Beacon Hill Safe Streets

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Remember to #Vote! You should have your ballots by now! We have adopted a position of Yes on Prop 1 which will help fund the rest of the Beacon Hill Safety & Bike project! Let's serve all of Beacon Hill! #seattle #bike #walk #transit

Well I guess not all because the next one didn't have them, maybe soon. 😕

Free face masks are seemingly back in stock (or at least some of them) on King County Metro buses! They tend to stock these during the fall and winter months now. #transit #health #safety 🚎😷🍂❄️

@GordonWerner @SoundTransit It was literally installed like that :+/

Hey there @SoundTransit Symphony Station. Angle Lake platform, closest to Exit C escalator/stairs. Next train sign malfunctioning

Thanks to everyone that cleared the overgrowth from this sidewalk used by a John Muir walking school bus this morning!

Great to see that Milk Drunk has made their street seating permanent! 🍦🪑😋🌳 #Cafestreets

@crzyazn4ever @Spacecage1 Young kids and people with disabilities frequently do use or ride on bicycles, with that said, not every mode is for everything all the time. Many of our members change modes as needed, such as when helping a relative. The changes to 15th are making them safer for everyone.

@Spacecage1 @BHSafeStreets Until you can figure out how handicap people and young kids can be easily/safely transported by bike, then we can agree on removing parking on a highly residential street and making them walk blocks across the same road that’s so “dangerous for bikers” 👌🏼

Construction on the Beacon Hill Safety Project on 15th Ave seems to be starting as soon as July 22nd! 🎉🎉🎉

@crzyazn4ever @Spacecage1 People bike to get where they need to go as well, like work, stores, entertainment, etc. most riders you are M-F are biking with a non recreational purpose. Recreation, and getting to it, should also be safe though.

@Spacecage1 @BHSafeStreets Yeah it does bc public transportation sucks and people still need to drive to get to work, and when your neighbor is handicap and needs accessible parking by their home 🤷🏻 Recreational biking ease does NOT take precedence over that. You can ride a bike around the lake for fun.

@crzyazn4ever SDOT did give a reason, primarily a single bike lane on 15th with protection would necessitate the need to remove parking anyway to keep a NB & SB General lane, so your suggestion would reduce parking *further* then just removing it from the one street.

@BHSafeStreets Better road designs to share bike lanes and parking available. The city was lazy & didn’t want to spend the money to do it the RIGHT way. 1 NB bike lane on 14th & 1 SB lane on 15th was suggested to balance the parking burden, yet SDOT declined without a valid reason 🤷🏻#FAIL

@crzyazn4ever This just sounds like made up numbers or some kind of error in the data collection, disabled people can also use cycles as well. There will be some change to people's patterns but most homes also have onsite parking. I do wonder if more loading zones could also help.

@BHSafeStreets My neighbors & I used security cams to track # of bikers who go through each day, not enough to justify uprooting the neighborhoods’ residents including handicap folks who now have to park many streets over & carry groceries home for 10 bikers’ convenience. Bad city planning.

@crzyazn4ever Given the number of homes on the block, it's most certainly not "99%" but regardless and going to and from parks/trails should be safe as well as traversing the neighborhood. Also people don't cross a river where there is no bridge.

@BHSafeStreets Yes but the far fewer “Bikers” not from the neighborhood shouldn’t decide the needs of the whole neighborhood. 99% of my immediate neighbors bike around the neighborhood almost never. Most of the time they are taking them to parks, trails, etc.

It's raining so it's a bus day today for me! 🚎

@CascadianKovnik Take a look at the set of photos, getting to the MTS is part of the blockage 🫠

@BHSafeStreets Mountains to Sound trail to the 17th Ave greenway might be the way to go until construction finishes. A little down then up but the uphill isn't as bad as you first think.

That commute up the Joze Rizal and down 15th was an absolute obstacle course tonight and construction has barely begun like wtf 🫠 #seattle #seabikes

Like, this is a lot of signs on bike lanes including one ironically saying "BIKE LANE CLOSED AHEAD" that is... blocking the bike lane @seattledot I think we can do better. #seattle #seabikes

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