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Posted on 07/13/2012 | Leave a comment

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We need you next week at the 520 meeting!

Posted on 07/12/2012 | 2 comments

 

Next week is the last Community Design Process public meeting for the 520 bridge project. We need your help to ensure that the project links our communities together with high-quality and family-friendly pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. If done poorly, this massive construction project could make it even more difficult for people ages 8-80 to get around on foot or on bike. Our largest ask of WSDOT is the continuation of the multi-use trail from Montlake to Roanoake. Building this trail will better connect all of the surrounding neighborhoods and the region.

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Last Friday’s Muffins on Melrose!

Posted on 07/08/2012 | 1 comment

From Melrose Promenade:

“On Friday morning, we greeted morning commuters at the corner of Melrose and Denny with free muffins, coffee, and conversation at our second Muffins on Melrose event.  Thank you to the dozens of community members who stopped by our table to learn more about our vision for the Melrose Promenade, and especially for all your encouragement and helpful advice.  Thank you also to our volunteers who helped make the event a success!

Interesting fact: We counted more than 400 pedestrians and bicyclists passing through the intersection of Melrose and Denny between 8am and 9:30am.  (Our friends at SDOT, did you hear that?)  Who ever said Seattle couldn’t be a walking and biking sort of town?”

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Next Friday: Muffins on Melrose!

Posted on 07/02/2012 | Leave a comment

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Last Chance to Fill Out SDOT’s Bike Master Plan Update Survey is on July 3rd!

Posted on 06/29/2012 | Leave a comment

Your last chance to fill out SDOT’s survey for the 2012 Bike Master Plan update is quickly coming up! On July 3rd, SDOT will stop accepting survey responses from the community so that they can start analyzing the data for use in the update. If you’ve been waiting to fill out the survey, now is the time! Your response helps shape the priorities that will go into the Bike Master Plan update and that, in turn, will shape what gets built in the coming years. Even if you do not currently bike in Seattle (but would like to), your response to the survey can help make neighborhood greenways a priority for the city.

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New Community Connections with the 520 Replacement Project

Posted on 06/16/2012 | Leave a comment

Last night, several members of Central Seattle Greenways and other Seattle Neighborhood Greenways groups attended a meeting in the Montlake Community Center on the Portage Bay Bridge section of the 520 bridge replacement program. We checked in with WSDOT to see what changes will be coming to our inter-neighborhood connections at the north end of Capitol Hill, and provide feedback on their proposals for active transportation facilities on the 520 lids and the Portage Bay Bridge.

Overview of Delmar Lid and the Area

As a greenways advocate, three connections stood out as being especially important in the new renderings and designs of the Roanoke area and the Delmar Lid, which will be between 10th Avenue East and Delmar Drive East. A bike/pedestrian connection on the Portage Bay Bridge, a new connection between Delmar Drive East and Boyer Ave E, and a link over I-5 on E Roanoke.

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Wish You Were Here: Muffins on Melrose

Posted on 06/01/2012 | 1 comment

This morning was the very first Muffins on Melrose! Volunteers from Central Seattle Greenways and the Melrose Promenade Project came down to meet with joggers, dog walkers, and cyclists over free coffee and muffins between 7:00am and 9:00am today at the south end of the Melrose Trail.

We had a good turnout for a slightly overcast day and great feedback from the people who stopped to grab a blueberry muffin or cup of coffee with us. Muffins on Melrose will be back next month, July 6th, but you don’t have to wait that long to get involved with the Melrose Promenade: We have our first Melrose Promenade Community Cleanup next week, on June 10th! Sign-in starts at 10:15am at Melrose Ave E and E Republican.

Hope to see you there!

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Our first Muffins on Melrose is this Friday!

Posted on 05/30/2012 | 3 comments

 

Join us on June 1st for Muffins on Melrose!Like Muffins? Want a better Melrose? Join us for our very first Muffins on Melrose this Friday! At our Muffins on Melrose event, we will greet our neighbors on their morning commutes with pastries and coffee, and chat with them about the Melrose Promenade project.  We will be stationed on the Melrose Trail connecting Melrose Avenue East and Lakeview Boulevard East from 7am – 9am on Friday, June 1.  Please let us know if you would like to join us this Friday and help spread the word!

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Central Seattle Greenways awarded grant for community events on Melrose

Posted on 05/23/2012 | 2 comments

We are pleased to announce that Central Seattle Greenways has been selected by the City of Seattle to receive a $20,000 Neighborhood Matching Fund grant to support better pedestrian and bike infrastructure on the Hill! This grant will fund improvements and outreach to make the Melrose corridor a more attractive place for people to walk, bike, and even enjoy the view. Known as the Melrose Promenade Project, the grant will support volunteer community cleanups along Melrose and the trail at its northern end; a series of monthly “Muffins on Melrose” events to engage pedestrians and bicyclists about the future of Melrose and the efforts of Central Seattle Greenways over coffee and pastries; and, a community planning and visioning effort focused on the northern end of Melrose, the trail connecting to Lakeview Blvd, and the adjacent park and open spaces.

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Come one, come all!

Posted on 02/24/2012 | Leave a comment

We have two meetings coming up:

Monday February 27th at 6:30 at Cafe Vivace at Brix

We’ll be formulating a proposal for the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Small and Simple Projects Fund.  Think along the lines of projects that demonstrate a capacity to build a stronger and healthier community, and “provide a public benefit and be free and open to all members of the public, and emphasize self-help, with project ideas initiated, planned and implemented by the neighbors and community members who will themselves be impacted by the project.”  To quote the grant guidelines.  Email centralseattlegreenways@gmail.com to RSVP or with questions!

 

March 4 at 2pm (location TBD) for a neighborhood route ride.  Additional information is forthcoming.

As per usual, information is available here, on our FB page and twitter (@CSGreenways).

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