Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Executive Ron Sims (along with local mega-developer Vulcan and Sound Transit's primary light-rail consultant, Parsons Brinkerhoff) are hosting a photo shoot sponsored by International Sustainable Solutions this Sunday, August 26, at 11 am, to promote a new "commuter toolkit" aimed at "showing the benefits of moving people through our downtown on foot, bicycles, buses, or light rail, rather than in their cars." The shoot will take place between Cherry and Marion Streets on Second Avenue downtown—"the only one-way street in downtown with a bicycle lane, a bus lane and the Space Needle in the background." While the commuter toolkit looks like it illustrates the problem effectively (showing how much space 200 commuters take moving through the city by car, bus, light rail, and bike), I'm a bit hesitant to recommend participating in a photo op hosted by a mayor whose commitment to the city's "Complete Streets" policy has been somewhat questionable. A group of bike-based protesters (last seen protesting the elimination of a bike lane from Stone Way in the Fremont neighborhood at a single business owner's behest) plans to show up to remind the mayor of that very commitment; more information is available here.