Tag: rainier ave

May 21, 2015

Harrell at Rainier Ave safety protest: We’re gonna take our street back

Business leaders, community leaders, residents, safe streets advocates, Councilmember Bruce Harrell and Zeytuna Edo’s family gathered in Columbia City Wednesday to protest dangerous conditions on Rainier Ave and pressure the city to take action to make the street safer. “What I have in back of me is basically a freeway,” Councilmember Bruce Harrell told the…
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tagged: bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, columbia city, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways
May 19, 2015

Neighbors will protest outsized Rainier Ave danger Wednesday

Every day that passes without action, there’s another collision on Rainier Ave. Often, people are lucky enough to walk away with an auto body bill. But sometimes, people’s lives are changed forever by a serious injury. And once every year, someone is killed. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Neighbors have had enough,…
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tagged: bruce harrell, columbia city, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, seattle neighborhood greenways
April 1, 2015

Mt Baker intersection redesign could revolutionize transportation in South Seattle

The intersection of Rainier Ave and MLK Way is big, dangerous and works poorly for everyone. Running next to a high school, a light rail station and a growing number of other destinations, the city and neighborhood have been studying solutions for at least 15 years. Well, the city’s latest plan will be different, according…
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tagged: accessible mt baker, mlk way, mt baker, rainier ave, sdot
February 27, 2015

Rainier is the city’s most dangerous neighborhood street. But it could be the best.

Rainier Avenue will be safer by the end of the year. Every option the city presented (PDF) at a public meeting Thursday evening in Columbia City included a significant redesign of the notoriously dangerous street. And the city is not going to wait long to take action. Some signals and signage changes will roll out…
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tagged: dongho chang, jim curtin, rainier ave, sdot
February 25, 2015

We need a safer Rainier Ave now. Meetings Thursday and Tuesday

Rainier Ave is Seattle’s most dangerous neighborhood street. There’s a collision every day. Somebody is injured in a traffic collision every two days. And it has been this way for a long time. The injury rate is so high in part because the speeding rate is so high. In fact, more than half of all…
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tagged: brighton, columbia city, hillman city, othello, rainier ave, rainier beach, rainier valley, road safety corridor, sdot
February 3, 2015

Woman struck while crossing Rainier: ‘I have never been so scared and alone’

Here’s a very important story that got buried by all the Super Bowl frenzy: A woman who was struck while walking across Rainier Ave January 23 spoke to King 5 recently about what it has been like to recover physically and get through the trauma of being struck in a crosswalk by someone in a…
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tagged: myurie ausler, rainier ave, rainier valley