Results tagged “ericacbarnett”

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.

• Jobs are difficult to find, but not so scarce that P-I staffers aren't feeling free to turn down Hearst's online operations job offers. "Bottom line: An online-only P-I is not a done deal. At least not yet," says Publicola's Sandeep Kaushik.
• Southlake reports on a man shot in the butt, and Queen Anne View has a kickass firefighter who won a stair-climbing competition.
• Over at Schmudget (caution: policy wonkstrosity ahead), they're talking about sub-prime lending in Washington state all week long. Today, their angle has to do with the depressing racial disparity in the mortgage market. Best of all, the post includes an infographic!

"Why is that green thing in the street?" Little Miss Seattlest asked us recently. "It's for bicycles," we replied. But we'd have been mystified (putting green? guerrilla ad?) if we hadn't read Erica C. Barnett's lament about how they weren't working. Today's "Getting There" column in the P-I repeats our daughter's question. "They signal to turning motorists that bicyclists might be in the bike lane," explains Eric Widstrand, Seattle's traffic operations manager. Of course, a signal only works if people actually understand it, and even Widstrand admits people don't know what the mats are for. Next on the city's honey-do list: Install signs to explain. Brilliant! You're driving, you're confused by the weird green thing in the street, you search for a handy explanatory sign, you figure it out, and you rear-end the FedEx truck in front of you because you've been looking everywhere but where you're going for the last 30 seconds. Even if we hadn't just read Traffic, we'd have to question exactly how a sign is going to clarify anything.