Ditch Seattle traffic with a waterslide?

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Ditch Seattle traffic with a waterslide?</h1>
                <h2><p>Commuters — you could get a refreshing break. A Utah outfit says that in July (no specific date given so far) it will bring Seattle a new way to get through downtown Seattle : a waterslide. SeattlePI.com reports that Seattle will be one of more than 150 cities to host “Slide</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashli-blow/">Ashli Blow</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Commuters — you could get a refreshing break. A Utah outfit says that in July (no specific date given so far) it will bring Seattle a new way to get through downtown Seattle : a waterslide. <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Huge-waterslide-coming-to-Seattle-6035553.php?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">SeattlePI.com reports</a> that Seattle will be one of more than 150 cities to host “Slide the City.” The company brings its 1,000-plus-foot vinyl waterslide, live music, food and drinks to cities across the United States. “We spend so much time walking, running or driving around our cities,” a news release said. “But how many times have you been able to say you slid down your city streets?” Get your sun tan lotion, but don't book your schedule too tightly around traveling the slide. The San Jose Mercury News <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/sal-pizarro/ci_27380108/pizarro-giant-water-slide-event-planned-san-jose?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">notes</a> that plans for a waterslide event in Los Angeles last fall came undone after protests over wasting water. With any luck, we won't have drought issues. — C.R.</p>
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Commuters — you could get a refreshing break. A Utah outfit says that in July (no specific date given so far) it will bring Seattle a new way to get through downtown Seattle : a waterslide. SeattlePI.com reports that Seattle will be one of more than 150 cities to host “Slide the City.” The company brings its 1,000-plus-foot vinyl waterslide, live music, food and drinks to cities across the United States. “We spend so much time walking, running or driving around our cities,” a news release said. “But how many times have you been able to say you slid down your city streets?” Get your sun tan lotion, but don't book your schedule too tightly around traveling the slide. The San Jose Mercury News notes that plans for a waterslide event in Los Angeles last fall came undone after protests over wasting water. With any luck, we won't have drought issues. — C.R.

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal