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Every year, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staff meets with UW faculty and students to set up guided research projects and classes.
In the fall of 2014, we worked with Urban Design & Planning Instructor Megan Horst to help develop a UW Studio class focused on behavior change that would lead to more walking and biking at UW. …
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January 6, 2015
Language is powerful.
The language we use everyday has the ability to change how people think about the world. Our ideas about reframing the language of traffic violence are starting to take root nationally!
Still, many news media outlets and even cities still call preventable crashes "accidents." By doing so, it frames traffic deaths as unavoidable byproducts of our transportation system. …
A glorious summer day in Wallingford. (And my front yard!)
I love Seattle. I love touching the water, seeing our mountains, our year-round growing season. My parsley and kale are still tenaciously holding on. I love how people identify their neighborhoods with a fierce pride—Alki, Licton Springs, Ballard, Beacon Hill.
We live in a beautiful place where we can sense how we belong to the earth. In three years, Seattle …
Dongho's design makes it easier and much cheaper to extend a curb
Cheap, effective, easy, these new curb extensions are ready to make Seattle streets safer! Dongho Chang is a safe streets innovator!
Honorable Mentions are also in order for the project, program, or idea that pushes the leading edge of safe streets in Seattle:
City Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang accepts the Outstanding New Infrastructure Award for the 2nd Avenue Protected Bike Lane
A big thank you to everyone who made the 2nd Avenue Protected Bike Lane a reality, including Mayor Ed Murray, Scott Kubly, Dongho Chang, Kristen Simpson, Sandra Woods, the SDOT construction team, and the SDOT walk/bike team.
Honorable Mentions are also in order for the most outstanding all ages and abilities friendly …
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