Tag: jenny durkan

November 29, 2018

2018’s one millionth Fremont Bridge bike trip is about to cross, smashing the record

Whoever bikes across the Fremont Bridge as number 1,582 today will tip the 2018 bike counter into seven digits, clobbering all previous records by a wide margin. Bike trips across the iconic bridge, which forms a pinch point for many north and northwest Seattle regional bike routes, have been smashing monthly bike records ever since…
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tagged: bike share, fremont, fremont bridge, jenny durkan
November 28, 2018

After mediation fails, 35th Ave NE bike lanes head to Mayor Durkan’s desk

Remember the $10,000 of bicycle safety funds Councilmember Rob Johnson and Mayor Jenny Durkan spent on a confidential mediation effort to see if there was any way for bike lane opponents and supporters to agree on a plan for the street? That didn’t really work. The result of those meetings is a new street design…
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tagged: 35th Ave NE, bicycle master plan, jenny durkan, rob johnson
October 25, 2018

In a return to its 1907 roots, UPS will deliver by cargo bike in downtown Seattle

111 years ago, UPS began making deliveries by foot and bike out of Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Today, the company is returning to bikes, at least for some downtown deliveries. The global delivery giant announced the pilot today along with Mayor Jenny Durkan. “As Seattle grows and public and private megaprojects limit capacity on our downtown…
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tagged: jenny durkan, ups
October 24, 2018

Seattle’s new program will more quickly scrape the wreckage of people’s lives off our streets

Two stories have been floating around in my head in the past 24 hours, the cognitive dissonance so deafening it’s hard to think about anything else. One is the news that Mayor Jenny Durkan has purchased five trucks and funded a program to more quickly respond to and clear the scenes of traffic collisions. The…
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tagged: incident response team, jenny durkan, owen pickford, sdot
September 25, 2018

Mayor Durkan’s budget boosts curb cuts, but eliminates open streets and pavement-to-parks

Streets are not just for transportation, they are also places where city life happens. But Mayor Jenny Durkan’s proposed budget apparently doesn’t see them that way, because it eliminates the city’s modest open streets and pavement-to-parks budgets. But the budget is not all bad news. It does include significant increases in sidewalk repair and new…
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tagged: ciclovia, jenny durkan, pavement to parks, summer parkways
September 18, 2018

Confidential mediation is no way to govern public decisions like 35th Ave NE bike lanes – UPDATED

SDOT and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Office (UPDATE 9/20: and Councilmember Rob Johnson’s Office) has convened a confidential mediation session between a handful of people who support and oppose bike lanes at part of the city’s under-construction 35th Ave NE repaving project. Seattle Bike Blog has been working for a while to learn details about these…
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tagged: 35th Ave NE, erica barnett, jenny durkan, Neighborhoods For Smart Streets PAC, sdot