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The Wasps

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They buzz, they flit, they fly. They dart, they dash, they zip.

Ethan Stowell putt-putts from Union (downtown) to Tavolata (Belltown) to Wolf (Queen Anne). Corino Bonjrada bounces from La Vita e Bella (Belltown) to Mondello (Magnolia). Jim Drohman shuttles between Le Pichet (Belltown/Market) to Café Presse (First Hill/Madison). Scott Staples hops from Zoë (Belltown) to Quinn's (Capitol Hill). Josef Jimenez doesn't ride himself but sends his cooks on a scooter--a Honda, not a Vespa--from Harvest Vine (Madison Valley) to Txori (Belltown).

Hey, parking's tough in Belltown, but there's always room for a scooter.

They are Seattle's wasps, those Vespas. Truly: vespa means wasp in Italian.

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By Ronald in , on December 13, 2007 2:31 PM

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  • ronaldholden

    Let me just add that the NYTimes has a blog entry today that extols scooters.

  • ronaldholden

    Ah, the dreaded Taiwanese motorbike, not nearly as benign as the lazy wasp.



    It's apparently illegal to park a licensed motorized vehicle on the sidewalk in Seattle. That doesn't stop many of the chefs, though. Most of the bikes in the picture are sitting on sidewalks.

  • brappy

    Now, my question is, why do people park them in the street here? They take up a lot of space and seriously interrupt parking for cars. When I lived in Taiwan, where they have the world's largest per-capita ownership of scooters/vespas, they just parked them (and rode them!) on the sidewalk, (such as this or this)

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