Entries for date "2017"

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“As a child, I walked along train tracks due to there not being sidewalks over to South Park to get the supplies and services we needed.”

—Rosario Medina, lifelong resident of Georgetown

As someone who supports Seattle Neighborhood Greenways’ grassroots advocacy work for safer and more equitable walking and biking access around the city, you’ve probably experienced how difficult it can be to simply get from one neighborhood to another …

Building the Downtown #BasicBikeNetwork

By Ryan Packer. A leader of South Lake Union Greenways Between 2010 and 2016, 45,000 new jobs were added in the neighborhoods comprising Downtown Seattle, most of them in District 7. Stunningly, 95% of these new commuters have chosen to get to and from work by modes other than driving by themselves. For the first time in Seattle's history, the rate of people driving by themselves to work has dropped …

Planning for Walking and Biking to U-District Light Rail

The University District is the second largest business district in Seattle, and with the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s facilities, and other major entities located there, it’s already a complex area for pedestrians, bikers, and buses. A new light rail station at NE 43rd Street and Brooklyn Ave NE is scheduled for 2021, and plans for mobility and access aren’t coming along fast enough. Drew Dresman, Transportation Planner for Seattle …

Saving a Bike Lane & Building Connections

By Robert Getch. Co-leader of Beacon Hill Safe Streets I was surprised when SDOT told Beacon Hill Safe Streets they wanted to downgrade the planned Swift/Myrtle/Othello protected bike lanes that had been originally included in the 2018 repaving project, to just bike lanes. Including protected bike lane upgrades as part of repaving projects is significantly cheaper to implement than coming back later and doing the work as a bike only …

Walking to Transit on Capitol Hill

Note from SNG Executive Director Gordon Padelford: People who live on Capitol Hill love to walk and they love to take transit. Thanks to the hard work of Central Seattle Greenways, it’s going to soon be easier to do both. Creating safe routes so that people can walk and bike to transit lines and hubs is a strategy that we’re working on with our local groups across the city. By …