Tag: n 44th st

June 13, 2012

Wallingford neighborhood greenway opening celebration Saturday

The Wallingford neighborhood greenway is complete, and there will be a two-block community street party to mark the opening Saturday starting at 4 p.m. Details: Join us as we celebrate the opening of Seattle’s first neighborhood Greenway! We will be closing 44th (from Bagley to Sunnyside) to car traffic and opening the space for a…
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tagged: events, familyride, gelato bike, green lake, kidical mass, n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, totcycle, wallingford
December 11, 2011

Wallingford neighborhood greenway details revealed

Plans for the first segment of the Wallingford neighborhood greenway are the beginnings of something exciting. At an open house December 8, SDOT unveiled some more details, including plans for making the crossings safer and helping people find their way. First, a factoid that might ease some of your Portland envy: Average speeds on N…
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tagged: n 44th st, neighborhood greenways, sdot, stone way, wallingford
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
January 10, 2011

Wallingford bike boulevard will include ‘runnel’

The bicycle boulevard planned for Wallingford will include modifications to the Aurora pedestrian overpass at 41st Street and an enhanced crossing at Stone Way, according to Sam Woods at SDOT. Woods said plans will likely include installing a runnel on the existing pedestrian overpass at Aurora and 41st. A runnel is basically a track on…
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tagged: bike boulevards, n 43rd st, n 44th st, neighborhood street fund, q13, wallingford
January 3, 2011

Bike boulevard coming to Wallingford

The Neighborhood Projects Fund has announced support for the Wallingford Bicycle Boulevard Project, which aims to turn N 44th or 43rd Avenues into a much-needed bike friendly east-west route through northern Wallingford. Bicycle boulevards are streets where bicycle travel has priority over motor vehicle travel. Typically, stop signs are installed at each intersection and are…
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tagged: bike boulevards, n 43rd st, n 44th st, n 45th st, wallingford