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Renton lays out prioritized sidewalk and walkway plan, flags utility, slope and funding constraints
Summary
Transportation planning staff presented a data-driven walkway/sidewalk prioritization identifying 18 highest-priority segments and 63 additional segments for later phases, emphasizing school-area connectivity and tradeoffs with utility relocation, slopes and environmental mitigation; staff cited Transportation Benefit District funds and grant-readiness as implementation drivers.
Ellen Talgo, Transportation Planning Manager in Renton’s Public Works Department, presented an update to the city’s comprehensive walkway program, describing a data-driven method that ranked streets by connectivity to schools, transit and destinations and by crash history.
Talgo said the plan produced a tiered network of priority segments—18 highest-priority segments and 63 additional priority segments—that staff hope to advance through grant-ready design and Transportation Benefit District (TBD) funding. “We used a data-driven process to prioritize how to infill as much of the missing sidewalk network as possible,” she said.
Why it matters: Council members said sidewalk…
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