Promote
Smart
Mobility
We will improve mobility by promoting transportation
choices that make our neighborhoods safer and healthier
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Goals
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2004 Actions
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- Create and aggressively support alternatives to personal vehicle
use
- Make Seattle the most bike- and pedestrian- friendly city in the
country
- Encourage use of sustainable design and construction practices
for major transportation infrastructure improvements
- Reduce air pollution and fuel consumption by improving traffic
flow efficiency
- Price and manage parking to support healthy business districts,
public transportation, and traffic flow
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- Foster transit-, bike-, and pedestrian friendly neighborhoods
(e.g. South Lake Union, Center City, Northgate)
- Work with King County Metro to increase bus service in Seattle
- Actively support light rail, monorail, and the South Lake Union
streetcar
- Continue One Less Car Challenge
- Continue to improve pedestrian and bicycle access and safety (e.g.
sidewalks)
- Optimize 150 traffic signals
- Install additional parking meters and pay stations downtown
- Use and promote biodiesel and ultra low sulfur diesel
- Evaluate use of proximate commute program to match City employees
with closer-to-home work sites
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Motor vehicles are the primary source of air
pollution in the central
Puget Sound
region. About 60 percent of
the region’s emissions of the greenhouse gases that accelerate global
warming come from tailpipes, and about 70 percent of the toxic air pollution
is from diesel emissions from trucks, buses, ships, and other sources.
The City’s efforts to promote “smart mobility” fall into three
broad categories: 1) growth management strategies that result in more people
living closer to their jobs, services, and amenities – so they are
less-dependent on car travel; 2) transportation demand management (TDM)
programs; and 3) major investments in transportation system improvements, such
as bicycle trails and the monorail.
Mobility is "the number one environmental challenge facing our
city and region. In addition to wrecking havoc on our economy and our
mental health" Mayor Nickels
Links
Agenda
Brochure
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Brochure (PDF 205.9 KB)
Agenda
Summary
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Summary (PDF 73.9 KB)
Complete
Agenda
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Targets & Indicators (PDF
213.1 KB)
Transportation
Bicycle
Advisory Board - Seattle
Bicycle
program - Seattle Transportation
Bicycling
guide map request form - Seattle Transportation
Car
Cost Worksheet - Seattle Transportation
Commute
trip reduction program - Seattle Transportation
Pedestrian
Advisory Board - Seattle
"One Less Car"
challenge - Seattle Transportation
Pedestrian
program - Seattle Transportation
Way
to Go Seattle - Seattle Transportation
Seattle
Monorail Project
Sound
Transit
Feet
First
Cascade
Bicycling Club
Transportation
Choices
