Category Archives: Transportation

Land Use/Zoning, Transportation, Walkability

Holman Rd/15th Ave NW Median Survey

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Please take the survey

The Crown Hill Neighborhood Association and the Crown Hill Business Association would like your input on a project to design a series of planted medians for a section of the Holman Road / 15th Ave corridor. CHNA and CHBA are working with a team of students from the University of Washington’s Community, Environment, and Planning Program, who plan to have some graphic images and maps ready for us all to review at a community meeting in December. For this project to accurately reflect the needs of Crown Hill residents we need as much of your feedback as possible. The survey can be accessed here. (The survey will open in a new window and is hosted by http://surveymonkey.com)

Far from being merely an academic exercise, it is our hope that together we can create a design that will actually be implemented. The Holman Road / 15th Ave corridor is a dominant feature in our community, and improvements to the corridor have the potential to make our neighborhood safer for both drivers and pedestrians, nicer looking and greener. More information about the project will be sent out in the next few weeks.

Events, Sustainability, Transportation, Walkability

Health, Equity, & Transportation Forum

Health, Equity, & Transportation Forum

Wednesday, May 26th, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Yesler Community Center
917 E Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98122

This forum considers the impact transportation choices have on communities from a health and equity perspective. Moderated by C.R. Douglas, a panel of community members will discuss questions such as:

  • What do you see in your own neighborhood that makes you walk, bike, ride transit?
  • How do peoples’ neighborhoods/built environment affect their health?
  • How are different people affected differently? Why is this?
  • What does the future look like, if we do it “right”?

Panelists include:

  • Jen Cole is the director of the Safe Routes to School Program at Feet First. Safe Routes to School programs aim to increase the number of students walking and biking to school safely.
  • Dr. Ben Danielson is a pediatrician at Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic. Located in Seattle’s Central District, the clinic provides medical, dental and mental health care under one roof to all families regardless of their ability to pay.
  • Ed Ewing is the director of the Major Taylor Project at the Cascade Bicycle Club, which has the mission of creating a multicultural bicycling community where teenagers have equal opportunity to spend time outdoors and on a bicycle.
  • Carla Saulter, “Bus Chick”, blogs for www.seattlepi.com. Carla is a third-generation Seattleite (on her dad’s side) and is one of a growing number of Seattleites who have chosen to live without a car. She takes the bus everywhere she goes.
  • Anne Vernez Moudon, Dr. es Sc., Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. She also directs the Urban Form Lab, which studies neighborhood and street design, non-motorized transportation, and physical activity.