Tag: pedestrians
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Aurora Ave traffic fatality is 10th in less than two years
Last night, 5 days after SDOT announced that it had installed two speed-display signs on either side of the Aurora bridge, a pedestrian was hit and killed on the Queen Anne side of Aurora Avenue N by someone driving. The Seattle Times reports that as of last night SPD did not have any information to…
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Proposed Signal Policy Could Mean More Long Waits At Intersections
The Seattle Department of Transportation has finalized a traffic signals policy intended primarily to improve mobility for people walking and rolling at intersections. This policy comes out of a process that the agency convened with a group called the Policy and Operations Advisory Group, which consists of members of the different modal advisory boards, the…
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After Mercer Island road changes scrapped, another teen is hit by car
Ira Appleman ran for the Mercer Island City Council with his opposition to changes to Island Crest Way as the key to his campaign. He lost. The council originally voted to go ahead with the controversial road changes, which would have changed the four-lane road into one in each direction and a turn lane. Then,…
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