Act Now to support walk/bike/transit in this year's City Budget!
- clara
- Oct. 14, 2021
- Update: Phone in to give public comment Thursday morning, 10/28. when Seattle City Council discusses the transportation budget! Public comment starts at 9:30 am, sign-up opens at 7:30 am. How-to guide here.
- Click here to send an email of support to the entire City Council
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- Vision Zero: Increase funding for our Vision Zero program, which has strong equity and safety prioritizations.
- Sidewalks: Increase funding for sidewalk construction, particularly along critical transit corridors, improving access for disabled people, elders, and others.
- Lake Washington Boulevard: Conduct equitable engagement to design and implement permanent improvements for Lake Washington Boulevard.
- Martin Luther King Way South Safety: Ask SDOT to come up with a plan to make this high crash corridor safer for people walking, biking, and accessing transit.
- Remove Data Collection from the Police: Ask SDOT to analyze what it would take to collect street safety and crash data in order to move this work away from the Seattle Police Department.
- Smart Planning: Demand accountability for the "Citywide Integrated Transportation Plan," which may undercut our efforts to make safer streets.
- Progressive Revenue: Continue to seek new progressive revenue, and direct sources such as the Vehicle Licensing Fee and Commercial Parking Tax towards street safety.
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![Two people walk beside 7 lanes of traffic on Aurora Ave.](https://seattlegreenways.org/wp-content/uploads/AuroraAve_KidsWalkingToSchool.png)
![A mixed race family smiles for the camera with their dog in front of a boulevard full of people walking and biking next to a lake.](https://seattlegreenways.org/wp-content/uploads/KMS_LWB_SmilingFamily_TerryHolmeResized.png)
- Lake Washington Boulevard: $200,000 to conduct equitable engagement and develop a community design for a long-term vision for people using this iconic waterfront space.
- Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Safety: A request that SDOT develop a plan to make this high crash corridor safer for people walking, biking, and accessing transit. MLK Blvd is one of the most dangerous streets in Seattle, and has seen 3 community members killed this summer.
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![A street scene with people biking and people boarding a bus.](https://seattlegreenways.org/wp-content/uploads/Seattle-Bus.jpg)
![A pie chart showing funding from the Vehicle Licensing Fee.](https://seattlegreenways.org/wp-content/uploads/Mayoral-VLF-proposal.png)
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