Every day I go through the same gantlet of Seattle traffic, spending about three hours in my car for a 100-mile round trip. Teaching parkour and acrobatics in youth enrichment programs throughout King County gives me great joy and gets young bodies moving, but I have to drive because I haul 500 pounds of equipment with me.
The Seattle Squeeze has traffic moving at a snail’s pace as the city reacts to the rapid growth of the past decade, and
53 percent of all carbon emissions in our city is generated by cars and trucks. ...