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Sunday: ‘Feast in the Street’ on Beacon Hill to support Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
Eat food, listen to music and support the work of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Sunday, all in the middle of Beacon Hill’s Roberto Maestas Festival Street. Feast in the Street is a fundraiser for SNG that also “lets us re-imagine our public spaces in a way that puts people first.” That’s pretty on-brand for the group,…
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Ballard-Fremont Greenways launches Wednesday, and you’re invited
Ballard and Fremont have both had local chapters of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways in the past, but they have been quiet in recent years. So some neighbors are organizing to bring the neighborhoods together into a new supergroup, and you’re invited. The group is hosting a launch party 6 p.m. Wednesday at Peddler Brewing. From the…
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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’
Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking at the start-and-stop construction of a useful bike network in our city and discusses where…
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After 2 kids were struck and badly injured, Rainier Valley Greenways calls Saturday safe streets rally
Details from Rainier Valley Greenways: We have had enough of kids and people of all ages being injured at the intersection of Rainier Ave S and S Henderson St. Just this year, three children have been hit at this intersection. Join us to talk with Mayor Durkan about what can be done to fix this…
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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Save the Basic Bike Network
EDITOR’S NOTE: With Bike Everywhere Day a week away, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has some ideas for how you can get engaged to help get the downtown Basic Bike Network back on track. If nothing else, scroll to the bottom to see their action items. This is a cross-post from their blog. May is National Bike…
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Party to celebrate outgoing and incoming Seattle Neighborhood Greenways leaders Sunday
Cathy Tuttle founded something very special when she started Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, the volunteer-empowering, community-centered safe streets organization she has led as Executive Director since its beginning in 2011. Tuttle is retiring, and the organization is hiring multiple staffers to try to fill her shoes under the leadership of new ED Gordon Padelford (as Padelford…
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