Tag: speed limits

November 30, 2022

Bike League: Inside Seattle’s community movement for slower streets

The League of American Bicyclists interviewed two wonderful friends of the blog for a story about how safe streets advocates won slower speed limits in Seattle. Brie Gyncild, who you may remember from this Pike Street bike lanes video, and Merlin Rainwater, the creator of Senior Ladies on Wheels, spoke about the community work it…
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tagged: brie gyncild, merlin rainwater, seattle neighborhood greenways, speed limits, vision zero
February 26, 2021

Lower speed limits on state highways through city proposed by Seattle

Update (3/1): SDOT has confirmed speed limit changes on Aurora and other corridors is expected in 2021 pending approval from WSDOT. The post has been updated below with comment from the department. Late last year, the Seattle Department of Transportation proposed a plan to reduce speeds on most of the highways within the city of…
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tagged: sdot, speed limits, wsdot
January 28, 2021

Seattle continues to stagnate on preventing traffic deaths even as total collisions plummet

Preliminary data on traffic collisions from last year shows that the total number of collisions involving people on bikes in Seattle was down by more than 50% compared to the average of the three previous years. This follows the trend in overall traffic crashes, which SDOT says went from 230 per week to 115 in…
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tagged: jenny durkan, speed limits, vision zero
December 10, 2019

As traffic deaths and injuries increase, Mayor will reduce speed limits to 25, add red light and speed cameras, and give walk signals a head start

Mayor Jenny Durkan made her boldest safe streets stand yet when she unveiled a 25 mph speed limit sign on Rainier Ave S, the first of several thousand sign changes coming in the next year and a half. But that’s just part of her effort to get Vision Zero back on track in the second…
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tagged: #GivePedsTheGreen, jenny durkan, leading pedestrian interval, major crash review task force, red light cameras, school zone speed cameras, sdot, speed limits
November 7, 2016

Today, Seattle speed limits dropped to 25 downtown, 20 on every minor street

Did you feel it overnight? A strange feeling that even though the street outside your window looks the same as before, there’s something different about it? OK, probably not. But something did happen: The speed limit was lowered by five miles per hour. New speed limits are in effect. Residential streets are 20 mph, arterial…
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tagged: 20’s plenty, speed limits, vision zero
September 27, 2016

Council approves lower speed limits, but the work isn’t done

The City Council approved new default speed limits across Seattle Monday, likely clearing the final major hurdle for the changes. “It’s been something that’s very near and dear to my heart,” said Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, who wrote about the issue on her blog over the weekend. Councilmembers Tim Burgess and Mike O’Brien lead the effort…
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tagged: city council, mike o’brien, sally bagshaw, speed limits, tim burgess