A ghost bike marks the spot where Brian Fairbrother fell down the stairs while riding his bike along Fairview Avenue. A warning sign now alerts cyclists to the presence of stairs.
Update:
The Mayor's Office announced that the Mayor's Road Safety Summit's first meeting will be held on October 24.
The mayor and Seattle City Councilmembers will meet with agencies, community members, partners and other leaders to discuss safety and responsibility on Seattle streets.
"Working together, we will develop a shared citywide commitment to safety and develop an action plan that will lead to safer streets for all," Mayor Mike McGinn wrote on his blog.
This will be the first of three summit meetings. These meetings will result in a final list of commitments for safety that will be carried out by an extended network of people who care about road safety in Seattle.
In the weeks leading up to this first meeting, McGinn will be asking for ideas from the public.
"We want to hear your views on how we can work together to create safer conditions," he stated.
The meeting will be held on the evening of Monday, October 24, in the Bertha Knight Landes Room of City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue. (The exact time has yet to be released).
Original article:
In response to the recent bicycle fatalities in Seattle, Mayor Mike McGinn has been working with members of the City Council to convene a Road Safety Summit of community leaders, experts, elected officials, and others to determine how to encourage shared responsibility on Seattle city streets.
Over the next two weeks, Mayor McGinn and several Councilmembers will be calling on leaders in Seattle to participate in an effort to collectively examine what can be done to help people get where they’re going safely — whether they choose to travel by car, by foot, bike or transit.
"A transportation system with no traffic fatalities or serious injuries, where all users share responsibility for their safety and that of others they encounter in their travels. Can we do it? As a community we must try," Mayor Mike McGinn said in a blog post.
Over the course of three meetings, the Road Safety Summit will bring together a broad cross section of stakeholders — roadway users, major employers, advocates, and community leaders — to do two things:
1. Create a shared citywide commitment to safety on our streets.
2. Develop concrete next steps each stakeholder group will own in service to safer streets for all.
"As I talked about in my previous blog post, finding fault with each other won’t help us solve the problem. But I do believe this Road Safety Summit can help us find common ground and identify innovative efforts that we as a whole city can get behind," McGinn said.
