Mayor McGinn announced this evening that North 143rd will have 3200 square feet of sidewalks constructed as part of eleven city wide Neighborhood Street Fund Projects. The North 143rd safety improvement project, supported by the Broadview Community Council and ranked as the highest priority project by the North West District Council will construct a 6′…
Category Archives: Pedestrian Safety
Coming: New Traffic Signal for Bike Route
Fremont Ave N and N 105th Street SEATTLE—The Seattle Department of Transportation will install a new traffic signal at the intersection of Fremont Avenue North and North 105th Street early in August to serve the Interurban North signed bicycle route. Bicyclists and pedestrians on Fremont Avenue North will be allowed to continue straight through the…
Walkability Gains Ground
Hi Richard, I wanted to let you know that we enjoyed the Seattle Sketcher article and sketch about you and Linden Avenue yesterday in the Seattle Times! I’m sending along an attachment with the article in case you want to save it or forward it to others. Happy walks! -Sue and Jim Jensen Seattle
Pedestrians to drivers: Back off!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Last updated 11:56 a.m. PT Brandy Sebron-Kelley, right, holds up a sign which details how she was hit by a car at North 130th Street and Linden Avenue North while in a crosswalk and in her wheelchair. Sebron-Kelley was joined by Steve Rice, playing the accordion, and others during a protest…
Mayor's 'walk more' plan stumbles over sidewalks
Meryl Schenker / P-I On the north side of Virginia Street, betweeen First and Second avenues in downtown Seattle, the sidewalk is severely buckled. The city of Seattle is encouraging people to get out of their cars this summer and use alternative travel methods. But some people complain that walking – a great car alternative…
Is sidewalk's end the place to spend?
By Sanjay Bhatt Seattle Times staff reporter John and Sarah Price walk along Alki Avenue Southwest, where a citywide review team has proposed spending $600,000 to extend the sidewalk on the water side of the street to Beach Drive Southwest, creating a safer pedestrian route around Alki Point. Bill Russell, a condo resident on Alki…
Mayor proposes $800,000 for Linden Avenue North
From today’s budget proposal by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels: …The 2008 Proposed Budget also adds new money from the General Subfund and Real Estate Excise Tax (REET) for a variety of projects, including: Existing neighborhood-based project funds, which receive an additional $2 million. The City has had a Neighborhood Street Fund process for several years…
Hear about the Pedestrian Master Plan at the September 18 Broadview Community Council Meeting
Walking is the oldest and most efficient, affordable, and environmentally-friendly form of transportation there is its how transit riders eventually reach their destinations, and its the primary way that neighbors get to know one another and begin to build strong communities. Nearly everyone, for at least some portion of every day, is a pedestrian. That…
Giving everyone a sidewalk is no walk in the park
By Sanjay Bhatt Seattle Times staff reporter http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003845912_sidewalks21m.html Jim Portillo walks in the roadway, just a few feet from passing cars, because there are no sidewalks along his Greenwood street. Portillo, 31, is blind. Sweeping the area ahead left to right with a white cane, he avoids the roadway’s gravel shoulder — if it exists…
