Advocacy Alert: Safer bike lanes downtown are in jeopardy

  • clara
  • March 21, 2018
Urgent: Safer bike lanes downtown are in jeopardy. Click here to send a message to government leaders who are on the fence about whether to go forward with protected bike lanes on 4th Ave downtown. When protected bike lanes were added to 2nd Ave following the tragic death of Sher Kung, not only did 2nd Ave become much safer but the number of people biking jumped dramatically and just increased …
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  • gordon
  • Dec. 22, 2017

“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 …

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Building the Downtown #BasicBikeNetwork

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
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 …
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Planning for Walking and Biking to U-District Light Rail

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
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 …
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Saving a Bike Lane & Building Connections

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
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 …
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