On the Street: KL Shannon interviews youth advocate, community leader, and bike rider Dawn Bennett
- Aug. 28, 2020
KL Shannon: Tell me about your first experience with a bike or who got you interested in riding a bike.
Dawn Bennett: My first experience riding a bike was when I was little in Youngstown, Ohio. There were eight of us (siblings). We all had bicycles because our mom wanted to make sure that we were busy. She got us little red tricycles (my bike was so cute). We …
Story and photo by Loren Schwartz (Stay Healthy Alki Point)
The change resulting from making Alki Point/Beach Drive a Stay Healthy Street was immediate and transformative.
At once, it made the street safe and inclusive. Prior to the Stay Healthy Street designation, Beach Drive was a route fairly exclusively designed for motorists. It seems planners hadn't anticipated the amount or type of traffic and behavior that these streets and parks …