1. Neighborhood Greenways in the University District Anne Gantt, Kyle Rowe & Eli Goldberg University Greenways

2. Agenda What are Neighborhood Greenways? U-District: why here? Next Steps/Discussion

3. What’s a Neighborhood Greenway? 3 It’s a street with low traffic volume and low traffic speed where people walking, bicycling and who live on the street receive priority.

4. What is a Neighborhood Greenway?

5. Rapid growth in interest

6. Beacon Hill Greenways Phase 1 greenways being built now.

7. Wallingford Greenways Phase 1 greenways completed Phase 2 greenways in planning

8. Laurelhurst Fully funded, plan complete, shovel ready.

9. THE U-DISTRICT?

10. Key U-District walking + bicycling stats Only 37% of working adults in U-District core own a car (Year 2000 US Census) 4500 UW commuters go by bike each day (UW) Thousands of new housing units planned for (or under construction) in the U- District core 12,500 new walking trips a day expected from light rail construction (Sound Transit) 10

11. We need safer walking & biking

12. Community enthusiasm for Greenways! U-District Chamber of Commerce Director UW Transportation Services Low Income Housing Institute University Park Community Club

13. What are we doing? Building community support for safer walking & bicycling: Community route planning workshop Neighborhood walking audits Possible joint charette with DPD Bike Master Plan Update Spreading the word: Street Fair booth

14. Our asks of you Spread the Greenways word. Advocate for safe walking and biking. We would love to speak at your community council meeting!

15. Discussion

16. THANK YOU!

18. The world’s best cycling cities are typically University towns CityBike mode share Groningen (Netherlands)39% Leiden (Netherlands)33% Enschede (Netherlands)31% Muenster (Germany)27% Freiburg (Germany)22% Cambridgeshire (UK)10% Oxfordshire (UK)8% (source: Pucher, John and Buehler, Ralph (2008) ‘Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany’)