Capitol Hill's Car Free Day Gets Dumped On

Yesterday morning we were biking up to Volunteer Park on sunny 14th Avenue when we saw what seemed like the aftermath of a huge accident: three tow trucks busy with cars, a motorcycle cop, cops in new, unmarked muscle cars, cops in new, marked muscle cars. A little farther down the street, we ran across a Cascade Bicycle Club tent, and our foggy memory kicked in. Ah, Car Free Day. Each block of 14th had a lone tent occupant: the Bicycle Club, Parks & Rec, someone with a stretch of astroturf and bocce balls. Two or three people walked by. It was post-apocalyptic. Then it started to rain, and rained for the rest of the day. The weather was just punctuation--whatever Car Free Day was supposed to be, this one wasn't going to be any fun.

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By MvB in News on August 25, 2008 9:45 AM

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Troy Morris

FUCK@!

Because of the lack of "pro" anti-car streets (I'm a fan, I think this is fun) publicity, I just accidentally sat through Ken Shram's idiotic mind vomit against this.

BTW, Ken Shram, you're an old, nasty, perverted looking idiot.

Troy Morris

It's true. I did suggest an article on the whole thing a few weeks ago. Let's show the City that we can thrive without cars. That's what they're testing. If we want good transit, we gotta pretend like we already have it.

jseattle

Note to Alki and every other community lined up for Car Free Day Returns, Car Free Day Lives and Car Free Day Reloaded -- take these turkeys up on their offer and get involved. And don't assume that just because you haven't heard from the organizers that they have everything set and planned out. Call them and make sure they've got their shit covered. None of the Hill's major community groups were properly involved in the car free day plan up here -- and we paid the price.

Matt G1

(sigh) I knew it would be no NY car-free street day, but that's just sad.

I still have hope for the Alki one - it's pretty lively even with cars (assuming it doesn't rain).