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I'm not entirely certain, but I believe the building under development is not a condo but an office building. And I think it's the building that google will be moving a bunch of people into over the next year.

I'm not entirely certain, but I believe the building under development is not a condo but an office building. And I think it's the building that google will be moving a bunch of people into over the next year.

simple solution, when it gets done and has it's grand opening we chain off their parking lot, and maybe the front door.

repeatedly.

with a big fucking chain.
that's been pissed on.
by a dirty hobo.
with syphilis.

[Also posted on the Cascade forums]

In my opinion, there is a gap in Seattle bike advocacy that needs to be filled. We've got groups like Cascade who are willing to be the reasonable party, filing lawsuits, writing letters to the editor and the mayor, etc. But what we really need is the direct action group.

Critical Mass is sort of a direct action group, but they don't respond quickly enough, because they are (deliberately) unorganized. As soon as we started hearing about the backtrack on Stone Way, or the extra year of closure of the Burke, someone should have been organizing something. If it were me (and no, I'm not volunteering), I'd pick a Friday 4:30-5:30, plus a weekend day, say 1-2pm. Then look for 100 volunteers to continually ride a loop in Fremont. Say, north on the bridge, up Fremont Ave to Fremont Way, under Aurora, up Bridge, down Stone to 34th, across the bridge, then loop around and start over.

Everyone obeys the law. No more than 2 abreast. Take the lane. Go as slow as is reasonable. The object is to let people know bikes are in Fremont, and they're not happy. Everyone has a sign on their bike: "Mayor Nickels Greenhouse Gas Plan: More cars, fewer bikes." "Suzie Burke's plan for Fremont: close the Burke-Gilman for another year." etc. I don't care if they're 100% accurate. This is the unreasonable crowd. Include a URL or phone number, or both on the signs.

Same thing for Lake Forest Park. There should be mini-masses going up and down Bothell Way every Wednesday rush hour until they come to their senses: "Lake Forest Park City Council wants to close the Burke-Gilman Trail and move all bike traffic to Bothell Way".

You can probably think of other variants: ride back and forth on the roads the construction traffic will be using to access the Fremont Burke-Gilman site. Do the same thing in cars with a sign: "One more car for Suzie Burke." "Mayor Nickels' Bike Master Plan: trade my bike for this car". etc. The point is we need 'unreasonable' people (the demonstrators) to drive groups like the Fremont Neighborhood Association and the Mayor to talk to the 'reasonable' people (Cascade, etc.). As soon as a neighborhood like Fremont hears about plans like Ms. Burke's, they should realize that this is going to bring down some direct action on them, unless they do something quick.

why not take CM up stone way, around 45th, and down say roosevelt?

why not take CM up stone way, around 45th, and down say roosevelt?

There's nothing wrong with adding in CM when it rides, or, hell, Cascade rides or yarn rides or whatever. But I'm saying there needs to be a group that's willing to act quickly, deliberately, and repeatedly where the need arises.

Finally, I think you'd need to be deliberate and focused. The choke points in Fremont need to be hit repeatedly: Fremont Ave, the Bridge, Stone Way. Likewise for Lake Forest Park: Bothell Way (and Ballinger, but that may be too dangerous). Going to Roosevelt doesn't hit Fremont (and Suzie Burke) where it hurts.

decision makers, gang-land style.

Jebus, you watch too many movies!

i am in, in, in, in, IN for this kind of approach.

so, we got an organizer?

Wait - is our Seattle Times friend interested in a bit more than just the midnight race? Can we get slide in more viewpoints on both the Burke closure and Stone Way disappearing bike lane? Let's go mafia-style, let's go CM, let's go two-by-two legal with signs, and let's go press. If one or all of them work, then we get our lane and the damn trail back and can get back to boozing.

I am also in.

The woman speaks truth. Tell me when and where to make signs and ride with them, and I will be there.

So let's say some sort of shadowy underground advocacy group gets sick of the political process all together. If some of the leading advocates of Bad Ideas (Fucking Suzy Burke, et al) get a hand delivered fertilizer bomb to their carport and those struggling failing-business model Industrial buildings get a few Molotovs on their asphalt roofs... Would the opposition wither up and blow away? I'm not talking sitting in trees or blockading whaling ships, I'm talking about taking out the actual decision makers, gang-land style.

Langston, we know you're impotent and that makes you mad, but please stop projecting your frustrations onto the efforts of others!

kthx!

disenfranchisement is a bitch, it's true. You know I'm going to end up as some rambling toothless hippie/hermit squatting in National Forest land, sending in handwritten manifests to the local paper, one day.

disenfranchisement is a bitch, it's true. You know I'm going to end up as some rambling toothless hippie/hermit squatting in National Forest land, sending in handwritten manifests to the local paper, one day.

hey trev, what do you think? ;)