Tag: ne 65th

September 17, 2020

Report: NE 65th Street bike lanes have saved lives and prevented serious injuries

For a four-year period, the short stretch of NE 65th Street between NE Ravenna Blvd and 39th Ave NE killed one person and seriously injured at least one other person every year. But a hard-fought safety project installed in spring 2019 has cut collisions by more than half and has so far eliminated deaths and…
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tagged: #Fix65th, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt, vision zero
April 8, 2019

Community organizes to celebrate NE 65th St bike lanes, shows what’s possible when city builds the bike plan

Unlike the $4.4 million advertising budget and public fanfare celebrating the new SR 99 car tunnel, no official celebration or encouragement campaign was planned for a major new set of protected bike lanes on NE 65th Street. So excited community members decided to plan their own. Dozens of people of all ages got together Sunday…
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tagged: #Fix65th, inga manskopf, jenny durkan, matt white, ne 65th, oralea white, rob johnson
April 5, 2019

Sunday: Community celebration for opening of NE 65th St bike lanes

Details from the event listing: Unlike the new downtown tunnel for cars, we don’t have an expensive ad campaign to encourage people to use the new bike lanes on NE 65th St, so let’s create our own! Bike #Fix65th Sunday, April 7 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Meet at Third Place Books Depart noon and bike…
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January 19, 2018

A Roosevelt junior redesigned the streets around his high school, and his plan is better than SDOT’s

Just about every school day when Joe Mangan and his fellow Roosevelt High School students walk to area businesses during their lunch breaks, they have to squeeze together on sidewalks so skinny they can barely walk side-by-side and talk to each other. And when they get to major intersections, they have to squish together at…
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tagged: joe mangan, ne 65th, roosevelt high school
December 12, 2017

As NE 65th Street safety changes develop, tell SDOT to keep sidewalks wide and bike lanes protected

NE 65th Street needs a safer design. People keep getting seriously injured and killed on this street, and that won’t stop until something changes. This point has been well established, with neighbors even leading a community memorial and march to protest the dangerous conditions and demand action from the city. Councilmember Rob Johnson, whose District…
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tagged: andres salomon, ne 65th, rob johnson, sdot
May 29, 2017

Salomon: Finally fixing NE 65th Street (Part Two)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Two of a two-part series by Andres Salomon looking at NE 65th Street safety improvements. Part One describes the urgent need for safety improvements along the part of 65th where five people have been killed and seriously injured in the past two years. Part Two looks at possible solutions. NE 65th…
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tagged: #Fix65th, andres salomon, ne 65th, ravenna, roosevelt, roosevelt station