Come to the community forum about providing Safe Routes to Schools in Central-North Seattle January 20 2015
Hear presentations by Seattle Department of Transportation on its efforts to create Safe Routes to Schools and by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways on its efforts to support safer and more pleasant streets.
PARTICIPATE in an interactive workshop where we gather around maps to:
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?
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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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. …
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 …