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Weekend Guide: Rainier Summer Streets featuring Bike Works Block Party
This ragtag crew and I biked this machine from Beacon Hill to Bike Works HQ in Columbia City yesterday to get it ready for Saturday’s Rainier Valley Heritage Parade, which is followed by Summer Streets...
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Walk signals are shorter in Rainier Valley, but the city will improve them...
From the ITO map of traffic fatalities (2001-09) If you live in the Rainier Valley, many traffic signals in your neighborhood force you to walk faster than if you live in Ballard. Sometimes, you have...
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More details on planned improvements at Rainier and Dearborn
Image from Google Street View Yesterday, we posted about the city’s planned Neighborhood Street Fund improvements. Among the list of new sidewalks and better street crossings was this item: Dearborn...
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Help make sure Judkins Park Link Station has adequate bike parking, access
Image from 2013. The planned bike cage is on the right. Sound Transit is hosting an open house Thursday to discuss updated plans for the North Rainier/Judkins Park East Link Station, the only new...
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Columbia City shaken after person drives into building + Community walk Friday
Photo from Seattle Fire Columbia City residents and workers are still shaken up after someone drove into a hair salon last week and broke through the inside wall before coming to a rest inside the deli...
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Police find Tahoe involved in hit and run of 7-year-old + City announces...
Seattle Police announced Friday that they have found and impounded the red Chevy Tahoe they believe struck and critically injured a seven-year-old girl at MLK and Genesee Tuesday. Now they are on the...
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Rainier Ave safety project kicks off, two meetings this week
Photo from Seattle Fire Rainier Ave has been the scene of far more than its share of death and injury, serving both as the main commercial drag through Rainier Valley and one of the city’s most...
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Listen: KUOW on Rainier Ave’s speeding problem + Meeting tonight
Screenshot from KUOW. Click to listen. Rainier Ave has a serious speeding problem. But, of course, that speeding problem is actually a symptom caused by the street’s dangerous, highway-style design...
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Woman struck while crossing Rainier: ‘I have never been so scared and alone’
Myurie Ausler gets help walking. Screenshot from King 5 (click to watch) Here’s a very important story that got buried by all the Super Bowl frenzy: A woman who was struck while walking across Rainier...
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We need a safer Rainier Ave now. Meetings Thursday and Tuesday
Collisions on Rainier Ave in the study area in recent three years. The whole length is dangerous. Image from SDOT Rainier Ave is Seattle’s most dangerous neighborhood street. There’s a collision every...
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Rainier is the city’s most dangerous neighborhood street. But it could be the...
People are getting killed and seriously injured along the entire length of Rainier Ave. Image from the SDOT presentation. Data for past ten years. Rainier Avenue will be safer by the end of the year....
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Mt Baker intersection redesign could revolutionize transportation in South...
Someday, the intersection of Rainier and MLK could look like this. Images from SDOT The intersection of Rainier Ave and MLK Way is big, dangerous and works poorly for everyone. Running next to a high...
View ArticleNeighbors will protest outsized Rainier Ave danger Wednesday
Every day that passes without action, there’s another collision on Rainier Ave. Often, people are lucky enough to walk away with an auto body bill. But sometimes, people’s lives are changed forever by...
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Harrell at Rainier Ave safety protest: We’re gonna take our street back
Phyllis Porter of Rainier Valley Greenways (left) leads community members in a march across the crosswalks holding signs calling for a safer Rainier. Business leaders, community leaders, residents,...
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Want safe streets in Rainier Valley? Get to this meeting tonight
There have been more than 60 collisions on Rainier Ave since May 20, when a group of neighbors held an afternoon of protests calling for a safer Rainier Valley for everyone. So far this year, the...
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Right now, crews are making big fixes to Seattle’s most dangerous street
In an attempt to stop the flow of people from Rainier Ave to the emergency room, crews are finally out redesigning Seattle’s most dangerous street to be calmer, more efficient and more intuitive for...
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Mt Baker intersection plan continues to wow + A new standard for public outreach
Images from the Accessible Mt Baker open house materials. Seattle’s plan to turn one of its worst intersections into one of its best just keeps getting better. With the misleadingly-boring name...
View ArticleWatch: KCTS on ‘Fixing’ Rainier Ave
KCTS IN Close covered the city’s work to fix Rainier Ave this week. And though much of the information may not be new to readers of this blog, it’s great to see it explained in such a concise and...
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Summer Parkways kicks off with huge Rainier Valley event Saturday
Summer Parkways 2016 kicks off with what is shaping up to be one of the biggest open streets events in recent Seattle history. Head down to Rainier Valley from 12:30 to 4:30 Saturday afternoon for...
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Judkins Park Station is a golden opportunity to improve Rainier Ave, I-90...
Concept image facing west from the I-90 Trail at 23rd Ave. The bike cage is located behind the station name. The design for Judkins Park Station is getting closer to final, and Sound Transit wants...
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