Tag: rainier valley

September 4, 2014

Columbia City shaken after person drives into building + Community walk Friday

Columbia City residents and workers are still shaken up after someone drove into a hair salon last week and broke through the inside wall before coming to a rest inside the deli next door. Seven people were injured, including several children. Somehow, nobody was killed. The building’s structure was damaged and at risk of collapsing,…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, deb salls, phyllis porter, rainier ave, rainier valley
July 24, 2014

In 2017, central and south Seattle could be covered in neighborhood greenways

As we reported yesterday, Seattle’s neighborhood greenways are attracting a whole lot of people on bikes. One route in Ballard even led to an 805 percent increase in people biking on the street in just the first year of operation. And the city is just getting started. After a couple years trying to figure out…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, rainier valley, sdot, trevon crease-holden
May 30, 2014

Rainier Valley is getting an east-west neighborhood greenway, open house Monday

The city is planning two neighborhood greenways in Rainier Valley this year with hopes to have them ready to build next year. One route will travel north and south for much of the valley, and the other will travel east-to-west in the Othello neighborhood. A community open house Monday will look at options for that…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, newholly, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, s myrtle street, s willow street, sdot
April 4, 2014

Weekend Guide: Rainier Valley Pop-Up Greenway, 57 Varieties Time Trial + Kidical Mass

Here’s a look at some of the highlights from the Seattle Bike Blog Events Calendar. Got a bikey event or fun group bike ride idea? Anyone can post to the calendar. Just go to the calendar page and follow the instructions at the top. The city will begin planning work for two neighborhood greenway routes…
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tagged: 57 varieties time trial, events, kidical mass, moisture festival, pop-up greenway, rainier valley, rainier valley greenways, weekend guide
March 24, 2014

Mountain biking in an urban forest? Cheasty MTB Park public meeting Tuesday

Tuesday is shaping up to be quite a packed bike meeting day. The Safe Roads Awareness Week kickoff walk is in the afternoon, then an open house for the second Ballard neighborhood greenway is in the evening. But if mountain biking is your passion, you may want to attend the Cheasty Greenspace Mountain Bike Pilot…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, meetings, rainier valley
March 19, 2014

Walk signals are shorter in Rainier Valley, but the city will improve them this year

If you live in the Rainier Valley, many traffic signals in your neighborhood force you to walk faster than if you live in Ballard. Sometimes, you have to walk twice as fast to get across the street before traffic gets a green light. A 2013 study by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and the UW School of…
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tagged: dongho chang, public health, rainier ave, rainier valley, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, seattle times, uw