We at Beacon Hill Safe Streets are excited to be involved in the planning of a bike route that will allow our community to ride safely from the far north to the southern tip of the long hill we call home…We now write to share feedback to guide continued planning for Segments 2 and 3.
Read MoreCentral Seattle Greenways and Beacon Hill Safe Streets are very excited to see the dedicated bike lanes on 12th Ave S from S King St south across the Jose Rizal Bridge nearing completion! … While progress on these improvements is wonderful to see, it also makes the gap on 12th Ave S between E Yesler Way and S King Street even more apparent.
Read MoreWe support safe, accessible, quality bike lanes on Beacon Hill and we are thrilled this project has launched that could provide this, as well as improve the safety and reliability of our transportation system for those who walk, drive, and use public transport. This letter addresses our group preferences for Segment 1 of the Beacon Hill Bike Route project, from the Jose Rizal Bridge to Spokane Street.
Read MoreTransit is an integral part to how people in Beacon Hill and other Seattle residents get around, particularly in Southeast Seattle. We are greatly concerned that we will lose a significant amount of service hours if something is not done quickly to fix the Seattle Transit Benefit District (STBD).
Read MoreWe are dismayed to learn that the City of Seattle has filed a motion to terminate the Consent Decree Sustainment Plan for the Seattle Police Department (SPD). We do not support the removal of Sustainment Plan. We are in support of the NAACP guidance, not to remove the consent decree.
Read MoreWe are delighted to confirm our collaboration with the PATHSS study (Participatory Active Transportation for Health in South Seattle) PHI pilot grant proposal, led by PI Dr. Katherine Hoerster, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Read MoreBeacon Hill Safe Streets is a community organization focused on making our streets and public spaces safe and welcoming for all. We are writing to express our concern about the City’s encampment removal policies.
Read MoreWe've been working in Beacon Hill since 2011 to improve traffic safety and get traffic calming on the ground through Beacon Hill and Southeast Seattle and will continue to do so. We were previously named Beacon BIKES (“Better Infrastructure Keeping Everyone Safer”) but changed our name years ago to better reflect the pedestrian and transit projects we've supported as well as biking projects.
Read MoreThank you for taking the time to present and listen to our concerns at the March Beacon Hill Safe Streets Meeting. Many of us walk and bike to school, work, and other destinations along this corridor and beyond and are eager for safety improvements. We want to work with SDOT to create a solution that will improve safety for all road and trail users, especially the most vulnerable.
Read MoreWe are excited that the council is pushing to complete the Basic Bike Network. Thank you for your work on this vital safety improvement! It is critical to us that we have safe & connected infrastructure that allow a person (or family!) on bikes to get to destinations all over the Center City.
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