What's black and white and gray all over?
Lake City Greenways volunteer Monica Sweet was impressed with the speed bumps she'd seen in other neighborhoods. She wanted slower, safer streets where she lived on NE 123rd in Lake City. With no sidewalks and drivers that seemed to rip through her neighborhood at high speeds, speed bumps seemed to offer a simple, inexpensive yet effective …
May 2013 crash 35th/Roxbury. Photo by Christopher Boffoli/West Seattle Blog/used with permission.
James St. Clair was the latest in a long and sad list of pedestrian and bicycle fatalities along 35th Ave SW. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways led a Memorial Walk and Solutions Meeting for Mr. St. Clair in January 2014.
1,065 crashes in 10 years on a three mile stretch of four-lane road lined mainly with single family homes …
photo courtesy Madi Carlson @familyride
The theory to test: Pumpkins per block dramatically increase after greenways are added to Seattle streets.
Pumpkins may potentially be a good (and fun!) indicator of community connections, family-friendliness, walkability, and health.
Ballard Greenways pumpkin counters want to carve out a head start on pumpkin counting. Here's their invite.
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October 17, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Marybeth Turner, Public Relations Supervisor, 206.684.8548
NE 50th Street and 12th Avenue NE lane closure
New traffic signal to enhance safety of neighborhood greenway
SEATTLE—A single westbound lane closure will …