Tag: rainier valley greenways

September 23, 2015

Check out Rainier Valley north-south greenway details tonight

Plans for the city’s most ambitious neighborhood greenway are getting close to completion, and they’re really something. You can check them out and give the city feedback at an open house from 6–7 p.m. tonight at the Hillman City Collaboratory (map). The plans are definitely not perfect, but this is also one of the biggest…
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tagged: columbia city, I-90 trail, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, sdot, shirley savel
August 4, 2015

Right now, crews are making big fixes to Seattle’s most dangerous street

In an attempt to stop the flow of people from Rainier Ave to the emergency room, crews are finally out redesigning Seattle’s most dangerous street to be calmer, more efficient and more intuitive for everyone. The changes were announced last week at a packed (and swelteringly hot) community open house (see this South Seattle Emerald…
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tagged: bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, ed murray, rainier ave, rainier valley greenways, road safety corridor
July 30, 2015

Want safe streets in Rainier Valley? Get to this meeting tonight

There have been more than 60 collisions on Rainier Ave since May 20, when a group of neighbors held an afternoon of protests calling for a safer Rainier Valley for everyone. So far this year, the street is keeping its normal pace of one collision every day. Sometimes people involved get away with just property…
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tagged: josh feit, mlk way, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, seattle met
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
November 18, 2014

Listen: KUOW on Rainier Ave’s speeding problem + Meeting tonight

Rainier Ave has a serious speeding problem. But, of course, that speeding problem is actually a symptom caused by the street’s dangerous, highway-style design problem. Four lanes of traffic splitting through bustling neighborhood centers and business districts is inherently dangerous. In fact, it’s the most dangerous city-owned street in Seattle. You can help change that…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, kuow, meetings, phyllis porter, rainier ave, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, sdot