Tag: neighborhood street fund

November 19, 2019

I guess I need to take back some of the nice things I said about the Neighborhood Street Fund… UPDATED

UPDATE: Be sure to read to the bottom of this post for an update from SDOT. This specific Neighborhood Street Fund project is dead, but the department has not abandoned this intersection, a spokesperson said. Yesterday’s post was supposed to be about a neighbor-led SDOT program focused on investing significantly into ideas generated from the community…
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tagged: 15th ave s, beacon hill, neighborhood street fund, s columbian way
November 18, 2019

15 neighbor-led projects SDOT will build in the next couple years

When voters approved the 2015 Move Seattle Levy, they created a specific fund dedicated to building projects that came from neighbors. The process to get a project completed can be long and somewhat grueling for those to volunteer their time to propose and support them, but it’s pretty cool that the city will invest significantly…
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tagged: neighborhood street fund, sdot
January 31, 2019

Check out these 300+ neighbor-created ideas to improve Seattle streets

Seattle residents and organizations submitted more than 300 specific Neighborhood Street Fund ideas for improving our city’s streets, and now SDOT needs help prioritizing them. You can weigh in online by February 22. The refined list will then go through another round of voting this spring. NSF projects should be in the $100,000 to $1 million…
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tagged: neighborhood street fund
December 1, 2016

Check out Seattle’s 12 winning neighborhood-led transportation ideas

Here’s an item that got swallowed up in the wake of election news: Seattle announced $6.5 million in neighborhood-led transportation projects across the city. The 12 projects were the winners of SDOT’s Neighborhood Street Fund (“NSF”), and are the result of tireless work by neighborhood advocates. Seriously, it takes a lot of volunteer patience and…
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tagged: neighborhood street fund, sdot
July 17, 2014

More details on planned improvements at Rainier and Dearborn

Yesterday, we posted about the city’s planned Neighborhood Street Fund improvements. Among the list of new sidewalks and better street crossings was this item: Dearborn and Rainier is an absolutely terrible intersection, and a big problem spot for a major bike route into downtown. The city already has plans for a neighborhood greenway on Hiawatha,…
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tagged: dearborn st, neighborhood street fund, rainier ave, sdot
July 15, 2014

With focus on safety and access, Neighborhood Street Fund projects inch closer to construction

The city has released an update on the Neighborhood Street Fund projects in the pipe for completion in 2014 and 2015, and the list is full of much-needed sidewalks and improved street crossings. Funded by the Bridging the Gap levy, the NSF projects are community-driven ideas that go through an extensive vetting process both by…
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tagged: bridging the gap, neighborhood street fund, sdot