Tag: paulo nunes-ueno

February 4, 2016

Pronto needs city buyout before end of March, how did we get here?

The hard deadline to save Pronto is March 30. With more than 30,000 people taking 144,000 trips in the first year of operations, supporters and City Councilmembers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how Pronto got into such a dire situation with hardly any warning to the public. Ridership in the first year…
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tagged: city council, holly houser, mike o’brien, nicole freedman, paulo nunes-ueno, pronto emerald city cycle share, puget sound bike share, transportation committee
December 4, 2014

Advocate for safe and active streets picked to head city’s transit division

Paulo Nunes-Ueno was Director of Transportation and Sustainability at Seattle Children’s when the institution wanted to expand its northeast Seattle campus. To help mitigate the traffic impact the larger campus would have on the neighborhood, Nunes-Ueno lead a cutting edge effort to help connect the campus to the nearby neighborhood, transit service and the Burke-Gilman…
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tagged: paulo nunes-ueno, sdot, seattle children’s, transit division
August 6, 2012

Neighborhood greenway promoter draws a line in the planter strip sandbox

With just a simple sand box, Paulo Nunes-Ueno has challenged the city to reimagine the balance between safety and active community life. Nunes-Ueno is the transportation and sustainability director at Seattle Children’s and a promoter of neighborhood greenways. When he and his family moved to a new home in the Wallingford/Green Lake area, he installed…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, paulo nunes-ueno, sandbox, seattle times
July 6, 2011

Speak up for Seattle bicycle funding at CTAC III meeting today – UPDATED

The final meeting for The Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) III will meet July 6 (today!), 3:30 p.m. at City Hall the Seattle Municipal Tower (700 5th Ave) Room 1610. This is your chance to voice your support in person for a larger investment in safe bicycle infrastructure in Seattle as the committee figures out…
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tagged: cathy tuttle, ctac III, neighborhood greenways, paulo nunes-ueno