Tag: tammy morales
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Park District Board approves Lake Washington Blvd. path funding 7–1
The Seattle Park District Board approved funding a path on Lake Washington Boulevard, voting 7–1 to include $404,000 to the 2023-24 budget plan. The historic boulevard is one of the city’s original Olmsted Boulevards, which were constructed in the early 1900s as Parks projects. Even though it looks like a regular street, the boulevard is…
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Morales proposes funding for a walking and biking path on Lake Washington Blvd. – UPDATED
UPDATE: It passed by a vote of 7-1 (Nelson no, Pedersen abstain). After a series of successful and popular experiments with extended car-free days on Lake Washington Boulevard in recent years, District 2 City Councilmember Tammy Morales has proposed $404,000 in Parks District funding in 2023 and 2024 to construct a permanent biking and walking…
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Fact-checking SDOT’s excuses for not making Rainier Ave safer
The good news is that SDOT is redesigning one of the worst stretches of roadway in the city: Rainier Avenue S between Columbia City and I-90. The bad news is that their design still prioritizes car movement above transit mobility and safety, especially for people walking and biking. This design is simply not good enough.…
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Councilmember Morales: ‘No excuse’ for city failing to make streets safer
Another person was struck and killed by a car in SoDo last week. My deep condolences to their friends and family. These pedestrian and biking deaths are unacceptable because they're completely avoidable. There is no excuse for not creating safer streets and sidewalks. None. pic.twitter.com/F9UtryZ3Fn — Councilmember Tammy J. Morales (@CMTammyMorales) May 18, 2022 Councilmember…
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Person killed while biking in SoDo just a block from site of January death
A person driving a Jeep struck and killed someone biking in SoDo Wednesday morning, according to Seattle Police. The driver of the Jeep was trying to exit a parking lot onto 4th Avenue near Holgate Street, and told police they were looking south for a break in traffic so they could turn north onto 4th.…
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Seattle’s proposed scooter rules set riders up for failure
Banning electric scooters on sidewalks seems to make sense at first. Sidewalks are for walking, right? That seemed to be the guiding principle behind Seattle’s decision to mostly leave the existing ban on riding electric scooters on sidewalks in place while launching a permit scheme to allow large numbers of shared scooters to start operating…
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