Recently, I proposed a streetcar line down Montlake Boulevard and Sand Point Way as a cheaper alternative to underground light rail expansion through Northeast Seattle. Bus rapid transit (BRT) offers another alternative, and one that could easily extend farther south. My BRT proposal essentially upgrades Route 48 — which operates from
This 45th Street redesign would add protected bike lanes and put people rather than cars first. Seattle’s NE 45th Street has long served as a highway collector for North Seattle drivers. Cutting through Wallingford to the west of I-5 and the University District to the east, the road serves
A tram line along Sand Point Way could speed up transit connections in Northeast Seattle and loosen the apartment bans blanketing much of the area. In the past two hundred years, industrial capitalism has altered the earth’s climate in ways only nature had previously been capable of, and at
‘Streetcar’ seems to be a dirty word in Seattle. In January, I proposed my own redesign of NE 65th St to the city, which received overwhelming support from Seattle’s bike and car communities alike–the Seattle Bike Blog went so far as to declare my design better than the
Editor’s note: Last week, Seattle Bike Blog interviewed Joe Mangan regarding his proposal to re-envision NE 65th St and surrounding streets near Roosevelt High School. This article provides a deeper look into his proposal to give the streets a true Vision Zero treatment. Between 2013 and 2016, sixty-eight people