Tag: great city

November 30, 2010

Streets for All: Bike and Ped spending up 7% in city’s budget

Streets for All says the city’s budget as approved by the City Council last week includes a seven percent increase in bike and pedestrian master plan spending over 2010. While this is not near the amount the group (or the mayor) was looking for, it is better than it could have been. From Streets for…
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tagged: 2011 budget, city council, great city, streets for all seattle
July 28, 2010

Cycle Tracks and Seattle, Part 3: The Great City presentation

Great streets brownbag View more presentations from tfooq. Great City hosted a so-called “brown bag” discussion (no one brings a brown bag lunch to these things…) about cycle tracks last week. In part three of our series on cycle tracks, inspired by the discussion, we take a look at the presentation slideshow.
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tagged: brown bag, cycle tracks, cycle tracks and seattle, great city, roger geller, slideshow, vehicularists
July 22, 2010

Cycle Tracks and Seattle, Part 1: But the Danes can do it!

The Green Wave in Copenhagen from Copenhagenize on Vimeo. After attending the Great City brown bag this afternoon, I decided Seattle bikers need to take a closer look at cycle tracks and work to better define what we need and what will work best for our city. Cycle tracks may or may not fit those…
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tagged: broadway, buffered bike lanes, copenhagen, cycle tracks, cycle tracks and seattle, dexter, great city, vehicular riding, yesler
July 22, 2010

Bike master plan already out-of-date?

Josh Cohen at Publicola took a look at the city’s Bicycle Master Plan and determined it is too vehicularist and is already sounds out-of-date, even though it is only a few years old: This week, an astute PubliCola reader pointed out that language in the city’s Bicycle Master Plan seems to contradict some of the…
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tagged: bike nerd, brown bag, cycle tracks, great city, publicola, vehicular riding