Tag: complete streets

February 1, 2011

Overcoming the fear of bicycling

Unless you are reading this post on your smart phone while riding down the Burke-Gilman (please don’t do that), you should probably be more afraid of the chair you are sitting in than your bicycle. If bicycling has such clearly demonstrated health benefits, why is fear the biggest deterrent to widespread use? This is the…
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tagged: complete streets, danger, elly blue, health, safety in numbers
November 22, 2010

(VIDEO) When you design roads so people can go 80 …

… people will want to go 80. And if you force them to go 55, they will get angry: (The video is from 2007, but I thought it was really interesting. h/t VeloBusDriver)
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tagged: complete streets, mike mcginn, road diets, road tailoring, sdot, strong towns, video
September 30, 2010

Should city cyclists feel bad about bike funding in the mayor’s budget?

Super short answer: No. I have heard (and felt) some uneasiness about the inclusion of so-called alternative transportation funding in the mayor’s proposed budget, which slashes just about every department in the city. Bike Intelligencer posted an interesting reflection after attending the first budget hearing the other night, saying, “With everyone else hurting, we cannot…
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tagged: 2011 budget, complete streets
September 28, 2010

Attend the budget meetings to support complete streets

The Bicycle Alliance of Washington urges you to show up to the city’s budget hearings and voice your support for complete streets projects. Why? Because these vital projects need funding, and funding is getting cut all over.
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tagged: 2011 budget, bicycle alliance of washington, complete streets, seattle
September 27, 2010

Why complete streets make sense in a balanced city budget

A lot of city services will be hit pretty hard if Mayor McGinn’s proposed budget goes through. Among the hardest hit are neighborhood centers, community centers in richer areas, smaller libraries and employees in nearly all departments. But the mayor mentioned complete street approaches as part of maintaining the budget from many angles and stood…
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tagged: 2011 budget, complete streets, mike mcginn
September 16, 2010

No, SDOT does not need more 125th studies

Let’s make this clear, yet again. NE 125th carries a little over 16,000 cars per day. SDOT’s experience and research clearly shows that the proposed three-lane configuration can carry up to 25,000 vehicles per day. They have done similar projects on similar streets a couple dozen times in recent decades. No further study is necessary.…
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tagged: complete streets, mike mcginn, ne 125th, road diets, town hall