Tag: rainier valley

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
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
June 2, 2015

After years of public process, Cheasty Greenspace trails plan gets green light

After a years long, sometimes heated public process, the Seattle Parks Board voted unanimously to move forward with a pilot set of soft surface biking and walking trails in the hilly Cheasty Greenspace natural area between Rainier Vista and Beacon Hill. The Parks Board of Commissioners (a volunteer advisory board that the Parks Dept. takes…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, rainier valley
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
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