Nice Seattle photos

Nice Seattle photos

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West Seattle Lower Bridge – Seattle Winter 2010-2011 Opening Day


Image by v8media
Footage: vimeo.com/17112227

Crazy roads, and more importantly, untrained winter drivers out there. If you have to drive, put chains on your car. If you don’t have chains, it’s not important enough to drive anywhere.

I got out to one of the downtown bus stops at about 4:30pm today. The first two buses to show up were packed, so I walked farther downtown so that I could get on. Got a seat on the bus and it then took almost two hours to get past Sears and the Krispy Kreme. Many people were fed up with waiting on the buses and I joined them in walking back to West Seattle. I feel for the people who were stuck in their cars. It was actually kind of fun getting to walk with a huge pack of people back from downtown. The people walking were in generally good spirits and were fairly entertained. I think it ended up taking me 3 hours to get home from one of the last stops downtown to one of the first stops in West Seattle.

Drivers at the West Seattle lower bridge on SW Spokane are routinely spinning their tires very fast thinking it’s going to help them get up the hill. In general, this just melts the snow and ice which makes it even slicker for the next person in line. With chains, you’re fine. Without, you would pretty much have to wait at the bottom until the hill is clear and then get some momentum going and keep constant speed the whole way up. Don’t slow down. Don’t stop.

A couple guys with a 4×4 pickup and chains on all four wheels were charging to haul people up the hill. They’d haul one up, then back down and pull up the next one. Some people who were helping out stuck drivers were angry about this. I do know that they beat the professional towing companies to the lower bridge by a couple hours, and I don’t even think the pros stuck around.

I thought that there were enough interesting things going on that I put on my bike helmet and a helmet liner, put my camera in my backpack, attached my tripod to my backpack, and rode my bike back to the bridge for this shot and some footage.

Stay warm out there.

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View of Bellevue dowtown from Seattle I90 bridge


Image by JPChamberland
Better large on black.
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View of Bellevue city downtown and north of Mercer Island from the bike path on Seattle I90 floating bridge

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Seattle Flickr meetup


Image by Paul David Gibson
Seattle Flickrites gathered at Greenlake for some strobist fun

SANCA, Seattle Metro Rally, Westlake Plaza, Seattle, WA


Image by djwudi
Acrobatics by Seattle’s School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts at a rally to promote the changes to the Seattle Metro bus routes during the two year downtown bus tunnel closure.

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