Tag: stone way

December 11, 2011

Wallingford neighborhood greenway details revealed

Plans for the first segment of the Wallingford neighborhood greenway are the beginnings of something exciting. At an open house December 8, SDOT unveiled some more details, including plans for making the crossings safer and helping people find their way. First, a factoid that might ease some of your Portland envy: Average speeds on N…
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tagged: n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, sdot, stone way, wallingford
May 4, 2011

Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 3: Controversially less controversial

This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part three, we look into hopes that greenway projects will be less controversial than arterial bike lanes and how that could impact the city’s bicycle infrastructure conversation for better and worse. For Councilmember Sally Bagshaw and some other neighborhood greenway supporters,…
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tagged: bike boulevards, cathy tuttle, complete streets, john mauro, ne 125th, neighborhood greenways, Neighborhood-Powered Streets, nickerson, north seattle industrial association, sally bagshaw, stone way, suzie burke
August 4, 2010

Greenwood Ave a great tailored road case study

There should be little concern about the proposed changes to Greenwood Ave between 85th and 105th/Holman affecting vehicle capacity. According to SDOT data, this stretch handles nearly the same number of cars as the stretch of Greenwood south of 85th, which already has a similar configuration.
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tagged: greenwood, road diets, road tailoring, sdot, stone way
July 20, 2010

Road diet proposed for NE 125th, open house Monday

View Larger Map SDOT will hold an open house Monday, July 26 to give a glimpse at plans to reconfigure a 1.3 mile stretch of NE 125th between Roosevelt and 35th Ave NE. The plans sound similar to other so called “road diets” the city has seen recently.
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tagged: admiral, bike lanes, ne 125th, nickerson, road diets, sdot, stone way
July 19, 2010

Nickerson ‘road diet’ work to start next week

Work on Nickerson is scheduled to begin next week. This comes after a brief fight over the proposal, which will eliminate a traffic lane in each direction and add a center turn lane, a bicycle lane and safe crosswalks. Resistance was put to rest, largely because of an SDOT study showing the success of a…
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tagged: nickerson, publicola, road diets, sdot, stone way
July 8, 2010

‘Road diet’ for Admiral includes more buffered bike lanes

SDOT has released details about the proposed reconfiguration of SW Admiral Way between SW Olga St. and the West Seattle bridge.
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tagged: admiral, nickerson, reconfiguration, road diets, stone way, west seattle, west seattle blog