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Seattle bike lanes get a dedicated street sweeper, and you get to name it
The new protected bike lane sweeper in action along Sand Point Way NE. (Photo courtesy of SDOT)
The Seattle Department of Transportation is looking for public input to name (yes, again) a new piece of machinery.
This time, the naming contest is for a new protected bike lane sweeper, which SDOT says is “a mini version of our street sweepers.”
The list of names have been narrowed down to 16 finalists, which will be down to four on Thursday, and just the top two next Monday.
As should be expected for the naming of anything local, one suggestion is a play on Sir Mix-a-Lot (Sir Sweeps-a-Lot), and there’s of course a variation of “Boaty McBoatface,” in this case “Sweepy McSweepface.”
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Let’s just say, hypothetically, that you built a giant concrete wall around your home, blocking multiple lanes of traffic and sidewalks and a bike lane. And then, after admiring it for about a year, you decided that you’d like to have it removed, please. What would it cost to hire someone to take it away? Just a hair over fourteen thousand dollars, apparently, according to documents released by the Seattle Department of Transportation in response.