Tag: beacon hill

October 7, 2013

Parks Board will consider bikes-in-parks policy change, hear about neighborhood greenways

Volunteers with a dream of doing environmental rehab work and building a mountain bike park in Cheasty Greenspace will get the chance to earn the support of the Board of Park Commissioners. The meeting is 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kenneth R. Bounds Park Board Room at 100 Dexter Ave. N. Beacon Bike Park (longer…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, parks and recreation
July 23, 2013

Bike Master Plan Draft 2: Sodo, Beacon Hill and Southeast Seattle

The last day to comment on the second draft of the Bicycle Master Plan is Friday. Email your comments to [email protected]. Southeast Seattle During review of the first draft of the Bike Master Plan, we said this: While changes to Rainier would certainly be the most controversial project in southeast Seattle, it also has the…
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tagged: 2013 bike master plan update, beacon hill, rainier valley, sodo
April 22, 2013

Cheasty Trail and Bike Park project boosters call for support at levy meeting

There have been a lot of ups and downs in the past year for the Cheasty Greenspace Trails & Bike Park project (AKA Beacon Bike Park). With plans to mobilize huge numbers of volunteers to restore a section of Cheasty Greenspace, tucked between Beacon Hill and Rainier Valley. The park has few safe and easy…
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tagged: beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, mountain biking, rainier valley
March 26, 2013

With greenway work (slowly) coming together, Beacon BIKES kicks off spring action

As the city works to very slowly piece together the elements of Beacon Hill’s first neighborhood greenway stretching from the I-90 Trail to Georgetown, Beacon BIKES is holding it’s first meeting of the year to talk about waling and biking initiatives on Beacon Hill. So if you live on Beacon Hill and are not yet…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill
January 31, 2013

Bike Master Plan: NE and SE Seattle

This is the fifth post in a series analyzing Seattle’s draft Bicycle Master Plan update. The deadline to comment on the draft map is today (January 31). This post will focus on the Northeast and Southeast neighborhoods. Northeast Seattle Northeast Seattle, which for the sake of this post is anything east of Aurora and north of…
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tagged: 2012 bicycle master plan update, Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, northeast seattle, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, south seattle, wallingford
September 27, 2012

Mayor announces 3 Safe Routes to School projects as part of 2013-14 budget

Mayor McGinn announced three significant Safe Routes to School projects during a press event Wednesday as part of his ongoing 2013-14 city budget proposal roll-out. In doing so, he also stressed the importance not only of road safety, but the effect a safe route to school can have on the health of Seattle’s young people.…
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tagged: 2013 budget, beacon hill, mike mcginn, safe routes to school