Tag: rainier ave

March 14, 2023

Renton starts work on short section of Rainier Avenue trail + Seattle should prepare a connection

There’s a very interesting piece buried deep within a major roadway rebuild project on Rainier Avenue in Renton: 1,000 feet of trail on the east side of the street that will someday be part of the Lake Washington Loop connecting Airport Way to Seattle. The City of Renton is staring construction work on a massive…
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tagged: lake washington loop, rainier ave, renton
May 18, 2022

Fact-checking SDOT’s excuses for not making Rainier Ave safer

The good news is that SDOT is redesigning one of the worst stretches of roadway in the city: Rainier Avenue S between Columbia City and I-90. The bad news is that their design still prioritizes car movement above transit mobility and safety, especially for people walking and biking. This design is simply not good enough.…
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tagged: bruce harrell, rainier ave, sdot, tammy morales
March 10, 2021

Bigger detour scheduled at 23rd and I-90 as detour legibility issues persist

As soon as Monday March 15, people walking, biking, and rolling on the Mountains to Sound trail at 23rd Ave S & I-90 will have a more circuitous detour as crews pave the east side of the 23rd Ave crosswalk and close the entire trail near the intersection. The entire sidewalk on the east side…
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tagged: judkins park station, mountains-to-sound, rainier ave
September 10, 2020

Seattle knew 5 years ago that a Rainier Ave safety project would save lives, but is just now starting work

Rainier Ave S has long held a terrible title: The most dangerous street in Seattle. It saw more crashes per mile than the city’s other deadly streets, including Lake City Way and Aurora, despite carrying far fewer trips. “During a 6-month study in 2015, on average, there was 1 crash per day that took 45…
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tagged: jenny durkan, rainier ave, sdot, vision zero
August 20, 2019

Don’t listen to SDOT, wear whatever you want to wear when walking on Rainier Ave

Are you bragging here @seattledot? https://t.co/C2cfNL3L4I — Fix Rainier Ave (@FixRainier) August 2, 2019 “Rainier Ave S averages more crashes per day than anywhere else in Seattle,” the public agency in charge of making city streets safe wrote on bus and light rail station ads in South Seattle recently. As the @FixRainier Twitter author put…
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tagged: don’t blend in, rainier ave, sdot
March 5, 2019

Chrystal Barber sentenced to 7.5 years for hit-and-run killing of Alex Hayden

Chrystal Barber, 51, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after she pleaded guilty to striking and killing Alex Hayden, 50, with her aunt’s red pickup truck on Rainier Ave S last July. After veering into the bike lane and hitting Hayden from behind, Barber kept driving, dragging his bike down the…
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tagged: alex hayden, chrystal barber, rainier ave, skyway

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