Vision Zero

Portland Adopts Vision Zero Action Plan

Last week the city council of Portland, Oregon signed on to the Vision Zero action plan that has been developed by the Portland Bureau of...

Making Vision Zero Real

One morning in early May of this year, shortly before leaving for work, I checked my Twitter account and learned that police activity had...

Remembering Those Lost To Traffic Violence

In 2015, over 35,000 people in the US were killed on our nation's roadways. This was the largest percentage increase over the previous year...

SDOT To Reprioritize Traffic Light Replacement

When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced the end of an eight-year study on traffic collision data, it had a very comprehensive set...

Sunday Video: Safe Streets Are Great For Business

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways talks to a local Roosevelt business owner to see how safer streets make business better. https://youtu.be/n7bRWxlhSxU

Streets In Seattle Are Getting A Little Calmer

Most streets in Seattle officially had 5 mph knocked off from their speed limits yesterday. Non-arterial streets dropped from 25 mph to 20 mph and...

Creating Seattle’s Superblocks, Part 1

Often when an idea comes along that the urban planning world finds intriguing, there's a race for other cities to try out that idea....

A Stroad Grows in Lynnwood: 196th St SW

Lynnwood is on a path toward disaster with its latest stroad designs for 196th St SW, a road bisecting the city's regional growth center near...