Tag: dongho chang

July 9, 2015

City and contractor rethinking sudden 2nd Ave bike lane closure

The moment fences went up blocking the 2nd Ave protected bike lane just south of Pike Street, I started getting tweets and emails from baffled people who, rather than having a protected bike lane were detoured mid-block into the general traffic lane: Holy cow @seattledot, that bike lane closure on 2nd Ave is brutal. @seabikeblog…
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tagged: 2nd ave, construction, dongho chang, sdot
February 27, 2015

Rainier is the city’s most dangerous neighborhood street. But it could be the best.

Rainier Avenue will be safer by the end of the year. Every option the city presented (PDF) at a public meeting Thursday evening in Columbia City included a significant redesign of the notoriously dangerous street. And the city is not going to wait long to take action. Some signals and signage changes will roll out…
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tagged: dongho chang, jim curtin, rainier ave, sdot
November 12, 2014

Rainier Ave safety project kicks off, two meetings this week

Rainier Ave has been the scene of far more than its share of death and injury, serving both as the main commercial drag through Rainier Valley and one of the city’s most dangerous streets. There were 1,243 collisions, 630 injuries and two fatalities between January 2011 and September 2014. But the city is no longer…
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tagged: columbia city, dongho chang, rainier ave, rainier beach, rainier valley, sdot
October 9, 2014

After 2 collisions at same 2nd Ave parking garage, city makes changes

After the second person in just one week was injured by a person turning across the 2nd Ave protected bike lane into a parking garage between Pike and Union, the city has made changes to improve visibility. Most early efforts to improve the bike lane focused on the signalized intersections, which makes sense because that…
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tagged: 2nd ave, dongho chang, injuries, king 5, protected bike lanes
October 3, 2014

Police find Tahoe involved in hit and run of 7-year-old + City announces safety project on nearby Rainier Ave

Seattle Police announced Friday that they have found and impounded the red Chevy Tahoe they believe struck and critically injured a seven-year-old girl at MLK and Genesee Tuesday. Now they are on the search to find the person behind the wheel who hit her and chose to flee the scene, leaving the child unresponsive in…
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tagged: dongho chang, mlk way, rainier ave, rainier valley, sdot
June 2, 2014

Business owner sends photos of people crashing on Missing Link, city (finally) finishes temporary bikeway

After five months in a state of partial completion, the city made substantial progress toward completing the temporary Burke-Gilman Missing Link improvements between Shilshole and Fred Meyer Sunday. The two-way bikeway on NW 45th Street is an attempt to increase safety on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road that has resulted in a huge number…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, dongho chang, michael marian, missing link, sdot