Walking is a major means of transportation, exercise, and community interaction in Seattle. Walking in Seattle was created for all of us walkers in the city.
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“Walking makes us healthier, happier and more connected to our neighbors through spontaneous interactions. All of Seattle could become walkable with an ambitious Comprehensive Plan. We could build a city where everyone could walk to… daily necessities” – at Seattle, WA
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Today, only 44% of Seattleites can walk to basic daily necessities.
We can do better w/an ambtious Seattle Comprehensive Plan that restores neighborhood centers, expands their size, and fills in other walkability gaps by increasing the ability to build. seattletimes.com/opinion/let…
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"In Seattle, pedestrian deaths also rose steadily over the past few years: 14 in 2019, 15 in 2020, 23 in 2021 and 22 in 2022. McKechnie says key factors include city design, time of day, speeding and distracted driving."
"The chances of a person dying when hit by a car going 20 mph is 5%. At 30 mph, it’s 45% and at 40 mph, chances of death are 85%. If struck at 50 mph, there is a 100% chance of death for pedestrians."
Read more about pedestrian safety @CascadePBSNews
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There is no excuse for speeding around a school bus that is unloading children. King County and Seattle need to fix this. – at Seattle, WA
ALT Kids getting off the bus with stop sign on bus visible
For the last year, no one in King County has received a ticket for driving through a school bus stop-paddle. County prosecutors said last August they didn't want to review the auto-enforced tickets anymore. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
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Sickening. A few thoughts:
1) My heart breaks for her family.
2) Why was SPD responding at all to someone who "used too much cocaine?"
3) Does SPD policy allow driving 74 MPH for calls like this?
4) Why are Dexter/Thomas streets designed to allow for this type of deadly speed?
Video Confirms that Officer Was Going 74 MPH, Did Not Have Siren Running When He Struck Pedestrian
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If it were a building, SDCI would have condemned it.
If it were a job site, OSHA would have shut it down.
If it were an airline, the FHWA would have grounded it.
But Aurora is just the most dangerous street, so any safety fix change has to go through the Seattle Process. – at Seattle, WA
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Doing the math, from 2022 to 2023 the length of the weekend closures has been reduced from 60 hours to 32 hours; that is almost a 50% cut in car-free time for a park.
For context, in 2022 the closures went from 7 pm Friday to 7 am Monday
#SEAbikes @seabikeblog @RVGreenways – at Seattle, WA
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“Left turns at traffic lights cause 22% of car-pedestrian crashes in Seattle”
There are a variety of solutions (left turn phase arrow, hardened center lines) to make left turns safer for all, and we need to implement them. – at Seattle, WA
Seattle to pay $6.5M in suit arguing green arrow could have prevented fatal crash seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes
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The latent demand for #accessibleLWB is massive. If we dedicated just half of the street to an accessible and family-friendly trail, this PARK would be the Alki, Burke Gilman, or Green Lake of the south end. seattlegreenways.org/our-pri…
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"We did not beat COVID. We just accepted the economy was more important than the deaths it caused. The same goes for the permitted lawlessness of cars." | @mudede
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Automated enforcement cameras can be an effective tool for traffic safety.
But a new @seattledot analysis raises serious equity concerns that must be addressed before Seattle expands its camera program.
🧵⬇️ on my op-ed with Nura Ahmed in @SoSeaEmerald…
southseattleemerald.com/2023…
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Along Madison where a woman was killed a couple days ago @seattledot has NO DETOUR for peds so people are walking IN TRAFFIC around construction. @Spottnik This is NOT OK! @SNGreenways @CSGreenways
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3 thoughts
#1 My heart goes out to this woman & I hope she makes a speedy recovery
#2 This crosswalk is designated to get major upgrades as part of Thomas St Redefined, which keeps getting delayed
#3 Another reason to move crash response and investigation out of SPD & into SDOT – at Seattle, WA
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This intersection has been the source of too many pedestrian injuries & fatalities. When talking to students at the nearby high school, almost every single one of them had a story about being yelled at by drivers while on a crosswalk or almost getting hit outright. Unacceptable.
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People🚶🏽♀️🧑🏼🦼👩🏻🦯 shouldn’t have to dodge traffic to cross the street only to get soaked trying to wait for the bus on Rainier Ave S
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It’s impossible to look at images of successful holiday markets from around the world and not think that we can do better than moving and storing cars on this street
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😢 🛑 Please watch my narrated 90sec tour of Seattle locations where crashes have caused death or serious injury to pedestrians since 2004. Thank you @BFRyback for creating this visualization tool 🚶♀️