Tag: meetings

October 16, 2015

Two chances to guide Seattle’s Trails Upgrade Plan + Check out this crazy trail condition monitoring bike

In recent weeks, workers have been biking a crazy bike outfitted with instruments to measure trail conditions all over the city. The results are just one tool the city will use to craft its Trails Upgrade Plan, which will guide investments in repaving and redesigning Seattle’s great, though sometimes incomplete or deteriorating trail system. For…
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tagged: meetings, sdot, trails upgrade plan
January 6, 2015

Lacking open space, First Hill looks to create space for people in the streets

The First Hill neighborhood is densely packed with jobs, homes and vital city services. But other than Freeway Park, it’s largely lacking in quality public open space where folks can gather or just take a load off. The First Hill Public Realm Action Plan is a bold way to change that, and at relatively low…
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tagged: first hill, first hill public realm action plan, meetings
November 18, 2014

Listen: KUOW on Rainier Ave’s speeding problem + Meeting tonight

Rainier Ave has a serious speeding problem. But, of course, that speeding problem is actually a symptom caused by the street’s dangerous, highway-style design problem. Four lanes of traffic splitting through bustling neighborhood centers and business districts is inherently dangerous. In fact, it’s the most dangerous city-owned street in Seattle. You can help change that…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, kuow, meetings, phyllis porter, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, sdot
October 20, 2014

Final Westlake Bikeway open house is Wednesday + A look at updated plans

The city is just about ready to show off its design for the Westlake Bikeway after many community meetings big and small and more than a year and a half of debates about the plan to provide a safe space for people to travel between South Lake Union and the Fremont Bridge through the giant,…
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tagged: meetings, sdot, westlake, westlake cycle track, westlake design advisory comittee
March 27, 2014

The 39th Ave NE greenway could soon reach NE 90th Street

By most measures, the 39th Ave NE project was the city’s first truly successful experiment with neighborhood greenways. Funded by Seattle Children’s and developed through the hard work of NE Seattle Greenways, the project was the first to include stop signs for cross streets and included a fantastic new connection to the Burke-Gilman Trail. The…
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tagged: 39th Ave NE, meetings, ne seattle greenways, sdot, wedgwood
March 25, 2014

City adding sidewalks, bus islands to Greenwood Ave between 90th and 105th

The city is in the final stages of designing a big upgrade to Greenwood Ave N between N 90th and 105th Streets, a busy street with few sidewalks and inadequate bus stops. Billed as a transit improvements project, most the sidewalk improvements will be on the east side of the street to provide a connected…
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tagged: greenwood, greenwood ave, meetings, sdot, seattle transit blog, transit islands