Tag: walking in seattle
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Walking in Seattle: These 28 Seattleites died walking on road diet candidate streets last decade
The road diet battles in Seattle have a tendency to get nasty, and they are far from over. Even though the Federal Highway Administration has officially (finally) named the road diet as a “proven safety countermeasure,” the projects can be controversial regardless of past successes or engineering analyses. But while we argue over every mile…
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Walking in Seattle: 1/3 of Seattle pedestrian deaths occur on state and federal roads
Almost all of Seattle’s streets are city-owned and operated. Yet one third of the people who die while walking in our city are killed on federal and state highways, Walking in Seattle reports: Of the 104 pedestrians that were killed in Seattle during that period, 31 were killed on state or federal highways. While these…
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