Tag: department of neighborhoods
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Mt Baker intersection plan continues to wow + A new standard for public outreach
Seattle’s plan to turn one of its worst intersections into one of its best just keeps getting better. With the misleadingly-boring name “Accessible Mount Baker,” the project would simultaneously revolutionize non-motorized transportation in the whole Rainier Valley, prevent dozens of serious traffic injuries every year, improve general traffic flow, improve transit connections and create space…
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Seattle will let neighborhoods design their own crosswalks
Remember when community members painted crosswalks in the Central District the colors of the Pan-African flag earlier this summer? We praised the city for making them official rather than trying to clean them off. Well, now the city has gone one step further. Today, SDOT announced a new program to allow neighborhoods to officially implement…
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Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 2: Beacon Hill and Wallingford groups lead the way
This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part two, we look at two neighborhood groups that are paving the way for other neighborhoods to get organized and start planning safe streets. Beacon (Hill) BIKES “No one can come up with a better bike route than the people who…
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