Tag: move seattle

October 19, 2015

The Times is wrong. A megaproject won’t fix our traffic, we need Move Seattle

The Seattle Times Editorial Board put all their backing behind Bertha and the SR 99 deep bore tunnel highway, a multibillion-dollar, cars-only underground toll road that bypasses downtown Seattle — our state’s biggest employment center. They are not worthy of your trust when it comes to transportation projects. So when the Times says to vote…
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tagged: move seattle, move seattle levy, seattle times editorial board
October 5, 2015

Last day to register online to vote for Move Seattle

We have to pass Move Seattle. Not only would it make powerful investments in the bike network, safe streets and efficient transit, but it would also prevent devastating cuts to our growing city’s transportation system. But it can only pass if supporters are registered to vote. So pass this link around to everyone you know…
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tagged: move seattle, move seattle levy
September 8, 2015

Let’s pass Move Seattle to build ‘communities where all families thrive’

“Last year, the citizens of this city stepped up to fund the largest bus system expansion in history,” Mayor Ed Murray said to press, flanked by safe streets, business, labor and social justice leaders Tuesday. But putting more buses on our existing traffic-clogged and deteriorating roads isn’t enough. “We’re asking for this plan to make…
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tagged: brian fairbrother, move seattle, move seattle levy, puget sound sage, rebecca saldana, ref lindmark
September 7, 2015

Party to kickoff the Move Seattle campaign Tuesday + Mayor will speak at bridge where Fairbrother died in 2011

Flanked by business, transportation and social justice leaders Tuesday, Mayor Ed Murray will mark the official kickoff of the Let’s Move Seattle campaign to pass Prop 1. The 10 a.m. press event will be held next to the Fairview Ave timber-supported bridge connecting South Lake Union and Eastlake (unless you are on foot, you may…
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tagged: brian fairbrother, ed murray, fairview ave n, move seattle, move seattle levy
September 4, 2015

Toward Zero: Honoring the 150 people killed or badly injured in Seattle traffic since Sher Kung

A crowd gathered on the steps of the Garden of Remembrance downtown Friday listened to 150 bell rings, one for every person seriously injured or killed in Seattle traffic in just one year. They also heard ten names, all people who were killed in traffic in the same year. “We are honoring today — not…
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tagged: bob anderton, cascade bicycle club, cathy tuttle, move seattle, move seattle levy, seattle neighborhood greenways, sher kung, vision zero
August 24, 2015

One year after Kung was killed, join a vigil and call for Vision Zero Friday

Traffic injuries and deaths are preventable, and we have the cure. We’ve already planned Seattle’s safe streets upgrades corridor-by-corridor and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. The city’s traffic engineers have studied proven best practices from in town and around the world. The city is essentially holding the traffic violence vaccine in its hands, but we’re still scared to take…
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tagged: 2nd ave, cascade bicycle club, memorial rides, memorial walks, move seattle, move seattle levy, sher kung