Tag: neighborhood greenways
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Beacon Hill trail is a big neighborhood greenway improvement
The Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway was one of the city’s first attempts at creating a great community-led neighborhood greenway, and it just got a lot better. This route was already one of my favorite neighborhood greenways in the city, connecting from the I-90 Trail to Georgetown via Beacon Hill Station and Jefferson Park. But as…
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Work on north-south Ballard neighborhood greenway gets underway
The city is starting construction on a long north-south neighborhood greenway in Ballard connecting Whitman Middle School to the Ballard business district. As we reported earlier this year, this will be the first time two neighborhood greenways intersect. So in a way, it’s the beginning of an actual network of people-focused streets. One neighborhood greenway…
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Salomon: Why construction can’t just close a neighborhood greenway without a safe detour
EDITOR’S NOTE: Andres is a family-biking father dedicated to safe streets. He’s the leader of NE Seattle Greenways and sometimes contributes to Seattle Bike Blog. I encountered this closure the other day on a ride with several people, including Madi Carlson and her two kids, who were riding a tandem with a trail-a-bike on the…
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Score a Safe Routes to School mini grant + Take the city’s neighborhood greenways survey
Got an idea for a project that could encourage more kids to bike or walk to your neighborhood school? Whether the school is private or public, the city wants to help make it happen with grants of up to $1,000. Maybe you and some other parents want to start a walking school bus or bike…
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In 2017, central and south Seattle could be covered in neighborhood greenways
As we reported yesterday, Seattle’s neighborhood greenways are attracting a whole lot of people on bikes. One route in Ballard even led to an 805 percent increase in people biking on the street in just the first year of operation. And the city is just getting started. After a couple years trying to figure out…
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Do neighborhood greenways increase cycling? Oh yes.
If you were wondering whether the city’s investments in neighborhood greenways are effective, here’s your answer: A resounding yes. The city wisely gathered bike use data on a couple proposed neighborhood greenway routes before work began. They then compared those numbers with bike counts after the street got the neighborhood greenway treatment, and the result…
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