Tag: Franz Loewenherz

February 21, 2024

Investigation fully rejects all ethics allegations against Bike Bellevue staffer

Not only did the City of Bellevue’s investigation find no ethics violations, but their full report (PDF) shows that the work of Mobility Planning and Solutions Manager Franz Loewenherz and the outreach process for Bike Bellevue were remarkably squeaky clean and professional. Ryan Packer at The Urbanist received the report after making a public records…
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tagged: bellevue, bike bellevue, Franz Loewenherz
February 12, 2024

Urbanist: Bike Bellevue effort paused due to ethics complaint involving Seattle Bike Blog? – UPDATED

There I was, fresh coffee in hand, reading through my morning news when I saw my own site mentioned in a story by Ryan Packer at The Urbanist regarding an ethics complaint against the City of Bellevue’s friendly and hard-working Mobility Planning and Solutions Manager Franz Loewenherz. Surely this must be some kind of mistake,…
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tagged: bellevue, bike bellevue, Franz Loewenherz
June 2, 2017

Using machine learning to predict traffic collisions in Bellevue (and how you can help)

The City of Bellevue, the UW and Microsoft just launched a fascinating machine-learning effort to analyze traffic danger and identify collision locations and conditions before they happen. But they need your help marking-up segments of video to identify people walking, biking and driving so the Video Analytics Towards Vision Zero program can better determine the…
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tagged: bellevue, Franz Loewenherz, microsoft, uw, video analytics towards vision zero, vision zero bellevue
February 27, 2017

Bellevue officially approves funding to start ‘rapid implementation’ bike plan

Amid all the other giant issues on the November ballot, it may have been easy to miss the news that the people of Bellevue approved a transportation measure that includes funding to kickstart a renewed effort to get their bike network plans back on track. The city’s “Bicycle Rapid Implementation Plan” is based on Bellevue’s…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club, Franz Loewenherz, vicky clarke
September 3, 2015

Vision Zero Bellevue? The Eastside city is crafting a plan + Take this wikimap survey

Bellevue is trying to identify and prioritize biking and walking safety needs, and they are reaching out for your help. The Pedestrian & Bicycle Implementation Initiative (“PBII”) has launched a wikimap survey, which lets you go pretty in-depth in reporting challenges to safe cycling or walking in the city. You just drop a point on…
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tagged: bellevue, bellevue pedestrian & bicycle implementation initiative, Franz Loewenherz, vision zero bellevue