Entries for date "February 2015"

Save Lives & Keep Moving: Seattle's Successful Safety Redesigns

Road Diet Save Lives & Keep Moving Open graphic in full screen Cathy Tuttle February 15, 2015 If you think a "road diet," or safety redesign, will slow you down, think again. Walking in Seattle blogger Troy Heerwagen poured through data from a half dozen Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) evaluation reports and found huge benefits for everyone using our shared public right-of-way. SDOT engineers have learned smart new techniques to make high-capacity streets safer and more …

Safety Over Speeding On Rainier Avenue South

Supporters of Safety Over Speeding along Rainier Avenue South Supporters of Safety Over Speeding along Rainier Avenue South Sign petition I SUPPORT SAFETY OVER SPEEDING on Rainier Ave S: http://bit.ly/1FIZrhv

With 1,243 crashes in the past three years, Rainier Avenue South is the most dangerous street in Seattle. Every crash impacts our community - from cars careening into our businesses to our children being run down by drivers who never even stop. This has been going on for years …

Hawaii teams up with Greenways to start Memorial Walks

Hawaii experienced FOUR  fatalities of people walking in early January, three near Waikiki. On a warm January morning, 133 people rallied attended a Memorial For Elizabeth Malland and rallied for safer streets. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been working closely with @RIdeAloha, the Hawaii Bicycling League to produce their Memorial Walk/Solutions Meetings and we wish Vision Zero and Aloha for their future.

Memorial Walk for Elizabeth Malland & Solutions Meeting for Safer Streets with Hawaii Bicycling League January 2015 Memorial Walk for Elizabeth Malland & Solutions Meeting for …

Seattle Neighborhood Greenway Coalition 2015 Priorities

February 1, 2015

From six people in a church basement in 2011 working to bring neighborhood greenways to Seattle, we’ve grown to a coalition of 20 neighborhood groups working on all aspects of safe & healthy streets across Seattle. We’ve had enormous success getting our greenway routes and intersection priorities funded and built, as well as building coalitions and funding for larger safe street infrastructure projects.

For 2015, our …