September 9 2015
Summer Parkways is this Saturday September 12 in the Central District!
Over three miles of car-free streets and parks for you and your family to play on, walk and bike on!
Watch or take part in the Disaster Relief Trials, check out all day live music and food trucks, take lessons with Skate Like A Girl, and bring along your stuffed animal friends for Swedish …
Councilmember Rasmussen at James St Clair Memorial Walk @WestSeattleBlog.com photo
September 3, 2015
Tom Rasmussen has chaired the Seattle City Council Transportation Committee for years. While Bertha, streetcars, unprecedented traffic congestion, and freight take a lot of his attention, the Councilmember has remained attentive to the needs of people who walk and bike.
Most recently, Rasmussen has weighed in on Sound Transit's construction closure of the 12th Ave NE Greenway. …
Grand Prize Winner Rainier Ave S Protected Bike Lanes from Family Bike & Shirley Savel
August 27, 2015
Announcing the 2015 Seattle Neighborhood Greenways first annual PARK(ing) Day Design Competition winners!
(Hurry!! Applications for PARK(ing) Day are due by close of day Friday, August 28.)
Our judges (Andres Salomon University/NE Greenways), Bob Edmiston (Madison Park Greenways), Dave Rodgers (SvR Design), David Burgesser (Seattle Department of …
August 13, 2015
Mercer Mess Blocked Box. KOMO photo.
Today in Seattle City Council, officials from Seattle Police and Seattle Department of Transportation presented a new initiative championed by Councilmember Sally Bagshaw called "Don't Be a Jerk, Don't Block the Box".
Obstructing crosswalks and intersections during signal changes is indeed part of the Municipal Code of Seattle and is against the law (SMC 11.50.070), but traffic violations are …
Mayor Murray at Rainier Ave S Open House 7-301-15
Cathy Tuttle July 31, 2015
In a sweltering and packed gymnasium, with the Mayor, City Councilmember Bruce Harrell, and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Director Scott Kubly shouting through a rolled up paper megaphone (the sound system had failed), three of the most transformative projects SDOT has proposed to date were launched.
Harrell tossed down his megaphone and shouted, "We are …