The intent of the pedestrian portion of the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) is to create design guidelines for increasing pedestrian friendliness. With greater numbers of Redmond residents walking regularly, pedestrian friendliness becomes an important part of overall city design. The pedestrian portion of the TMP, which details many characteristics of walking environments, is now available online as the Pedestrian Program Plan. Classifying Walking Environments
The Pedestrian Program Plan classifies walking environments according to the degree of pedestrian friendliness:
| Pedestrian Place These are areas where people gather, such as outdoor seating, a water feature, or pedestrian-oriented shopping. |
| Pedestrian Supportive These are safe environments for walking, where sidewalks are continuous and buffered from the street. |
| Pedestrian Tolerant These are areas and corridors where walking is technically safe, but land use patterns discourage walking. |
| Pedestrian Intolerant These are areas where walking is unsafe and unattractive, such as near freeway corridors, industrial, or undeveloped areas. |
Sidewalk Design
The design of sidewalks has a direct impact on pedestrian friendliness. Buffers, sidewalk width, and setback of adjacent land all impact the level of pedestrian friendliness:
Through the use of policies that impact street, sidewalk, and setback designs, the City of Redmond will systematically work to eliminate all Pedestrian Intolerant environments within public street rights-of-way. The goal is to create Pedestrian Supportive infrastructure wherever practical and feasible.
Other Blog Postings on Community Studies
Here’s a list of other Redmond Library blog postings on community studies:
| Engage: Redmond Library 2009 Community Study |
| Communities Count 2008: Social & Health Indicators Across King County |
| Sound Transit’s Plans for Redmond |
| Redmond Community Indicators 2008 |
The featured book is Forgetfullness by Ward Just. Forgetfullness is Ward’s fifteenth novel. His previous literary accomplishments include Echo House, a National Book Award finalist, and An Unfinished Season, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Forgetfulness is a thoughtful novel intertwining questions of justice, mercy, friendship, and patriotism into a strong and meaningful story.
The Sustainable Futures Book Club is a monthly meeting for those who are concerned with issues relating to the environment and sustainability. Each month the group centers their conversation around a single book, author, or topic. In August the group will discuss any book by Brian Swimme (including A Walk Through Time, co-authored by Swimme.)
The featured book is Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb. Sweetness in the Belly is the story of what happens to a young Irish girl abandoned in Morocco when she loses her parents. Alone in the world, her search for home and family takes her down some surprising paths.
The Sammamish River Trail runs 10.9 miles along the Sammamish River from Marymoor Park in Redmond to Bothell as part of the 
Now through August 10th, the 
Professor Brumfield's work documents the history of Russian architecture, primarily but not exclusively ecclesiastical, through color and black-and-white photographs made over the last thirty three years.
Bestselling author J.A. Jance discusses her latest work, Damage Control, at two KCLS branch libraries: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2pm at the 
After teaching in high school English in Tucson for two and working as a K-12 librarian on an Indian reservation for five, she went on to spend the next ten years in the life insurance industry before finally turning her hand to writing full time in the early 1980s.
The Redmond Library will host a video filming event for teens on Friday, July 18th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. You can use the library’s camera for filming and a laptop for editing so you can create an entry for the KCLS Read.Flip.Win video book review contest. You must sign-up in advance to use the camera and laptop. For more information contact Amanda, Teen Services Librarian, or call 425-885-1861. 
The Read.Flip.Win video book review contest is open to teens 13 to 18 years old. Shoot a short video (up to 3 minutes long) and post it to your YouTube account. Click 
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The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the most magnificent manuscripts of the early Middle Ages, was written and decorated by the monk Eadfrith at the end of the 7th century. The book was decorated with jewels and precious metals later in the 8th century by Billfrith the Anchorite. The translation of the Latin text of the Gospels is the earliest surviving example of Gospel text in any form of the English language.
The 2008 One Book, One Redmond, One Summer reading celebration is coordinated by the Redmond Library. This year's selection is the 2007 National Book Award Winner in Young People's Literature, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. 
An award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie was named one of 
The Redmond Library will be announcing a series of events related to the 2008 One Book reading celebration. These events include a visit by Ellen Forney, who illustrated The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. For more information on 2008 One Book, visit 