Tag: keep moving streets
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Council proposal would make Stay Healthy Streets permanent, extend Café Streets through 2022
The City Council has proposed $2.5 million to make many of the city’s Stay Healthy Streets permanent and another $300,000 to fund the popular Café Streets program through 2022 as part of the $128 million Seattle Rescue Plan to “kick start the city’s recovery,” according to a City Council presentation (PDF). Seattle Neighborhood Greenways celebrated…
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City considering car-free(ish) Lake Washington Blvd all summer + More Keep Moving Streets updates and a survey
The city may close a three-mile section of Lake Washington Boulevard to most motor vehicles (people accessing homes and parking lots allowed) from Memorial Day to Labor Day. This would be like making every day Bicycle Sunday. You can support this idea by taking SDOT’s online survey before May 10. Seattle already has more than…
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Lake Washington Blvd ‘Keep Moving Street’ returns Friday + Campaign seeks permanent design
Lake Washington Blvd is reopening to people walking and biking Friday as the city’s Keep Moving Street program returns. The street will remain mostly car-free between Mount Baker Beach and Genesee Park from April 9 through 18. Seattle has experimented with various versions of this Keep Moving Street for the past nine months, and they…
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Segment of Lake Washington Boulevard to reopen for Winter, Spring breaks UPDATED
Update: due to the anticipated snow event this weekend, the closure of Lake Washington Boulevard outlined below has been postponed to Monday February 15. It will run through Sunday the 21st as planned. A stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard just south of Mount Baker Beach will open to people walking, biking, and rolling starting this…
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Bike and pedestrian advisory boards: find Stay Healthy Streets funds elsewhere
Update: this post has been changed to clarify that any changes to Lake Washington Boulevard or Golden Gardens Park Road are not necessarily off the table but are not part of the permanent Stay Healthy Streets process. A large majority of the membership of both the bicycle and pedestrian advisory boards on Wednesday night signaled…
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Segment of Lake Washington Blvd To Reopen December 18-January 4
SDOT has just announced that it will be closing a small segment of Lake Washington Boulevard between Mount Baker Beach and Stan Sayres Boat Launch (at 45th Ave S) starting this Friday December 18 and running through Sunday January 4. This is the same segment of Lake Washington that was closed over Thanksgiving weekend, and…
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