Entries for date "2015"

UW Class Studies How to Market Walking & Biking For Transportation

click on image to read full student report on Walking & Biking for Transportation click on image to read full student report on Walking and Biking for Transportation Every year, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staff meets with UW faculty and students to set up guided research projects and classes. In the fall of 2014, we worked with Urban Design & Planning Instructor Megan Horst to help develop a UW Studio class focused on behavior change that would lead to more walking and biking at UW. …

Let's Talk About Safe Streets

Click to open in full screen Click to open in full screen January 6, 2015 Language is powerful. The language we use everyday has the ability to change how people think about the world. Our ideas about reframing the language of traffic violence are starting to take root nationally! Still, many news media outlets and even cities still call preventable crashes "accidents." By doing so, it frames traffic deaths as unavoidable byproducts of our transportation system. …