Rainier Valley's Phyllis Porter Leads the Way at "Find It, Fix It" Walk

Rainier Valley Greenway's Phyllis Porter has jumped into the Southeast Seattle "Find It, Fix It Community Walks" in a big way. Here are her notes about a recent Walk along Orcas St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Way: Seattle Police Captain John F. Hayes and Rainier Valley Greenways Outreach Advocate Phyllis Porter.

I along with community residents, police, and city officials walked together last evening to identify physical …

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Rackathon: Bringing the Best of Bike Parking to Seattle

  • Aug. 4, 2014
If you regularly ride your bike in Seattle, you've likely had trouble parking your bike. Often, there just aren’t enough bike racks to go around. Sometimes they’re far away or in an odd location—like behind a dumpster, or right up next to a building. And sometimes the racks are just poorly designed and hard to use, particularly if you ride something like an extracycle or a family bike. On July …
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Let's Bring Sunday Parkways to Seattle!

  • Aug. 4, 2014
If you had the chance to bring “one of the greatest community events ever created” to Seattle—wouldn’t you? Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has long advocated to bring these fun and inspiring events to Seattle, and why we traveled to Portland with 18 Seattle leaders, including Cascade Bicycle Club staff, Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, SDOT and Seattle Parks managers, and local advocates to see and learn about the magic …
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Local Leaders Discuss Wary Bikers, Family Rides on KUOW

  • Aug. 4, 2014
Did you catch this KUOW segment on what it will take to get more Seattleites on bikes? (Listen here) The segment features a couple of our passionate Seattle Neighborhood Greenways leaders, Madison Park Greenways Bob Edmiston (also on our Board), and Wallingford Greenways Madi Carlson (she's also our webmaster!) Madi Carlson bikes with her kids. Madi Carlson bikes with her kids. Edmiston talks on KUOW about the characters he’s come up with to illustrate …
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Linking Seattle's Northern Lakes with Greenways

  • Aug. 1, 2014
Wouldn't it be great to travel on safe streets around the beautiful small lakes of north Seattle? Wouldn't safe crossings of Aurora and I-5 make sense in the northern end of the city? These are some of the questions people in the northernmost end of Seattle are asking as they form a new greenways group.Screen Shot 2014-08-01 at 3.17.52 PM The new Northern Lakes Greenway is supported by Lake City Neighborhood Alliance, the Haller Lake …
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