Tag: spokespeople

January 6, 2012

No slowing down for citizen neighborhood greenway organizers

It might be winter, but the citizen neighborhood greenway organizers are still moving full speed ahead, and their numbers are steadily growing. They held a meeting for residents of Phinney Ridge and Greenwood Wednesday, they are organizing a community bike ride on the Wallingford Greenway route to the UW bike stations Saturday, they are presenting…
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tagged: beacon hill, david amiton, madison park, neighborhood greenways, spokespeople, uw, wallingford
November 23, 2011

Wallingford Neighborhood Greenway open house December 8

The Wallingford Neighborhood Greenway is almost here, and SDOT is holding an open house December 8 to introduce it to the community. The meeting will be from 6-7:30 p.m. at Hamilton International Middle School (Densmore and 41st St). The project competed for and won a Neighborhood Matching Fund grant last year, thanks in large part…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, spokespeople, wallingford
August 12, 2011

Weekend Guide: PhinneyWood Summer Streets + Beacon Hill family bike ride

The PhinneyWood Summer Streets festival takes over 17 blocks of Greenwood Ave today (August 12). This is one of the larger Summer Streets fests in the city, so be sure to stop by. From SDOT: Walk. Bike. Shop. Play. Breathe. On Friday, August 12 Greenwood Avenue/Phinney Avenue from N 87th Street to N 67th Street…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, events, greenwood, phinney ridge, spokespeople, summer streets
July 11, 2011

Times: Group leaders make case for neighborhood greenways

Community leaders from neighborhoods all around Seattle see CTAC III as their shot to fund Seattle’s budding neighborhood greenway movement (see our previous series). As the committee decides whether to pursue an $80 vehicle license fee ballot measure, Cathy Tuttle, Dylan Ahearn and Michael Snyder (from Spokespeople, Beacon BIKES and Ballard Greenways, respectively) penned a…
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tagged: Ballard greenways, Beacon BIKES, neighborhood greenways, seattle times, spokespeople
May 3, 2011

Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 2: Beacon Hill and Wallingford groups lead the way

This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part two, we look at two neighborhood groups that are paving the way for other neighborhoods to get organized and start planning safe streets. Beacon (Hill) BIKES “No one can come up with a better bike route than the people who…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, bike boulevards, department of neighborhoods, dylan ahearn, events, lewis park, n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, neighborhood matching fund, Neighborhood-Powered Streets, people-powered park parade, spokespeople, wallingford