Tag: seattle neighborhood greenways

June 9, 2023

Workgroup recommends slowing speed camera expansion until equity issues are resolved

Speed cameras can reduce speeding and collisions while simultaneously bringing in funds to make permanent physical safety improvements to streets. And they can do all this without involving an armed police officer, sidestepping the issue of biased policing. Or at least, that’s how it is supposed to work. Whose Streets? Our Streets! is “a BIPOC-focused…
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tagged: seattle neighborhood greenways, speeding cameras, whose streets our streets
May 18, 2023

Port says it supports waterfront trail if it can be detoured during cruise loading

In response to the surge of letters they received from people concerned about Seattle’s plan to permanently route the waterfront bike path across Alaskan Way and back again near the Pier 66 cruise terminal, the Port of Seattle said it supports a trail on the west side of Alaskan Way so long as it can…
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tagged: alaskan way, alaskan way trail, pier 66, port of seattle, seattle neighborhood greenways, waterfront
May 10, 2023

Action Alert: Tell the Port you support a seamless waterfront trail

You have already told SDOT to build a continuous waterfront trail between Myrtle Edwards Park and the new downtown waterfront, but city plans still show the trail crossing Alaskan Way twice in a matter of a couple blocks near the cruise ship terminal at Pier 66. Now Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has another action alert you…
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tagged: downtown, port of seattle, seattle neighborhood greenways, waterfront
April 14, 2023

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways event will imagine ‘pedestrian streets in every Seattle neighborhood’

OK, OK, yes, it is ridiculous that Pike Place allows cars (especially non-delivery vehicles). But that is just one little street downtown, and it tends to take up most of the space in local conversations about pedestrianizing streets. Let try this statement on for size: There should be at least one pedestrian street in every…
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tagged: events, pedestrianize this, seattle neighborhood greenways
March 2, 2023

Greenways and Cascade seek more specifics in plan to get Vision Zero back on track

SDOT is set to present their “top to bottom review” of the Vision Zero program to the City Council Transportation Committee March 7, and safe streets advocates are pushing for more specifics and hard deadlines to “light a fire under our elected leaders to get Vision Zero back on track,” as Cascade Bicycle Club put…
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tagged: bruce harrell, cascade bicycle club, greg spotts, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero
January 2, 2023

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways reviews 2022 safe streets progress

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways recapped 2022 recently, and I think it’s a good reminder of the progress made while also setting the stage for the work needed ahead. It is difficult to celebrate wins when you’re talking about a transportation system that is increasingly deadly, but there were quite a few legitimate wins worth celebrating. We…
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tagged: healthy streets, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero, whose streets our streets