Tag: jenny durkan

June 9, 2020

City Councilmembers show the leadership our city needs + Mayor Durkan should resign

EDITOR’S NOTE: Seattle Bike Blog supports the Defund Seattle Police effort initially led by a large group of community organizations and leaders, including No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Block the Bunker, Seattle Peoples Party, COVID-19 Mutual Aid, Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, BAYAN, La Resistencia, PARISOL, CID Coalition, Asians for Black Lives, APICAG.…
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tagged: black lives matter, city council, defund seattle police, girmay zahilay, jenny durkan, joe nguyen, king county equity now, kshama sawant, Lisa herbold, lorena gonzález, nicole macri, tammy morales, teresa mosqueda
June 4, 2020

Mayor Durkan failed

EDITOR’S NOTE: Seattle Bike Blog supports the Defund Seattle Police effort being led by a large group of community organizations and leaders, including No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, Block the Bunker, Seattle Peoples Party, COVID-19 Mutual Aid, Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, BAYAN, La Resistencia, PARISOL, CID Coalition, Asians for Black Lives, APICAG.…
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tagged: black lives matter, defund seattle police, jenny durkan, spd
May 12, 2020

Car driving is down 91% from pre-outbreak levels on the city’s new Stay Healthy Streets

It made national news last week when Seattle announced that the Stay Healthy Streets (“SHS”) program would be transitioning from an emergency program to a permanent program. For example, a CNN headline read: “Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic so residents can exercise and bike on them.” And yes, the Stay…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, jenny durkan, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
February 4, 2020

Watch: Mayor Durkan celebrates downtown bike lanes, says more to come

(Video transcript) Mayor Jenny Durkan has completely changed her tune about bike lanes since her first year in office. Well, that’s not entirely accurate because in her first year in office, she said very little about bike lanes at all. Projects were quietly delayed, scaled back or, in the case of 35th Ave NE, cut…
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tagged: 5th ave, 8th ave, 9th ave, basic bike network, bell street, center city bike network, clara cantor, downtown, jenny durkan, Main St, south lake union, vicky clarke
February 3, 2020

Mayor Durkan: ‘Eastlake is moving forward’

Mayor Jenny Durkan removed all doubt about what she thinks about Eastlake Ave bike lanes during a mid-day press event today. “Without prejudging what would come out of an EIS or what the lawyers would say, we need that bike lane,” she said in response to a question from Heidi Groover at the Seattle Times.…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, eastlake, jenny durkan, sam zimbabwe, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
December 13, 2019

Arena’s plans for Denny Way and 2nd Ave move Seattle in the wrong direction

As part of the transportation plan for the new arena in Seattle Center, developers and the City of Seattle are currently planning to delete the north end of the 2nd Ave protected bike lane and steal crossing time from people walking on Denny Way, all in a hopeless effort to move more cars. These plans,…
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tagged: 2nd ave, arena, denny way, jenny durkan, seattle center

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