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Can two minutes of your time secure millions of dollars for safe streets? It's not as crazy as it sounds. The Seattle City Council will pass a budget this fall, and by showing up to a meeting and speaking for just two minutes, you can help ensure that our City will fund a future of safe streets for you, your family, and your …
A new parklet is scheduled to open next month in Uptown near the SIFF Theater on Queen Anne Avenue North.
VIA’s Community Design Studio has crafted a beautiful pro bono design, allowing another active street to have a tiny but mighty space dedicated to people.
The Seattle Parklet Program is invigorating already active commercial streets with new public places for people to gather and sit a while.
The newest parklet …
Road safety in High Point has long been a concern. But when pedestrian James St. Clair was killed last December, SDOT began looking at long-term solutions. Some improvements have already been made and more are on the way. On October 22, all are invited to the first meeting of the 35th Avenue SW Road Safety Project, a "multi-year effort to enhance safety for all users through street improvements, increased …
Courtesy of PeopleForBikes
"Every new bike project should strive to be usable by a 12-year-old." That's the simple takeaway of PeopleForBikes' new "Build It for Isabella" campaign. The reasoning goes, if it works for Isabella, a 12-year-old eager to explore her neighborhood by bike, then it will probably work pretty well for the rest of us. The idea is one legacy of Roger Geller's groundbreaking theory that there …