Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'i5'
August 27, 2008
If you walk up or down Pine Street toward downtown, you may have seen a group of people intently watching the dog run over I-5 just to the west of Minor Ave. If you slowed your gait and took a gander yourself, you would have had the shock we did last night of seeing a bunch of goats munching away at the hillside. It was strange enough that we stopped our run to the bus......
Continue Reading "Goats on I-5"July 24, 2008
This is the sixth part of a series that follows the Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic along its route, and explores the history and transformation of the Pacific Northwest through the communities and stops along the way. See here for part 5. After sitting around Centralia College as the heat soared towards ninety while David re-hydrated, we headed back to the car and hit I-5 for one of our last stops along the......
Continue Reading "Seattle to Portland: The "Uncle Sam" Billboard"May 21, 2008
Exactly one month ago, Seattlest told you about the fastest speeder ever clocked on I-5 at a whopping 164 mph. The driver of the speeding motorcycle, Ben Howard Kelly, was arrested on I-5, but claimed he had digital camera footage of his record-setting and law-breaking ride. Seattlest commenter Romulus led the cry for video proof of the incident saying, "He taped himself doing it. The people demand YouTubage!" Well, dear commenter, you ask and you......
Continue Reading "The People Demand YouTube Proof and We Provide"May 9, 2008
Not the Bicyclist(s) in Question--Photo Courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Contributor Josh Larios As a driver, we admit we've cursed our bicycle brethren more than once and occasionally blamed them for things far beyond their two-wheeled control. That being said, we've never blamed cyclists for interstate or highway traffic, but after an incident on I-5 yesterday, that may change. A bicyclist caused a big traffic snafu on I-5 after he pedaled down the HOV lane and......
Continue Reading "Bicyclist "Headed to Louisiana" Snarls Traffic on I-5"April 24, 2008
Writing news for Seattlest, we spend a lot of time feeling slightly befuddled by local news headlines. Last night's perusal of headlines offered us this gem: "Semi road rage leads to big mess on I-5." We read it as a case of mild road rage, somehow causing a traffic jam. A sentence into the story, we realized our error. In reality, the driver of a semi truck suffered a case of road rage when......
Continue Reading "Another Easily Misread Headline "April 21, 2008
Another great shot by a Seattlest Flickr Contributor faust0matic A motorcyclist was arrested on Sunday outside of Eugene on charges of reckless driving. Ben Howard Kelley was clocked at going 164 mph on I-5. It is the top speed a trooper has ever verified for a speeder on I-5. Kelley was arrested wearing a helmet, one law he didn't break, but we imagine that wouldn't help much if you crashed at 164 mph.......
Continue Reading "Fastest Speeder Ever Caught on I-5"April 9, 2008
A bird's-eye view of I-5 from the Seattlest Flickr Pool, thanks to subactive photos Usually, when traffic is dawdling on I-5 at 30 m.p.h., we're longing for the arterial: same speed, fewer Seattle drivers. But starting next year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) may be intentionally slowing down drivers on I-5 in hopes that it will ease traffic. The $25 million dollar project will focus on a six-mile stretch of I-5 where......
Continue Reading "An Intentional Slow-Down on I-5 "January 29, 2008
"I5 looking south" by futileboy We humbly suggest a subtitle for this jigsaw-puzzle shot: The Kingdom of Amazonia. Have you joined the Seattlest Flickr pool yet?......
Continue Reading "Seattlest Pix: 08Jan29"August 14, 2006
We found out about the Bettie Page house on I-5 from Metblogs, mere hours before we first saw it for ourselves. We could've just linked to the photo Metblogger Josh pointed out, but we figured, why not see if we can get a snapshot ourselves? If you'd like your own eyeful, look east when you're on I-5 close to the northbound exit to 65th. We admire how the painter turned the roofline into faux......
Continue Reading "Where I-5 Becomes Peekaboo Street"