Profile

Dick Falkenbury is fifty-six years old and has lived in Seattle for most of his life and all of his adult years. He attended Bryant Elementary, Eckstein Jr High and Roosevelt High. He graduated in 1971 and went on to earn a Bachelor degree from Western Washington State University.

Dick served on the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Sand Point (Magnuson Park), where his most notable service was saving the bathhouses from being razed; they are still in use.

Dick worked as a volunteer on the Citizen's Committee for the Bike Trail (Burke Gilman). He may have been a lowly foot-soldier in this campaign, it was a great accomplishment when the trail opened. He also served on the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee in the late-eighties and early nineties. Dick represented those bike riders that owned no spandex.

In 1995, Falkenbury began the first monorail petition drive that failed to secure the necessary signatures.

In 1996, Falkenbury tried again and this time, he and many others like Tamara Belland, Kevin Orme and especially Grant Cogswell collected 18,000 signatures--while spending only $2,500.

In 1996, the Seattle voters approved the first of four monorail measures.

Dick Falkenbury served as a volunteer on the Board of the Monorail Project; never missing a single meeting in all six years.

Unfortunately, leadership at the top of the staff, for reasons unexplained, gold-plated the entire project and it was defeated in the fifth and final vote put before the people.

Falkenbury has been a driver for the past twenty years. He is currently driving for a retirement community where he also resides.

He lives in the Queen Anne neighborhood with his dog, Claire.