University Greenways

NE Seattle / University Greenways meetup tonight!

2023 Year-in-Review Seattleites overwhelmingly want to make our streets safer and more convenient for people walking, rolling, biking, and taking transit. Yet …

This is a good read! If you can support, attend this meeting 6pm tonight at 1551 Eastlake Ave E.

Eastlake group is trying to kill RapidRide J (which includes bike lanes) I’m traveling home today after a week in St. Louis and Las Vegas visiting family, but I wanted to put out this notice since it is a top priority bike network improvement. The Eastlake Community Cou…

This Saturday, 1:00-3:30 PM at Gas Works Park: Come hang out & grill with volunteers working to make our city a great place to walk, bike & live. Did we mention there will be free t-shirts? 🎉 👕

Details & RSVP: https://fb.me/e/53vhZBXcX

Can't wait to celebrate with Rainier Valley Greenways Duwamish Valley Safe Streets Beacon Hill Safe Streets Central Seattle Greenways West Seattle Greenways Queen Anne Greenways SLUG South Lake Union Greenways Ballard-Fremont Greenways Green Lake & Wallingford Safe Streets Greenwood-Phinney Greenways Lake City Greenways Licton-Haller Greenways NE Seattle Greenways University Greenways 99 Problems

We finished paving!
Celebrate the completion of the Green Lake and Wallingford Paving & Multi-Modal Improvements Project with a bike ride and scavenger hunt.
🔹Inaugural bike ride July 31, Starting 10:30 AM @ the Flamingo lot of the Woodland Park Zoo
🔹Scavenger hunt between July 31 – Aug 8, post a photo with for a chance to win prizes. Visit out project website for more information: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/greenlakepaving.htm

Great news! Council just proposed $2.5M to make permanent & $300K to fund Cafe Streets through 2022!
Click thru to thank & ask for support for Lisa Herbold's amendment to fund Keep Moving Streets on Alki Point, Green Lake & Lake WA Blvd https://seattlegreenways.org/blog/2021/06/10/funding-for-stay-healthy-streets-and-cafe-streets/

What's next for Stay Healthy Streets?

"We believe that Stay Healthy Streets should be the new default standard for Neighborhood Greenways. The physical barriers and placemaking being promised are reminiscent of the promises made when the City introduced Neighborhood Greenways."

"These streets should be everywhere...Stay Healthy Streets are most valuable in Seattle’s densest neighborhoods with the least access to outdoor public spaces, and this can only be achieved by expanding outside of the existing network of Neighborhood Greenways, that are mostly in low density neighborhoods."

Read more https://seattlegreenways.org/blog/2021/05/14/whats-next-for-stay-healthy-streets/

This week the Seattle City Council unanimously passed an extension of Cafe Streets permits through May 2022!

Cafe streets "add to the quality of our lives, not just the quantity of our parking spaces." They're good for public health, businesses and workers, and our communities.

We have five draft ideas to shape a permanent program:
1) Require Accessibility
2) Ensure safety
3) Encourage collaboration
4) Make the program equitable
5) Go big
Read more: https://seattlegreenways.org/cafestreets/

Update: removed!

Watch out! Speed bumps added to Roosevelt Way bike lane near 43rd Without any advance warning, the Seattle Department of Transportation has added “speed bumps” to the Roosevelt Way NE protected bike lane around the bus stop island near N 43rd Street. …

Wow!

Lake Washington Blvd update! got LOTS of good feedback on opening the street to walking, biking, and rolling. The city is now considering closing LWB to cars permanently. Thanks to all who shared their feedback. Collective action is powerful!
https://kuow.org/stories/lake-washington-boulevard-has-reopened-to-cars-but-the-city-s-weighing-a-permanent-closure

The WA bicycle and pedestrian count has resumed + How you can help Details from Maimoona Rahim at Cascade Bicycle Club: After a short break, the Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Count is back! It’s happening this fall on October 20, 21 and 22 at a str…

Have you noticed? They work!

Report: NE 65th Street bike lanes have saved lives and prevented serious injuries For a four-year period, the short stretch of NE 65th Street between NE Ravenna Blvd and 39th Ave NE killed one person and seriously injured at least one other person every year. But a hard-fought s…