Tag: active transportation plan

September 16, 2022

Help WSDOT’s Active Transportation Plan defeat a bunch of highway plans to win a national award

Can a Washington State plan centered around walking, biking and accessibility defeat a bunch of highway and bridge projects to win the 2022 America’s Transportation Award? Well, it can with your help. Remember those annoying “people’s choice” competitions that were everywhere like a decade ago where you had to vote every day in order to…
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tagged: 2022 America’s Transportation Awards, aashto, active transportation plan, wsdot, wsdot active transportation division
July 25, 2022

Washington’s streets continue to fail kids like Mikey Weilert

Michael Weilert stopped, pushed the button to make the crosswalk lights start blinking, waited to see that cars were stopping, then rode his bike across busy Pacific Avenue S in Parkland last Tuesday. But even though other people had stopped their cars at the clearly marked crosswalk, a 27-year-old woman drove a Jeep straight through…
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tagged: active transportation plan, deaths, michael weilert, parkland, smart growth america, wsdot