on some of his answers. You can see a bit more of his response on the issue in our Live Q&A:
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And here's some more reporting I've done on this issue:
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Up to yesterday:
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I know that these are important questions for the Seattle-area community, and I'll continue to ask. I read almost all of your feedback on my reporting — the supportive and the critical.
And as always, my inbox is open: mbaruchman@seattletimes.com
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All streets can’t do all things for all people. And the first losers are the vulnerable ones.
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