Tag: downtown

September 9, 2015

Banning turns-on-red is an exciting first step to taking back our crosswalks

We’ve all been there. You get the walk signal and step off the curb. But the person driving keeps inching towards you. You try to make eye contact, but they are looking left for a break in traffic, still inching forward. They don’t even know you are in front of their grill. Will they see…
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tagged: downtown, kuow, right turns on red, sdot, vision zero
September 2, 2015

SPD officer responding to call strikes man biking downtown

Yet again more evidence for need for separated bike paths. 3rd/pine. pic.twitter.com/5j5rxWxp5h — Marley Blonsky (@MarleyBlonsky) September 1, 2015 A Seattle Police officer driving a cruiser was responding to a high-priority call Monday evening when she collided with someone biking at 3rd and Pine. The man was transported to the hospital, but SPD said his…
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tagged: 3rd ave, downtown, pine, spd
August 11, 2015

Chatting with Q13 about downtown’s traffic violence emergency

Q13 News invited me on their morning news show today to talk about traffic violence downtown, which I described a few weeks ago as “a public health emergency we haven’t been treating.” We also talked about SW Admiral Way, where the city is currently working to make safety improvements and add bike lanes (here’s our…
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tagged: downtown, q13, sw admiral way, vision zero
July 28, 2015

King 5: Seattle should follow Vancouver’s lead on downtown bike network

King 5’s Chris Daniels recently reported from our neighbor to the north on something Vancouver, BC, has to help people get around their downtown: A comfortable and protected network of bike lanes. As Seattle finally kicks off work on a network of protected bike lanes downtown, it’s wise to look to Vancouver to get a…
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tagged: chris daniels, downtown, king 5, vancouver
July 23, 2015

Downtown traffic violence is a public health emergency we haven’t been treating

It’s not news that downtown streets are the scene of a huge number of serious traffic injuries and deaths. But this map at a recent open house still caught me completely off-guard. At first, I thought it was a map of the past ten years. How awful, so many lives ended or dramatically altered. Then…
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tagged: center city bike lane network, downtown, protected bike lanes
July 20, 2015

City kicks off development of downtown bike lane network, open house Tuesday

It’s really happening. Seattle is developing a connected network of bike lanes to and through the city center. This means connections to Uptown and Queen Anne, to South Lake Union, to Capitol Hill, to First Hill, to the International District, to Pioneer Square, to the I-90 Trail, to the Alaskan Way Trail and West Seattle,…
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tagged: center city bike network, downtown, protected bike lanes