Tag: bike boulevards
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Neighborhood-Powered Streets Part 3: Controversially less controversial
This story is part of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement. In part three, we look into hopes that greenway projects will be less controversial than arterial bike lanes and how that could impact the city’s bicycle infrastructure conversation for better and worse. For Councilmember Sally Bagshaw and some other neighborhood greenway supporters,…
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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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Neighborhood-Powered Streets, Part 1: Greenways find new political momentum in Seattle
This story kicks off of a series about Seattle’s young neighborhood greenway movement we are publishing this week. In the first installment, we look at neighborhood greenway design and Seattle’s newly-found political power supporting them. Bicycle advocates have worked tirelessly to create safer routes across the city, between neighborhoods and towards downtown. Because of these…
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My Ballard: Bagshaw says group will look into bike boulevards
Councilmember Sally Bagshaw told the Ballard District Council that a group is forming to look into bike boulevards in Seattle, according to My Ballard: “The neighbors love it because it slows down traffic so much. That again you can be outside, play in the street for the kids but you can ride many, many miles.…
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Wallingford bike boulevard will include ‘runnel’
The bicycle boulevard planned for Wallingford will include modifications to the Aurora pedestrian overpass at 41st Street and an enhanced crossing at Stone Way, according to Sam Woods at SDOT. Woods said plans will likely include installing a runnel on the existing pedestrian overpass at Aurora and 41st. A runnel is basically a track on…
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Bike boulevard coming to Wallingford
The Neighborhood Projects Fund has announced support for the Wallingford Bicycle Boulevard Project, which aims to turn N 44th or 43rd Avenues into a much-needed bike friendly east-west route through northern Wallingford. Bicycle boulevards are streets where bicycle travel has priority over motor vehicle travel. Typically, stop signs are installed at each intersection and are…
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