{"id":463,"date":"2012-03-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2012\/03\/15\/seattle-neighborhood-greenways-ride-and-upcoming-talk-with-the-seattle-deparment-of-transportation\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:30:00","slug":"seattle-neighborhood-greenways-ride-and-upcoming-talk-with-the-seattle-deparment-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/15\/seattle-neighborhood-greenways-ride-and-upcoming-talk-with-the-seattle-deparment-of-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Ride and Upcoming talk with the Seattle Deparment of Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;\">In capitalizing on all the bike related events about town last weekend, and to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Seattle Councilmember Sally Bagshaw\u2019s first experience riding on greenways in Portland, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways organizers (of which I am one) organized a ride with Sally, Elly Blue, Seattle Department of Transportation employees and Steve Durant of Alta Planning and Design around the proposed Ballard Greenway routes.\u00a0 Councilman Tom Rasmussen joined for the recap at Grumpy D\u2019s, and a much needed respite from the wind and cold.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-crtQIkW5a9o\/T1_WUp6fa4I\/AAAAAAAAAHQ\/EeP_H6CeVoM\/s1600\/Stenciling+in+the+wind.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-crtQIkW5a9o\/T1_WUp6fa4I\/AAAAAAAAAHQ\/EeP_H6CeVoM\/s320\/Stenciling+in+the+wind.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;\">Here we are stenciling at 8:30 on Sunday morning.\u00a0 We were really excited for Elly to ride with us! Who is Elly Blue, you ask?\u00a0 She writes about bicycle transportation <a href=\"http:\/\/takingthelane.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and her work has appeared in Grist, Bitch, BikePortland and elsewhere.\u00a0 In addition she addresses issues of gender and sexuality in biking.\u00a0 She spoke at Cascade Bicycle Club\u2019s Bike Expo, but was gracious in sharing her last afternoon in Seattle with us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PPUyHYHe28A\/T1_WsLp69aI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/-BFOUwTG18M\/s1600\/Chilly+with+Elly.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PPUyHYHe28A\/T1_WsLp69aI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/-BFOUwTG18M\/s320\/Chilly+with+Elly.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;\">Our recap looks serious, but I think we were just thawing out still!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-xHje36ATWdc\/T1_W4bQkR7I\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/vje6eqF3fCk\/s1600\/Grumpy+D%27s+recap.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-xHje36ATWdc\/T1_W4bQkR7I\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/vje6eqF3fCk\/s320\/Grumpy+D%27s+recap.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;\"> <\/span><br \/><span>Also, mark your calendars for <b>March 22nd<\/b>!\u00a0 Seattle Greenways has organized a talk with Seattle Department of Transportation Director Peter Hahn, and newcomer Chief Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang.\u00a0 J<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;\">oin us for this opportunity to meet and personally thank Peter for creating a legacy of safer and more livable streets for our City \u2014 and to start a conversation with Peter and Dongho about how we can best leverage our community expertise and grassroots energy (which now spans hundreds of volunteers working across 13 neighborhoods!).\u00a0 Potluck is at 6:30 at Phinney  Neighborhood Center.\u00a0 More information is on the Seattle Neighborhood Greenways <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/334075249961854\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In capitalizing on all the bike related events about town last weekend, and to celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,11,33,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-infrastructure-wa","category-seattle-king-county-wa","category-sustainable-living","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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