Tag: one center city

October 17, 2018

Seattle wants your ‘big ideas’ for downtown streets and public spaces (again), open house Thursday

The Center City Mobility Plan One Center City Imagine Downtown Imagine Greater Downtown inter-agency partnership is hosting an open house Thursday (tomorrow!) to gather your “big ideas for great public places and lively streets in the heart of Seattle.” I know, I know, didn’t we just do this, like, two years ago? And didn’t that…
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tagged: imagine greater downtown, one center city
March 20, 2018

Don’t delay the downtown bike network

Downtown Seattle is facing a massive transportation challenge when buses are kicked out the transit tunnel in 2019. That is not long from now, and the City of Seattle and our region’s transportation agencies need to be taking action right now to keep everyone moving. Light rail service to Northgate begins in 2021, which will…
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tagged: basic bike network, cascade bicycle club, downtown, one center city, seattle neighborhood greenways
September 18, 2017

New downtown vision includes 4th Ave bike lanes, new transit pathway on 6th Ave

After months of talks, agency leaders have a near-term plan for downtown streets that both builds a two-way protected bike lane on 4th Ave and creates a transit pathway to keep buses moving once they are kicked out of the transit tunnel next year. The plan as presented to the Once Center City Advisory Group…
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tagged: 4th ave, downtown, international district, one center city
March 6, 2017

After a butane truck crash on I-5 snarls traffic, the Times Ed Board blames … bike lanes?

It seemed every couple minutes, someone at KUOW radio would break into the news broadcast to let people know of another major traffic problem in the Seattle area. It was February 27, and a truck carrying butane had crashed on southbound I-5 downtown. The very hazardous payload forced brave emergency crews to close both directions of…
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tagged: brier dudley, one center city, seattle times, seattle times editorial board
February 16, 2017

How One Center City can finally build the vital Pike/Pine bike connection

Pike/Pine is one of the most needed and promising connections in the entire Seattle bike network. And the multi-agency One Center City partnership is looking to make major near-term changes along the corridor between Pike Place Market and Broadway that include protected bike lanes. We already wrote about the One Center City ideas for north-south…
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tagged: capitol hill, downtown, one center city, pike/pine
January 30, 2017

The One Center City plan includes some bold ideas, but fails to prioritize safety

The One Center City partnership released a set of “near-term strategies” for a major redesign of downtown streets Thursday that would increase bus capacity, could increase car capacity, and neither commits to building a connected network of safe bike lanes nor prioritizes safety for people walking (by far the fastest-growing mode downtown). Aside from the…
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tagged: 4th ave, 5th ave, basic bike network, center city bike network, center city mobility plan, downtown, one center city