Starting January 1, there are some new laws for street safety. I’ll summarize most here, but go to SeattleBikeBlog.com (who I am plagiarizing liberally) to read in its entirety. Hopefully these will make Pinehurst streets safer. –Pedestrians: Current law is updated to clarify that a person walking on a roadway without a sidewalk or shoulder […]
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Here is information from a Seattle Police Department brochure titled ‘Pedestrian Safety Program’. The laws that govern what is legal/illegal as they pertain to crossing the street are governed by the Seattle Municipal Code. These are non-criminal infractions that begin with a $46 fine and go up from there. The following are the most common […] When turning left from a side street onto a busy roadway, can you pull into the roadway’s center turn lane and stop, waiting for traffic to clear before merging right to complete the turn? This left-turn maneuver does appear to be legal (see excerpts below). But perhaps the bigger question is, “Should you do it?” […] Today friends and neighbors gathered at NE 115th St & 9th Ave NE to paint an intersection mural. A boy applied for a Find It, Fix It Grant for the mural and it has come to fruition! There was food and paint and fun and only moderately unhealthy air quality from the wildfires. Painted intersections […] Voting is open for 2018 Your Voice Your Choice parks and streets projects. You can help decide where to spend $3 million of the city’s budget. You may vote for three projects per district. We are District 5. There is one project in Victory Heights and three projects in Lake City. Hint, hint. Below is […] Traffic advisory: SDOT is going to be nearly doubling the length of the southbound bus stop on Lake City Way, just south of NE 125th St. Currently, the zone is 65-feet long and can only serve one bus at a time. When there are two coaches that approach the zone, one bus must wait on […] SDOT has updates on some of the planned traffic/pedestrian safety projects in Pinehurst. Namely: * NE 117th / Pinehurst / 15th Ave NE new traffic signal * NE 117th new sidewalk * NE 115th St new sidewalk * 12th Ave NE new sidewalk Come hear the news from SDOT on Wednesday, March 14, 6 – […] Seattle’s People’s Street program is coming back in 2018 for the 4th year. The program supports Seattle neighborhoods to create temporary, pedestrian-only streets by closing off certain city blocks to vehicles and opening them up for, well, for whatever you can think of: a dance, a yoga session, a potluck, a kids’ playtime…. The […] Here is a report of the results of the Find It, Fix It Community Walk we did April 2017. It shows actions that were completed, those in progress, and things they have no plans to do. Read it here. <—Note that because the file is too big to put on WordPress (this blog site), clicking […] Time to submit our ideas for park improvements and pedestrian and street safety feature improvements. Last year Pinehurst benefited from this process and we can do it again this year if we submit ideas and vote for them. Below are some dates for brainstorming project ideas. The more people, the merrier —> […] |
 
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