Nickels announces 'car-free' Sundays

This fat, worthless, Democrat Mayor this City has is absolutely ruining what us left of our City. I am so damn tired of having government tell me what I should be doing. I am not going to ilve forever. I could care less what the future of the earth is - and have no desire to, nor will I ever promote these dreamt up environmental schemes they are coming up with. I will continue to dump my car oil into storm drains, use the most toxic chemicals I can find, and use plastic bags to help get my fires going. So they want to charge me $.20/bag? Wow... what a hit to my pocket book. I will still get double and triple bags... and ensure that I throw them out on the road and use them for fire starters. This fat slob Nikels needs to get a life... just like the rest of you worthless hippies that buy into this BS "end of the earth as we know it." Go do something for yourself and don't expect everything be handed to you.

wow, cameron. i hope you don't have kids.

i'll say let's go a step further and turn downtown between pike place market and pacific place into a pedestrian zone, closing off the streets to (non-local) traffic. this is highly successful in places from korea to germany.

sure would make working and going downtown a lot more pleasurable.

but then again, we'd have to have a decent transit...

Wow, Kameron I feel sorry for you, you must lead a very lonley selfish life.

I do not consider myself a "Hippie", but I live by the motto, just because I can doesn't mean I should. I have considerably reduced how much I use my car by taking the bus or motorcycling to work and recycle as much as possible. This has been my personal choice, and others should be allowed to make the decision whether or not to do this for themselves, not the government.

I also do not believe the Mayor leads by example, maybe he should work on that first before he starts dictating to others....

Kameron, you are a pretty sorry person, though I agree that most of these things should be personal choice, (I have chosen to do without a car, though I'm about the furthest thing from a hippie) and that the government is over regulating us to death. Seattle is one of the highest--taxed and regulated cities in America, and it's becoming a ridiculous situation for sure.

Holz, you don't seem to have lived her long. For several years, one city block--the one that divides the south end of Westlake Mall from the plaza across the street--was closed to cars. But Nordstrom balked and money talked, as per usual, this is the true agenda of city government. Don't look for any downtown city streets to be closed again.

As to our mayor, he's overfocusing on environmental issues and underfocusing on just about everything else. Oh yeah, except for choking the life out of the city with his stifling and idiotic anti-nightlife campaign.

When thhe yuppies move into neighborhoods like Belltown and Capitol Hill, they know full well what the lifestyle there is: nightclubs, smokers on the street, and vibrant and noisy street life. But what happens when they move in? The start crying like babies and insist it all be stopped.

If you don't like it, stay in your sleepy and quiet bedroom communities.

Nickels can't be ousted soon enough.

thank you .

I live at Alki and I have to question his choice to be car free at Alki. Has the Mayor been to Alki on a Sunday from 11a - 6p? I think all it will do is increase the congestion on California Ave and Admiral Way as people attempt to navigate without traveling on Alki & Harbor Avenue. It's a crazy idea. How about free buses for those days or some other option. This one is going to be a nightmare.

I for one think it is riddiculous that the mayor decided to close streets down to cars to promote the "green" movement. We as taxpayers paid for the roads, dont tell me when I can use them. Like a previous post states, it will only cause more traffic on other roads. This is the biggest waste of an idea without a real reason to do it. What good will it do to close a street for a few hours anyway? All it will do is cause unneccesary traffic problems, so people can walk in the street. Do it right if your going to do it, and have a block party, at least have a real reason to close down public streets. This city is going down the toilet as long as Mayor Nickels is in office.

I love it when people like Kameron make up outrageous remarks just to see the response. And if they're not made up, I hope everything dumped down the drain backs up in his/her apartment/home. Like it or not, we ALL live downstream.

Yet ANOTHER reason why I am glad that I do not live in Seattle (or KIng County). Nickles is just another liberal who thinks he knows better than most (after all he is "enlightened"). Bring on the Nanny state!