Entries for date "2015"

PARKing Day 2015 Makes Successful Streets

Five local neighborhood groups changed their streets on a grand scale on Friday September 18. People in Rainier, Ballard, Ravenna, Bryant and Fremont were winners of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways first annual PARK(ing) Day Design Competition. Instead of endless public meetings, design charettes, and flat conceptual drawings, we helped these four groups build protected intersections in Ballard and Bryant, and thousands of feet of protected bike lanes in Rainier and …

Seattle Celebrates PARKingDayPlus

Cathy Tuttle September 16. 2015 Remarkable people in Ballard, Rainier, Bryant, and Ravenna are erecting PARK(ing) Day projects to make their streets safer on Friday, September 18 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Four winning designs from the first annual Seattle Neighborhood Greenways PARK(ing) Day Design Competition will be built this Friday. These are tactical urbanism projects - quick, inexpensive, and effective demonstrations of how streets can be safer for …

Greenways Receives Major SDOT Award

Cathy Tuttle September 12, 2015 SDOT Director Scott Kubly awards SNGreenways 2015 Transportation Team Award Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly presents Seattle Neighborhood Greenways with the 2015 Transportation Team Award On September 10, 2015, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways (SNG) received the Transportation Team Award from Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). SDOT gives just one annual award to "individuals or teams from other departments/groups or citizens not employed by the city, such as volunteers or non‑profit groups who help to …

SR-520 Resolution Needs to be Better

Gordon Padelford September 10, 2015 montlake blvd interchange The 520 Montlake Interchange will be a formidable obstacle The SR-520 and the Montlake Bridge area is one of Seattle's key geographic chokepoints for walking and biking.

The $1.64 billion SR-520 highway project will be set in concrete for the next eighty years. It must work.

The Seattle City Council has released a draft resolution outlining the City's official position on how to improve …