Tag: seattle neighborhood greenways

August 9, 2013

Seattle will get its first ‘pop-up greenway’ in Phinney/Greenwood Friday

Here’s a brilliant idea: A reusable kit full of neighborhood greenway-like tools that can be installed on neighborhood streets to turn them into something like temporary greenways. What exactly is involved in a “pop-up greenway?” The plan involves education materials at the start and end points (in this case, on 1st Ave NW between 65th…
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tagged: greenwood, phinney ridge, pop-up greenway, seattle neighborhood greenways, summer streets
August 6, 2013

100 people walk to vigil for hit-and-run victim Trevon Crease-Holden

100 people gathered Monday to walk together to a vigil at MLK and S Walden Street, where someone driving a gray Honda struck 15-year-old Trevon Crease-Holden as he and his younger brother walked across the street in a crosswalk. The person driving fled the scene and has yet to be found. Trevon has been in…
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tagged: injuries, memorial walks, quianna holden, seattle neighborhood greenways, trevon crease-holden
July 3, 2013

Video: Livable Streets Mayoral Forum + Mayoral race open thread

Thank you to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways for inviting me to be a co-moderator of Monday’s Livable Streets Forum Monday. Thanks also to my partner-in-moderating Deb Salls, Executive Director of Bike Works. I’ve never moderated anything like this before, so it was a great learning experience. Biking home from the event, it hit me that Seattle…
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tagged: 2013 mayoral race, seattle channel, seattle neighborhood greenways
June 27, 2013

Monday mayoral candidate forum will focus on safe, livable streets

Which candidates for mayor will make safe streets a top priority? Find out Monday at a mayoral candidate forum hosted in Madison Valley by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and sponsored by a long list of safe streets groups, including Seattle Bike Blog. In fact, I just may be one of the evening’s MCs along with Bike…
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tagged: 2013 mayoral race, central district, events, madison valley, seattle neighborhood greenways
June 21, 2013

Bike expert John Pucher gives downtown Seattle a scathing review

Rutgers Professor and longtime bike researcher John Pucher is in town for the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium. Pucher’s research and the book he co-authored, City Cycling, has been influential on shifting North American thinking about cycling away from fit, brave people biking in traffic or on skinny painted bike lanes toward people of all ages and…
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tagged: 2nd ave, downtown, john pucher, seattle neighborhood greenways
May 21, 2013

Memorial walk in Georgetown today for Surinderpaul Basra

There will be a memorial walk in honor of Surinderpaul Basra and in support of her friends and family. Basra, an employee at Essential Baking Company, was struck and killed one week ago at First Ave S and S Findlay Street. Details on the walk from Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: A family and community were torn…
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tagged: essential baking company, georgetown, memorial, seattle neighborhood greenways, surinderpaul basra