Tag: green lake
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Rethinking Seattle’s Freeways: Mr. Inslee, tear down this Aurora wall
What if Bertha never finishes the SR 99 highway tunnel? What if SR 99 doesn’t need to be a freeway-style highway through downtown at all? And what if that’s true for the whole city, too? In other words, what if we tear down that awful Aurora Ave median wall once and for all? I’m talking…
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City plans Ravenna Blvd bike lane upgrades, but shouldn’t cheap out on intersections
The city is planning some pretty cool upgrades to the Ravenna Boulevard bike lanes and its connections through Ravenna Park. And they’re planning to do a lot with a small budget, like adding plastic posts to keep people from using the bike lanes as passing lanes. But they are also cutting one of the most…
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Mostly-finished Green Lake Way project reconnects neighbors with their parks
While we here at Seattle Bike Blog spend a lot of time urging the city to invest in protected bike lanes, it’s important to remember that simply redesigning a street using paint can completely revolutionize a street. The city’s in-process remake of Green Lake Way between N 50th Street and Green Lake is a perfect…
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Today: Scout out a neighborhood greenway route from Green Lake to Lake Union via Tangletown
Meet at 6 p.m. at NE 65th Street and 1st Ave NE near Green Lake Elementary. From Wallingford Greenways:
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A closer look at the city’s plans for Green Lake Way
We wrote a couple weeks ago about plans to redesign Green Lake Way between 50th and the lake. Below are more details on the city’s plans, from an open house presentation. Beyond just the merits for this project, it also seems like SDOT is getting a lot better at making a clear case for road…
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City plans to extend Stone Way bike lanes to Green Lake
At the urging of the Wallingford and Green Lake Community Councils, the city is planning road design changes on Green Lake Way N between N 50th Street and Green Lake. The safety-oriented plan would redesign the street to more closely match the sections of road on its north and south ends (Stone Way and E…
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