Tag: seattle neighborhood greenways

December 5, 2024

Alert: It is once again time to voice overwhelming support for a safer Lake Washington Blvd

Even the dramatically watered-down and insufficient traffic calming improvements planned for Lake Washington Boulevard are now apparently at risk after pushback from “people who enjoy driving as fast as they want along the boulevard,” as Seattle Neighborhood Greenways put it. Neighbors have campaigned for years about the need for safer walking and biking space on…
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tagged: lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, rainier valley greenways, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
November 14, 2024

Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge

Thanks to Seattle voters, in 2025 the city is poised to invest $21 million in new sidewalks, $4.2 million in sidewalk repairs, $8.6 million in Vision Zero, $1.6 million in Safe Routes to School, $9.8 million in new protected bike lanes, and $1 million to upgrade existing bike lane barriers. To deliver all this, they…
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tagged: 2024 budget, Delridge Way SW, rob saka, sara nelson, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
October 31, 2024

SNGreenways storymap shows how the 2015 transportation levy ‘made Seattle a safer place for walking, biking and rolling’

The 2015 Move Seattle Levy added nearly 100 miles to Seattle’s bike network, repaired or replaced 44 public staircases, built 1,600 new accessible curb ramps, made 293 transit improvements, repaired 220 blocks of sidewalk and built 350 new blocks of sidewalk. This is in addition to all the other road and bridge maintenance work. It’s…
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tagged: 2024 seattle transportation levy, move seattle levy, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
August 26, 2024

‘Our kid is biking on MLK!’

The new bike lanes on MLK Jr. Way from S Judkins Street to Mount Baker Station feel like a shortcut. It’s both more direct and more gradual than any of the alternative bike route options previously available. You no longer need to scale the cliffside up to Leschi to get between Franklin High School and…
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tagged: central district, I-90 trail, mlk way, mount baker station, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
May 31, 2024

Greenways: 6 people killed in Seattle traffic in a single week as Council considers street safety funding

Traffic deaths in Washington State reached a high in 2023 that the state has not seen in 33 years. That number of deaths in 2023 increased 10% over 2022. King County leads the way with 167 people killed in traffic, more than double the number in 2014. These are all the big numbers on a…
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tagged: deaths, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero
May 14, 2024

Rita Hulsman donates $20,000 from GoFundMe for late husband Steve to benefit safe streets orgs

In the aftermath of the devastating news that Steve Hulsman was struck and killed while biking in West Seattle, 177 people donated more than $20,000 to help his wife Rita cover costs related to his death. But Rita had a different idea in mind for this money raised with love for her and her late…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, rita hulsman, seattle neighborhood greenways, steven hulsman