Tag: capitol hill

January 10, 2017

Don’t stop the Broadway streetcar and bikeway now

Today, the First Hill Streetcar and Broadway Bikeway end unceremoniously at Denny Way just before reaching the North Broadway business district. People biking are forced to choose between merging into mixed traffic on the busy commercial street, trying to navigate using side streets with poor business access and poor crossings at busy streets like John/Olive,…
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tagged: broadway, broadway bikeway, broadway streetcar extension, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, first hill streetcar
December 29, 2016

Convention Center expansion should help build major bike network crossroads

Much of the talk about public benefits from the planned Washington State Convention Center expansion has been focused on the very exciting idea of building a lid over more of I-5 connecting downtown to Capitol Hill and First Hill. The Lid I-5 campaign hopes to get the full cost of a technical feasibility study paid…
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tagged: capitol hill, downtown, first hill, i-5, lid i-5, pike/pine, WA State Convention Center
September 30, 2016

Neighbors will host memorial walk Sunday for man killed walking across Capitol Hill street

Max Richards was killed while walking his dog across busy Belmont Ave E at Bellevue Pl E September 21, and his death has shaken neighbors. Capitol Hill Seattle reports that 79-year-old Richards and his dog Pink were crossing when a woman in her 40s struck him: As the 79-year-old and his dog walked across Belmont…
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tagged: belmont ave, capitol hill, central seattle greenways, kshama sawant, max richards
March 17, 2016

U Link opening is the perfect chance to show Seattle why they bought Pronto

Now that the city owns Pronto (or will very soon, anyway), the people of Seattle need to understand why they bought it. Well, Saturday, big crowds are expected to turn out at Capitol Hill and UW Stations for the long-awaited opening of the U-Link light rail extension. You could hardly find a better time to…
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tagged: capitol hill, james wing, pronto emerald city cycle share, prontolyzer, sound transit, u district, university link, uw
March 7, 2016

Reopened street near Capitol Hill Station improves access to Broadway Bikeway

The north end of the Broadway Bikeway just became infinitely more useful as construction crews finally reopened Denny Way between Broadway, 10th Ave and Cal Anderson Park. Closed for years to build Capitol Hill Station, this section of Denny Way opens a vital low-traffic bike route connecting Broadway and the western part of the neighborhood…
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tagged: broadway bikeway, capitol hill, capitol hill station, denny way, sound transit
January 13, 2016

Most Broadway Bikeway ‘smurf turds’ replaced with standard posts

After years of damage from parallel parkers and taggers, the blue sculptures that lined the Broadway Bikeway in Capitol Hill have been removed, Capitol Hill Seattle reports. They will remain in place on First Hill, at least for now. I, for one, really liked the Broadway Bikeway’s smurf turds, a name they were given almost…
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tagged: ansel herz, broadway, broadway bikeway, caludia fitch, capitol hill, capitol hill seattle, smurf turds