New Safe, Healthy, Active Streets process lets cities request temporary reallocation of state route lane space for socially distanced walking, rolling, & commerce: wsdot.wa.gov/news/2020/07/0. #WSDOTactive #CovidStreets
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Resource if you're considering roadway reallocation to create space for active transportation + public use: guide Streets for Pandemic Response/Recovery nacto.org/streets-for-pa. #CovidStreets
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Cool animation from gives you an idea of how a street can provide for more safe, socially distanced human activity youtube.com/watch?v=j0onoN. #CovidStreets #infrastructure
City of Pullman started working w/ on Main Street/SR240 reconfiguration before we established the Safe Healthy Active Streets process. They're taking comments on how it's working for people: pullman-wa.gov/government/dep. #WSDOTactive
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Just got sent pix of parklet spots going in on SR14 in Bingen. Temporary fencing, orange traffic diverters, no effect on thru traffic. Looking forward to seeing what other communities might do to make use of pieces of Main Streets that happen to be highways. #CovidStreets
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Going to drop some of the articles about the WSDOT Safe Healthy Active Streets process into this thread. Community-led, based on local needs/context, designed to make sure everyone can get where they need to go while we try to support health + economic recovery. #WSDOTactive
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“We know pedestrians buy things. Cars don’t buy things,” Pullman City Council member Brandon Chapman told Oregon Public Broadcasting. “And the merchants can certainly appreciate this. People need to be able to walk around.”
wabikes.org/2020/07/15/cha #WSDOTactive #CovidStreets
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Another piece highlighting the new WSDOT process that lets communities put in temporary spaces to support health, commerce and multimodal traffic: theurbanist.org/2020/07/10/wsd. #WSDOTactive #CovidStreets
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. interviewed me & others for Spokane Public Radio and provided some historical context on a gravel road that became a state highway through Pullman: spokanepublicradio.org/post/take-your. #WSDOTactive #CovidStreets
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2 more ideas for how street space can support community recovery: Playstreets inquirer.com/things-to-do/p and schools nytimes.com/2020/07/10/opi. #CovidStreets
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WSDOT blog piece on WA towns making use of our Safe, Healthy, and Active Streets Program: wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/reallo. So far: , Bingen (not the one in Germany), White Salmon, and . Is your town next? #WSDOTactive #COVIDStreets
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Correction: is talking w/WSDOT NW Region, needs to finalize traffic control plan before implementing use of some parking lane space in selected areas. #WSDOTactive #COVIDStreets
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Local street changes in WA include Leavenworth's Front Street, which parallels US2 through town ncwlife.com/leavenworths-f. #COVIDStreets
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Coming up this Wed 8/12: + webinar w/state DOTs and our response to COVID19 + Active Transportation: register.gotowebinar.com/register/68251. I'll be presenting on equity analysis/issues, Safe Healthy Active Streets program. #WSDOTactive #COVIDStreets
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I'm going to keep adding to this tweet thread every now and then with #COVIDStreets in Washington state. Some pix from Lake Washington Blvd in Seattle courtesy of + .
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This is open til September 8. Check it out with the whole family! twitter.com/dongho_chang/s…
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It's been fun seeing Main Street fill up as the summer goes on. This is just a random Wednesday afternoon with four restaurants serving and a fitness studio doing a class!
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Got a note from Mayor Betty Barnes of Bingen about their parklets added under WSDOT Safe Healthy Active Streets. She personally talked to businesses before they went for it. Only 1 was concerned about parking. Solution next tweet.... #COVIDStreets
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Bingen restaurants had to sign a agreement that they and their employees will not park on the street. This will actually add more parking spaces than before the parklets. #COVIDStreets
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Ideas for making streatery spaces better: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl. Not "parklets" since a parklet is open to everyone. #COVIDStreets
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I like the sound of "outdoor community dining room," don't you? twitter.com/SoSeaEmerald/s #COVIDStreets
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Local businesses late Friday converted nearly a half block’s worth of South Ferdinand Street into a new outdoor community dining room. southseattleemerald.com/2020/08/15/the
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Sumner added a genuine parklet--you don't have to buy food to sit there, and it also supports restaurant seating: thenewstribune.com/news/local/com by @JosephineTNT in . #COVIDStreets
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Adding to my thread on street space changes in WA state that support humans moving at human speeds and/or engaging in exchange, AKA active transportation + commerce. Shoutout to for photo album of King County Healthy Streets twitter.com/BrockRides/sta. #COVIDStreets
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Replying to @BarbChamberlain @DrTCombs and 5 others
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I'd love to hear from people in WA experiencing streets where some space is now used for restaurants/business. Does that seem to slow drivers going by? Like a sitdown chicane. Looking at image from Columbia City in piece southseattleemerald.com/2020/08/15/the. #COVIDStreets
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"The rollout of so-called pop-up bike lanes during the COVID-19 pandemic is a unique empirical context to estimate the pull effect of new cycling infrastructure. We show that the policy has worked. We find large increases in cycling." pnas.org/content/118/15 #COVIDStreets
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"To serve their residents well, U.S. cities can’t just return to the pre-pandemic norm. They need to come back more resilient, more sustainable, more economically connected, and more equitable." - theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ #COVIDStreets
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Adding to my thread on creative local responses in the #COVIDStreets spirit: What's happening on Ballard Avenue in Seattle via theurbanist.org/2021/05/11/bal.
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From local to global, a tweet from a recent FHWA peer exchange on a visualization of #COVIDStreets around the world.
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Visualization of the various #COVIDStreets actions around the globe: datasketch.github.io/mobility-actio. #PeopleStreets #transportation
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As we head into warmer months it's worth noting that the WSDOT procedure that was new last year isn't new any more, but it's still available to towns wanting to try something on a state routes in their downtown. wsdot.wa.gov/news/2020/07/0 #COVIDStreets #WSDOTactive #PeopleStreets
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Good tweet to drop into my continuing thread on #COVIDStreets, especially those in Washington state.
twitter.com/dismobility/st #MoveEquity #accessibility #PeopleStreets
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“Café streets allow us to begin to dream of all the ways the public right of ways – our streets and sidewalks – can be used for so many other things than just car storage and moving people in cars,” @dismob director @AnnaZivarts capitolhillseattle.com/2021/05/capito
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Continuing to build thread of street change examples in WA. Maybe someday we can stop labeling these #COVIDStreets and just call them #PeopleStreets (term I've been using since at least 2017).
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Bothell’s open street on Main Street has gotten its car diverters spiffed up with art. #openstreets #alfresco twitter.com/cobycycles/sta…
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Nice thread of images from street changes in Seattle courtesy of . twitter.com/blitzurbanism/ #COVIDStreets #PeopleStreets #streateries
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