City Plans To Make Roosevelt Way NE Safer For All

  • Jan. 13, 2015
 January 13, 2015 Congratulations to Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly, Seattle City Council Transportation Committee members Tom Rasmussen (Chair), Jean Godden, and Mike O'Brien for their bold leadership and vision that will soon make Roosevelt Way NE safer for everyone. You can thank them all on this letter!  How does this project make Roosevelt Way NE safer?
  • Improved crosswalks, curb extensions, curb ramps, and sidewalks …
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UW Class Studies How to Market Walking & Biking For Transportation

  • Jan. 11, 2015
click on image to read full student report on Walking & Biking for Transportation click on image to read full student report on Walking and Biking for Transportation Every year, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staff meets with UW faculty and students to set up guided research projects and classes. In the fall of 2014, we worked with Urban Design & Planning Instructor Megan Horst to help develop a UW Studio class focused on behavior change that would lead to more walking and biking at UW. …
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Let's Talk About Safe Streets

  • Jan. 6, 2015
Click to open in full screen Click to open in full screen January 6, 2015 Language is powerful. The language we use everyday has the ability to change how people think about the world. Our ideas about reframing the language of traffic violence are starting to take root nationally! Still, many news media outlets and even cities still call preventable crashes "accidents." By doing so, it frames traffic deaths as unavoidable byproducts of our transportation system. …
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Year in Review: A Safe Streets Takeover, Born Out of Love

  • Dec. 16, 2014
Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 2.55.50 PM A glorious summer day in Wallingford. (And my front yard!)

I love Seattle. I love touching the water, seeing our mountains, our year-round growing season. My parsley and kale are still tenaciously holding on. I love how people identify their neighborhoods with a fierce pride—Alki, Licton Springs, Ballard, Beacon Hill.

We live in a beautiful place where we can sense how we belong to the earth. In three years, Seattle …

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Dongho Chang Wins the 2014 Innovation Award for His Bollard Curb Extension!

  • Dec. 16, 2014
Dongho's design makes it easier and much cheaper to extend a curb Dongho's design makes it easier and much cheaper to extend a curb Cheap, effective, easy, these new curb extensions are ready to make Seattle streets safer! Dongho Chang is a safe streets innovator! Honorable Mentions are also in order for the project, program, or idea that pushes the leading edge of safe streets in Seattle:
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