Tag: vision zero

September 4, 2015

Toward Zero: Honoring the 150 people killed or badly injured in Seattle traffic since Sher Kung

A crowd gathered on the steps of the Garden of Remembrance downtown Friday listened to 150 bell rings, one for every person seriously injured or killed in Seattle traffic in just one year. They also heard ten names, all people who were killed in traffic in the same year. “We are honoring today — not…
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tagged: bob anderton, cascade bicycle club, cathy tuttle, move seattle, move seattle levy, seattle neighborhood greenways, sher kung, vision zero
August 11, 2015

Chatting with Q13 about downtown’s traffic violence emergency

Q13 News invited me on their morning news show today to talk about traffic violence downtown, which I described a few weeks ago as “a public health emergency we haven’t been treating.” We also talked about SW Admiral Way, where the city is currently working to make safety improvements and add bike lanes (here’s our…
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tagged: downtown, q13, sw admiral way, vision zero
March 20, 2015

SDOT Director pens must-read Vision Zero op-ed for Seattle Times

Seattle’s Transportation Director penned a powerful op-ed about Vision Zero in the Seattle Times this week. I would paraphrase and analyze it, but reading it really just makes me want to stand up and applaud. Read it all here. Here’s an excerpt: A LEADING cause of death for Seattle residents ages 5 through 24 is…
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tagged: scott kubly, seattle times, vision zero
March 4, 2015

Seattle’s plummeting bike collision rate may have stalled

As more people bike in a city, the total number of bicycle-involved collisions often remains flat. Sometimes it rises a little, and sometimes it falls. But the “safety in numbers” bike safety phenomenon is surprisingly consistent: The more people bike, the further the collision rate falls. Seattle appeared to be the poster child for this.…
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tagged: american communities survey, king 5, vision zero
February 18, 2015

Infographic: Seattle’s low-cost safe streets projects work really well

A road diet, rechannelization, safe streets redesign, complete streets project or whatever you want to call it: It works. Troy Heerwagen has created an excellent interactive infographic over at his Walking in Seattle blog that shows how consistently effective Seattle’s long history with low-cost safe streets redesigns has been. Many of our city streets were…
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tagged: road diets, Troy Heerwagen, vision zero
February 17, 2015

Can Seattle end traffic violence by 2030?

Sandhya Khadka dreamed big. She believed in equality, especially equality for women, and she was dedicated to do something about it. “There are people you remember for long after they are gone. Sandhya was one of those,” said family friend Writu Kakshapati. Kakshapati was speaking to a crowd gathered last week to hear about the…
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tagged: ed murray, road safety action plan, sandhya khadka, scott kubly, vision zero, writu kakshapati