Tag: Beacon BIKES

July 10, 2012

The Beacon Hill neighborhood greenway is almost here

The route of the pending 2.8-mile neighborhood greenway from the I-90 Trail to Jefferson Park is already one of my favorite biking routes in the city. But the city plans to make some key improvements to the route that could dramatically change the way the neighborhood gets around. And yes, there will be stop signs…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, events, neighborhood greenways
May 21, 2012

Tuesday: Ride with SBAB for a SE Seattle bikeability tour

Southeast Seattle desperately needs ambitious, family-friendly biking and walking routes. Tomorrow, you are invited to join the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board and a slew of other biking and neighborhood organizations for a two-hour biking tour from the Mountains-to-Sound Trail to Brighton to Beacon Hill. Rainier Valley is possibly the best candidate for a neighborhood greenway…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, events, othello, rainier valley, sbab
November 11, 2011

Beacon BIKES and SDOT line neighborhood greenway route with trees

Beacon Hill’s first neighborhood greenway is getting pieced together. SDOT has installed many of the wayfinding signs and will soon be installing sharrows along the route. And this week, SDOT’s Urban Forestry crews installed 70 trees along 18th Ave from the Mountains-to-Sound Trial to S Stevens Street. Homeowners were given their choice of tree, which…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, neighborhood greenways, sdot, urban forestry
October 10, 2011

Beacon Hill’s neighborhood greenways starting to grow

Beacon BIKES has been hard at work since the release of their Family Bicycle and Pedestrian Circulation Plan this summer. SDOT has installed signage for one of the plan’s proposed neighborhood greenways on 17th and 18th Avenues S, according to Beacon Hill Blog. A neighborhood and family focus As we noted in our previous story…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, neighborhood greenways, sally bagshaw, videos
August 12, 2011

Weekend Guide: PhinneyWood Summer Streets + Beacon Hill family bike ride

The PhinneyWood Summer Streets festival takes over 17 blocks of Greenwood Ave today (August 12). This is one of the larger Summer Streets fests in the city, so be sure to stop by. From SDOT: Walk. Bike. Shop. Play. Breathe. On Friday, August 12 Greenwood Avenue/Phinney Avenue from N 87th Street to N 67th Street…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, events, greenwood, phinney ridge, spokespeople, summer streets
July 11, 2011

Times: Group leaders make case for neighborhood greenways

Community leaders from neighborhoods all around Seattle see CTAC III as their shot to fund Seattle’s budding neighborhood greenway movement (see our previous series). As the committee decides whether to pursue an $80 vehicle license fee ballot measure, Cathy Tuttle, Dylan Ahearn and Michael Snyder (from Spokespeople, Beacon BIKES and Ballard Greenways, respectively) penned a…
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tagged: Ballard greenways, Beacon BIKES, neighborhood greenways, seattle times, spokespeople