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Author Archives: Ryan Packer
Your Voice, Your Choice program to spend 2021 catching up
For a second year in a row, the Your Voice, Your Choice participatory budgeting program that awards funds for small street and park improvement projects will not be conducting any process to fund new projects in 2021. Last week the … Continue reading
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After years of delay, improvements coming to 15th Ave S & S Columbian Way intersection
Later this year, the Seattle Department of Transportation is set to complete improvements that will make it easier to bike through one of Beacon Hill’s trickiest intersections. The changes planned at 15th Ave S and S Columbian Way come three … Continue reading
Georgetown residents push to get a downtown bike connection back into plans
A group of community leaders and residents of the Georgetown neighborhood have sent a letter this week to SDOT Director Sam Zimbabwe asking the department to “re-engage” on the issue of creating a dedicated bicycle connection between the neighborhood and … Continue reading
King County expected to examine helmet law as Cascade Bicycle Club supports repeal UPDATED
Correction: the data compiled by Ethan Campbell of Central Seattle Greenways has been updated after further analysis of the citations issued revealed a number of duplicates. The overall summary of the information has not significantly changed. The King County Board … Continue reading
What’s the deal with BIRT? A conversation
Last fall, SDOT released a report on the future of transportation in the vicinity of Interbay and Ballard. The result, the Ballard-Interbay Regional Transportation System (BIRT) report, focused on the big topics of what to do about the Magnolia and … Continue reading
Green Lake Keep Moving Street to shrink by half as southbound lane reopens
As early as next week, the Keep Moving Street in place on a portion of West Green Lake Way N, allowing space for people to more comfortably walk, bike, and roll apart from vehicles, will shrink by half as the … Continue reading
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Report details how much catching up Seattle has to do in 2021 on bike lanes
A report completed by the Seattle Department of Transportation in December but not released until this week shows how much catching up the department is planning to do in 2021 to complete installing bike facilities that it had originally planned … Continue reading
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Watch SDOT’s virtual tour of the Duwamish Trail connection & crossing improvements
The Seattle Department of Transportation continues outreach around its proposal to finally connect the last segment of the Duwamish Trail between the West Seattle Bridge and the separated trail that starts a half mile down West Marginal Way SW. A … Continue reading
Segment of Lake Washington Boulevard to reopen for Winter, Spring breaks UPDATED
Update: due to the anticipated snow event this weekend, the closure of Lake Washington Boulevard outlined below has been postponed to Monday February 15. It will run through Sunday the 21st as planned. A stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard just … Continue reading
Watch out! Speed bumps added to Roosevelt Way bike lane near 43rd. UPDATE 2/5: They’re gone
UPDATE (2/5, 1:45 p.m.): The bumps are gone. Bump be gone! pic.twitter.com/bcRYUKoHSM — G Hall (@MattGHall) February 5, 2021 UPDATE (2/5): The speed bumps will be removed. This morning we received an update from SDOT’s Ethan Bergerson: I want to … Continue reading
4th Ave protected bike lane downtown to be extended this Spring
This week SDOT told the Bicycle Advisory Board that an extension of the 4th Avenue protected bike lane downtown, to both the north and the south, is moving forward with construction planned for this Spring. With those extensions, the entire … Continue reading
Stay Healthy Streets program may be paused if funding swap not approved
Last night the oversight committee for the Move Seattle levy was told that the popular Stay Healthy Streets program will likely have to pause if the Seattle Department of Transportation doesn’t get approval to divert funding from 2.5 miles of … Continue reading
Senate chair’s transportation package includes bike tax, less in multimodal investments
A week after the Washington House Democrats unveiled their proposed transportation package, which would fund bike, pedestrian, and transit programs at a level never before seen from the state, the chair of the state Senate’s transportation committee, Steve Hobbs, unveiled … Continue reading
Proposed modal integration policy would dismantle the Bicycle Master Plan
Seattle’s Complete Streets ordinance turns 14 years old this year. Since becoming one of the first major American cities to codify in city law the idea that all major transportation improvements should include accommodations for all types of street users, … Continue reading
Trail Alert: 520 underpass in Montlake closed for two more weekends UPDATED
UPDATE: the closure planned for February 5-8 is no longer happening due to a change in work. The highway will be closed but the pedestrian and bike trail will remain open. The next trail closures are February 26-March 1 and … Continue reading
Seattle continues to stagnate on preventing traffic deaths even as total collisions plummet
Preliminary data on traffic collisions from last year shows that the total number of collisions involving people on bikes in Seattle was down by more than 50% compared to the average of the three previous years. This follows the trend … Continue reading
Local groups speak up in favor of protected bike lane on West Marginal Way
The plan to finally connect the Duwamish Trail by installing a protected bike lane along the west side of West Marginal Way SW continues to face an uncertain future, as SDOT continues to conduct outreach before a final decision is … Continue reading
Quietly open: the first phase of the Central Ridge Greenway
City crews are putting the finishing touches this week on a new Neighborhood Greenway on 18th Avenue in the Central District, the first phase in the long-planned Central Ridge Greenway. Along with the normal speed cushions and stop sign adjustments … Continue reading
Latest segment of 7th Ave bike lane opens in Denny Triangle
The latest block of sidewalk-level one way protected bike lane has opened on 7th Ave in the Denny Triangle, which means that bike lane now runs southbound all the way from Bell Street to Pike Street downtown. There’s also a … Continue reading
West Seattle Greenway to bridge 35th and connect to the Junction this year
This month SDOT says they are starting work on an extension of the West Seattle Neighborhood Greenway, which will finally connect the current greenway in the south end of the neighborhood with Alaska Junction. Most notably, the project will bring … Continue reading