Tag: central seattle greenways
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Sunday: Celebrate the new Union Street bike lanes
East Union Street now has protected bike lanes from 14th to 26th Avenues, providing a lower-stress way to climb the unavoidable ridge that peaks around 18th and 17th Avenues through the Central District. Before the new lanes were installed, skinny paint-only bike lanes appeared and disappeared seemingly at random along the route. Now they are…
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Greenways groups renew push for crucial bike connection on 12th Ave S
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways affiliate groups Beacon Hill Safe Streets and Central Seattle Greenways have jointly asked the Seattle Department of Transportation to take another look at the feasibility of adding bike facilities to a dangerous segment of 12th Avenue S, between Yesler Way and King Street. The letter, dated last month, comes as SDOT continues…
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Watch: The new Pike Street bike lanes are just a glimpse into the community-led vision for Pike/Pine
[video transcript] There’s something very different about the new protected bike lanes on Pike Street on Capitol Hill: Community groups led the process every step of the way. When former mayor Ed Murray slammed the brakes on the Center City Bike Network in 2016, which included bike lanes on Pike and/or Pine streets between downtown…
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Community leads effort to build bike lanes on Pike/Pine, groups host workshop Oct 25
A coalition of community groups on Capitol Hill is hosting a design workshop October 25 to help craft a vision for the protected bike lanes on Pike and/or Pine Streets that were funded through the convention center expansion community benefits package. The City Council passed a resolution in July calling on SDOT to design and build…
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Neighbors will host memorial walk Sunday for man killed walking across Capitol Hill street
Max Richards was killed while walking his dog across busy Belmont Ave E at Bellevue Pl E September 21, and his death has shaken neighbors. Capitol Hill Seattle reports that 79-year-old Richards and his dog Pink were crossing when a woman in her 40s struck him: As the 79-year-old and his dog walked across Belmont…
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Get involved in push for safe streets: Meetings in Central Seattle, South Park
The city team working on a neighborhood greenway near the 23rd Ave corridor will be holding a series of drop-in sessions this week to gather community input and answer questions about the project. Now dubbed the Central Area Greenway, the project is due to be designed and built on an accelerated schedule in 2014 so…
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