Tag: road safety corridor

February 23, 2017

Rainier Ave safety project worked even better than planned, city will extend it south

A 2015 safe streets redesign on Rainier Ave is working even better than expected by nearly every measure. Just by repainting the lines on the major street, the city’s Vision Zero team was able to dramatically reduce the number of dangerous collisions, nearly eliminate high-end speeding, speed up transit, and fully eliminate serious injuries and deaths.…
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tagged: rainier ave, rainier valley, road safety corridor, vision zero
August 3, 2016

Support more safety changes to calm West Seattle’s ‘I-35’

Between 2011 and 2014, people driving on West Seattle’s 35th Ave SW (AKA “I-35”) crashed 294 times, injuring 128 people and killing two. That’s an average of two crashes and one injury nearly every week. This high rate of collisions and injuries will not stop until we do something to stop it. And that’s exactly…
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tagged: 35th ave sw, road safety corridor, west seattle
March 30, 2016

City looks to extend NE 75th St safety project, open house Wednesday

Building on the success of the NE 75th Street safety project, the city is heading west to improve safety on more of NE 75th Street and Banner Way NE. The 2013 safety project on NE 75th cut speeding 60 percent and nearly eliminated high-end speeding (10+ mph over the limit). Traffic volumes increased slightly, travel…
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tagged: maple leaf, ne 75th st, road safety corridor, vision zero
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 15, 2015

It’s not I-35: Support a safer 35th Ave SW at two open houses this week

In the past ten years, more than 400 people have been seriously injured in traffic collisions on just one street in West Seattle: 35th Ave SW. Five people have been killed. If we don’t take action, 400 more people will be injured in the next ten years, and five more of our neighbors and loved…
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tagged: 35th ave sw, road safety corridor, west seattle
April 15, 2015

SW Roxbury safety changes a good start, bike lanes must wait for repaving

This has got to be a Seattle Bike Blog record: Four posts in a row about West Seattle! The city is hosting an open house tomorrow (Thursday) about planned safety changes to SW Roxbury Street, which forms the border between Seattle and White Center. The open house goes from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the…
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tagged: road safety corridor, sw roxbury street, west seattle, white center