Tag: jenny durkan

June 14, 2019

Seattle’s latest bike plan takes one step forward, one step back and continues neglecting South Seattle

SDOT and Mayor Jenny Durkan yesterday released the city’s first “annual” short-term bike plan in 26 months. That the plan itself was delayed well over a year is a good symbol for how SDOT and Mayor have been treating bicycle improvements since she took office. But it is here now. And though the contents are…
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tagged: 2019 bike plan, bike master plan, jenny durkan
June 11, 2019

Days after SDOT acknowledged safety concerns on new 35th Ave NE, a collision critically injured someone on a motorcycle

Someone driving a pickup truck collided with someone on a motorcycle at the intersection of 35th Ave NE and NE 75th Street Monday evening. The person on the motorcycle was critically injured and was rushed to the hospital in life-threatening condition. We send our best wishes to the person injured. I’m in tears right now.…
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tagged: 35th Ave NE, jenny durkan, ne 75th st
May 17, 2019

With the paint barely dry on bike-lane-free 35th Ave NE, person driving strikes and injures someone on a bike

Just hours after a video of dangerous conditions for people biking on the new 35th Ave NE gained a lot of traction on social media, someone driving struck and injured a person biking on the street near the intersection with NE 70th Street. News about the injury was posted to the Safe 35th Ave NE…
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tagged: 35th Ave NE, jenny durkan
May 14, 2019

‘Extreme disappointment’: Bike Advisory Board letter seeks big improvements to Mayor’s bike plan

The same week the Move Seattle Levy Oversight Committee wrote a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan, the City Council and SDOT calling foul on the mayor’s “disproportionately large” bike plan cuts, the volunteer Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board penned a similar letter “expressing our extreme disappointment” with the draft short term bike plan. But unlike the…
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tagged: jenny durkan, seattle bicycle advisory board
May 13, 2019

Oversight Committee raises flag on mayor’s ‘disproportionately large’ bike plan cuts

The committee tasked with watchdogging the city’s delivery of the $930 million voters approved through the 2015 Move Seattle levy has written a strong letter of concern about the lack of bicycle network progress and SDOT’s big cuts to the bike plan for the duration of the levy. “We respectfully request the Mayor and City…
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tagged: jenny durkan, move seattle, move seattle levy oversight committee, seattle bicycle advisory board
April 22, 2019

West Seattle community group responds to bike plan cuts + Cascade, SNG outline their priorities

Neighborhoods all over Seattle have been hit hard by Mayor Jenny Durkan’s proposed bike plan cuts. And as is depressingly typical, West Seattle got hit especially hard. They already had lackluster improvements in the previous version of the bike plan, but the latest version cuts the remaining big improvements, like vital Fauntleroy Way and Roxbury…
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tagged: bicycle master plan, fauntleroy way, jenny durkan, west seattle, west seattle bike connections