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Tag Archives: keep moving streets
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe streets, keep moving streets, Lisa herbold, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged alki, golden gardens, green lake, keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, sdot
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, rainier valley greenways
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
SDOT: Keep Moving Streets extended until October 5
Seattle’s car-light Keep Moving Streets have been a success, so the city has extended them another month. Created in partnership between SDOT and Seattle Parks, the city’s four Keep Moving Streets are typically on arterial streets near parks or along … Continue reading
SDOT installs concrete blocks to improve safety on car-light Lake Washington Blvd
Ecology block installation today on Lake Washington Blvd pic.twitter.com/nfLtTbvnQZ — Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) August 5, 2020 SDOT has finally installed the concrete “ecology blocks” the department had initially planned as part of their efforts to deter driving on the people-focused … Continue reading
People are driving on ‘closed’ street because SDOT used barriers to build a wall at police precinct instead
When the Seattle Department of Transportation announced their plan to turn a section of Lake Washington Blvd in south Seattle into a car-light “Keep Moving Street,” a July 21 department blog post noted that they would use heavy cement “eco … Continue reading
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Tagged defund seattle police, keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, sdot
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Following successful test, Lake Washington Blvd will go car-light again
Lake Washington Boulevard is going car-free(ish) again starting Friday and continuing until at least Labor Day. SDOT and Seattle Parks tested the concept of what they call a “Keep Moving Street” on the stories lakefront street for five days in … Continue reading
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Tagged keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, sdot, seattle parks district
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