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We need you next week at the 520 meeting!
Next week is the last Community Design Process public meeting for the 520 bridge project. We need your help to ensure that the project links our communities together with high-quality and...
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Add your name to our 520 letter!
If you want a bike and pedestrian shared use path on the Portage Bay bridge, add your name to our letter to WSDOT and SDOT! The multi-use trail on the 520 bridge is a new, important link in the...
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What 10 more Feet Gives Us
A new Portage Bay bridge is coming as part of the 520 replacement project. The bridges that we build today will shape how people get around the region and our city for the next 60-75 years. When we...
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We need your help – SR520 Portage Bay Bridge Trail
Is this post a little too long? Check out the shorter, easier to read version here and here! WSDOT needs to hear from us by this Friday – October 5th - about their proposed design preferences for the...
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30 Seconds to Support a Portage Bay Trail!
If you only have 30 seconds to spare please ask WSDOT to do two things (feel free to copy and past, but the strongest comments are those that reflect your own personal views, experience, and values):...
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tl;dr – 5 Minutes to Support the Portage Bay Bridge Multi-Use Trail!
This is the difference between the width of a bridge with and without the bike and pedestrian trail that we support. This is to scale. Yesterday, we posted a monster post that went over the WSDOT’s 520...
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SR-520 Design will discourage walking and biking to the UW and University Link
The new SR-520 will serve as a barrier to people trying to walk and bike from the Montlake area and neighborhoods further south to the University of Washington and the new University Link station. As...
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Bridging the Topographic Fortress with a Trail
As promised in the “SR-520 Design Will Discourage Walking and Biking to the UW and University Link” post, here is some further elaboration on the value of a Portage Bay Bridge Trail. Currently the idea...
View ArticleCity Council Poised to Make New SR 520 Right
Update: The council did not vote on the resolution January 22nd and will instead be voting on February 11th. This Tuesday (January 22nd) at 2:30 PM in the Council Chamber, the 520 Committee of the...
View ArticleCity 520 Resolution Passes! Charts New Course
If you haven’t heard, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a resolution directing the City and WSDOT to work together to fix the SR-520 design flaws for people who walk and bike (see our...
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