Tag: department of neighborhoods

November 20, 2015

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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tagged: accessible mt baker, department of neighborhoods, mlk way, mt baker, public outreach and engagement liason, rainier ave
September 14, 2015

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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tagged: community crosswalks, department of neighborhoods, pan-african flag, sdot, united hood movement
May 3, 2011

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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tagged: Beacon BIKES, bike boulevards, department of neighborhoods, dylan ahearn, events, lewis park, n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, neighborhood matching fund, Neighborhood-Powered Streets, people-powered park parade, spokespeople, wallingford