{"id":11386,"date":"2015-09-30T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2015-10-01T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:57:47","slug":"walking-and-biking-maps-unsafe-area-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2015\/09\/30\/walking-and-biking-maps-unsafe-area-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking and Biking Maps: Unsafe Area Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">Walkers, bikers: ID imperfections with online mapping tool<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><b>BELLEVUE, Wash. <\/b>\u2013 The city\u2019s Transportation Department is asking the public to identify unsafe conditions or behaviors in Bellevue\u2019s walking and bicycling network. Information gathered through a \u201cwiki\u201d mapping survey will be used to address locations where problems occur. <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapping.com\/wikimap\/bellevuewa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Participate in the survey<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">The online survey, which will be available through Oct. 31, allows users to locate an area of concern on a map, describe and evaluate the issue using a menu of options, choose a potential\u00a0solution, make additional comments, and upload a photo of the location if desired.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">The information\u00a0will be used to design improvements. A broad cross-section of stakeholders and city staff will consider the input and develop action strategies to address locations and corridors where problems frequently occur. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">Mapping where people notice hazardous conditions or behavior is just\u00a0one of the tasks identified in Bellevue\u2019s<span style=\"color: #111111\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuewa.gov\/pedbike-initiative.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\">Pedestrian and Bicycle Implementation Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black\">. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\">The survey tool is meant to help transportation staff design facilities, develop education programs, and deploy enforcement activities to address safety issues.<span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0I<\/span>t is not intended to replace the city\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuewa.gov\/mybellevue.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MyBellevue<\/a> mobile app and portal, which is used to report maintenance issues such as potholes, and to request\u00a0services. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapping.com\/wikimap\/bellevuewa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Participate in the survey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0today and help make the City of Bellevue a safer place to bike and walk, or check out our volunteer page to see other ways you can get involved with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Implementation Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walkers, bikers: ID imperfections with online mapping tool \u00a0BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2013 The city\u2019s Transportation Department is asking the public to identify unsafe conditions or behaviors in Bellevue\u2019s walking and bicycling network. Information gathered through a \u201cwiki\u201d mapping survey will be used to address locations where problems occur. Participate in the survey. \u00a0 The online survey, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2015\/09\/30\/walking-and-biking-maps-unsafe-area-database\/\">...more about Walking and Biking Maps: Unsafe Area Database<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-transportation","category-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}