Tag: stay healthy streets

June 14, 2021

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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tagged: cafe streets, keep moving streets, Lisa herbold, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
March 5, 2021

Take SDOT’s newest Stay Healthy Streets survey

SDOT is moving forward with its plan to implement up to 20 miles of “permanent” Stay Healthy Streets this year, even as the department doesn’t yet have a funding source identified to keep the Mayor’s promise from last summer. A plan to use money from some projects in the bicycle master plan program met resistance…
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tagged: greenwood, stay healthy streets
February 3, 2021

Stay Healthy Streets program may be paused if funding swap not approved

Last night the oversight committee for the Move Seattle levy was told that the popular Stay Healthy Streets program will likely have to pause if the Seattle Department of Transportation doesn’t get approval to divert funding from 2.5 miles of neighborhood greenway projects that the department says it’s unlikely to be able to fully complete…
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tagged: 2021 budget, neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
January 7, 2021

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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tagged: keep moving streets, stay healthy streets
December 18, 2020

14th Ave’s Stay Healthy Blocks in Capitol Hill May Not Return

Seattle’s network of Stay Healthy Streets, in place for most of this year on a portion of the city’s neighborhood greenway network, noticeably left out most of Seattle’s urban centers where a large proportion of the rental housing exists. Neighborhoods like the U District, Eastlake, First Hill, Northgate, South Lake Union, Uptown, and Capitol Hill…
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June 26, 2020

SDOT pilots a car-free Lake Washington Blvd through Tuesday, announces more Stay Healthy Streets

Lake Washington Blvd has been the most-requested street for the city’s car-free and car-light street projects, which started as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the need to create more space for people to safely distance while getting some exercise or fresh air. And now SDOT and Seattle Parks are experimenting with what is…
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tagged: beacon hill, cedar park, golden gardens, lake washington blvd, sdot, seattle parks district, stay healthy streets