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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by rlucas on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:33PM (#20782271)
Your last graf implies that there was some nefarious favoritism that gave a turbo boost to Seattle's 2nd Ave bike lane project, due to the connectedness of the woman killed shortly before it took effect.

If you are referring to the well known tragic death of Sher Kung in August 2014, just before the September 2014 scheduled opening of the 2nd Ave bike lane, you are very wrong. The project had been underway long before that.

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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by pnw_hazor on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:53PM (#20784017)
Good point. And, this victim was not a city worker, but a civil rights attorney at a large well-connected law firm.

It sure seemed to me that after her tragic death the call for bike safety was turned up to 11.

We haven't reached that point yet re homeless/junkie assaults. It will take the right person to get killed or raped for that to happen.

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