Tag: road safety summit 2011

November 29, 2011

Map of Seattle road fatalities (2001-2009)

ITO World has created a map marking the spot of every road fatality in the country between 2001 and 2009, and it’s shocking (h/t Seattle Transit Blog). The victims are marked by whether they were in a car, on a motorcycle, on a bike or walking. Each victim square also notes the victim’s age, gender…
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tagged: deaths, road safety summit 2011
November 14, 2011

Reminder: Road Safety Summit tonight at Bike Works

I will be in Columbia City this evening helping to host a Road Safety Summit forum at Bike Works (at Rainier Ave and S Ferdinand). The forum will get under way at 6 p.m., wrapping up around 8. We will have a lively discussion, and everyone’s ideas and notes will be sent to the city…
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tagged: bike works, road safety summit 2011
November 11, 2011

Bike Works to host Road Safety Summit forum in Columbia City

There are two more city-sponsored chances to take part in Seattle’s Road Safety Summit: November 15 at Northgate Community Center and November 21 at Southwest Community Center (both from 6-8 p.m.) But, at the city’s suggestion, Bike Works has decided to host their own forum of the same format from 6-8 p.m. November 14 at…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, events, rainier valley, road safety summit 2011
October 31, 2011

People walking bear disproportionate number of traffic deaths and tickets

Here is a look at the recently-released SDOT 2010 Traffic Report, in light of the city’s Road Safety Summit. This post focuses on data for people walking. We will dive into the data related to biking in a later post. Mayor Mike McGinn first got into local politics because he moved to one of the…
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tagged: road safety summit 2011, sdot, spd, walking
October 24, 2011

Dangerously short walk signal at Alaskan Way and King

When I went down to walk around on the Viaduct Saturday, I encountered this extremely short walk signal at Alaskan Way and King St. This intersection connects the old waterfront trail with the newly-opened Alaskan Way Trail, so it is a fairly important signal. According to my rudimentary measurements using Google Maps, this crosswalk is…
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tagged: alaskan way, king st, road safety summit 2011, safety, traffic signal
October 20, 2011

More details on the city’s upcoming Road Safety Summit

The mayor’s office has released more details about the upcoming Road Safety Summit. The first forum will be at 6 p.m. October 24 in the Bertha K. Landes room at City Hall. From the mayor’s office: Please join us for a Road Safety Summit First meeting: October 24th, 6pm We invite you to participate in…
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tagged: mike mcginn, road safety summit, road safety summit 2011