Tag: #Fix65th

September 17, 2020

Report: NE 65th Street bike lanes have saved lives and prevented serious injuries

For a four-year period, the short stretch of NE 65th Street between NE Ravenna Blvd and 39th Ave NE killed one person and seriously injured at least one other person every year. But a hard-fought safety project installed in spring 2019 has cut collisions by more than half and has so far eliminated deaths and…
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tagged: #Fix65th, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt, vision zero
April 8, 2019

Community organizes to celebrate NE 65th St bike lanes, shows what’s possible when city builds the bike plan

Unlike the $4.4 million advertising budget and public fanfare celebrating the new SR 99 car tunnel, no official celebration or encouragement campaign was planned for a major new set of protected bike lanes on NE 65th Street. So excited community members decided to plan their own. Dozens of people of all ages got together Sunday…
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tagged: #Fix65th, inga manskopf, jenny durkan, matt white, ne 65th, oralea white, rob johnson
April 5, 2019

Sunday: Community celebration for opening of NE 65th St bike lanes

Details from the event listing: Unlike the new downtown tunnel for cars, we don’t have an expensive ad campaign to encourage people to use the new bike lanes on NE 65th St, so let’s create our own! Bike #Fix65th Sunday, April 7 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Meet at Third Place Books Depart noon and bike…
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tagged: #Fix65th, ne 65th
May 29, 2017

Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part Two)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part series by Andres Salomon looking at NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part One describes the urgent need for safety improvements along the part of 65th where five people have been killed and seriously injured in the past two years. Part Two looks at possible solutions. NE 65th…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt, roosevelt station
May 17, 2017

Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part One)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part One of a two-part series by NE Seattle Greenways leader and former mayoral candidate (“I ran for Mayor before it was cool“) Andres Salomon. In this post, Salomon gives an update on the need for NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part Two will cover potential designs that the city could build…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt
February 22, 2017

NE 65th Street will get autumn quick fixes, bigger remake in 2018-19

After years of community urging and protest, Seattle is about to kick off a road safety project on NE 65th Street to address the street’s serious ongoing safety problems. People walking, biking and inside cars all continue to get seriously injured and killed on the street, which forms a barrier that splits the neighborhood in…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ed murray, inga manskopf, ne 65th, rob johnson, sdot