Month: July 2019

Fauntleroy Boulevard – a start at last

From the good news department:
Short-term improvements on the long-delayed Fauntleroy Boulevard Project are starting soon. Work includes good intersection safety improvements for people on bikes and on foot, especially at SW Alaska/Fauntleroy and at 36th/Avalon/Fauntleroy.

Vision Zero? or Mirage Zero?

Deaths and serious injuries in cars, on bikes and on foot for first six months of 2019 are at highest level since 2010.

This is what is wrong with substituting sloganeering and speeches for funding and action.

We know what to, and where to do it. Where action has been taken, speeding and crash rates have gone down in a big way. Rainier Ave S from S Alaska to S Kenny is a good example.

Slogans are not enough.  Feel good speeches are not enough. Well-conceived plans are not enough. It takes funding and follow through to implement the bicycle and pedestrian master plans and the safety corridor plans.

See report by Michelle Baruchman in Seattle Times Traffic Lab.

 

Delridge Triangle wants you

Friends of the Delridge Triangle say, “South Delridge is in desperate need of improving the layout of this public space to allow children to play, neighbors to connect and for the community to thrive.”

This community-led project to transform the the triangle  now has design concepts. They want community input. Want a play street? A crosswalk? Places to sit and chat? How about a bike rack? Got 5 minutes for a survey?

They are inviting input now with the survey. They also invte ongoing participation. This looks like a great project, aligned with our goals of creating safe and lively neighborhood places, connected by safe biking and walking routes for all ages and abilities.
This site is a block off of the Delridge-Highland Park Neighborhood Greenway, on 17th. Linkage on Barton would be good, too.