Tag: complete streets

March 30, 2011

Final Linden Ave N open house April 6

The 2011 paving season continues with the final Linden Ave N complete streets project open house next week. The project would create a two-way cycle track on Linden Ave N that would connect the Interurban Trail to Seattle’s north border and the start of Shoreline’s stretch of the Interurban.
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tagged: 2011 paving, complete streets, cycle tracks, linden, sdot
March 29, 2011

NE 55th project in Ravenna includes bike lanes, curb bulbs

Work to repave and reconfigure NE 55th St near Ravenna Park is scheduled to begin April 4. The project will add curb bulbs and bike lanes to the large, strange intersection of NE 55th, NE 54th, Ravenna Pl NE, Ravenna Ave NE and NE 22nd. The project will also add bio-retention areas to help with…
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tagged: 2011 paving, bike lanes, bio-retention, burke-gilman, complete streets, curb bulbs, ne 55th st, ravenna, ravenna blvd, ravenna park, sdot
March 4, 2011

Still not convinced of the benefits of complete streets?

SDOT published a post on their blog with great before and after shots of the redesigned intersection at 15th Ave S and S Lander St. Sited a block from the light rail station, the intersection’s former design can be seen in many places around our city. Wide curb-to-curb distances force people walking to stay in…
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tagged: 15th ave s, 2011 legislature, beacon hill, complete streets, HB 1071, HB 1700, sdot
February 21, 2011

Bike incident press from Bizarro World … I mean the Netherlands

Streetsfilms posted this video, which clearly leaked through a dimension split of some kind. It comes from a parallel universe where a moment of reckless driving that almost seriously injures some cyclists spurs public outrage and a series of angry opinions from the local media condemning the potentially harmful act. The driver’s license is suspended,…
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tagged: complete streets, netherlands, safety, videos
February 17, 2011

Better road design standards bill passes House Transportation Committee

Publicola reports that HB 1700, a bill that would ease state road design standards to give communities more tools for designing bicycle and pedestrian-friendly roads, has passed out of the House Transportation Committee. The bill is one of many being lead by freshman Representative Joe Fitzgibbon. Engineering guidelines by the Association of State Highway and…
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tagged: 2011 legislature, aashto, complete streets, HB 1700, joe fitzgibbon, nacto
February 3, 2011

Two complete streets bills in Olympia this year

Complete streets are easier to cross on foot. They are safer for biking. They also reduce the number of car crashes, especially the rate of injury-causing higher speed wrecks. Basically, complete streets are about creating streets designed for people. Two bills in Olympia this year, HB 1700 and HB 1071, would ease the creation of…
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tagged: 2011 legislature, andy billig, cascade bicycle club, complete streets, HB 1071, HB 1700, joe fitzgibbon, marko liias, mike armstrong