Tag: belltown

August 23, 2023

New and upgraded Elliott Bay Trail will be privately funded

A group of philanthropists will fully fund a $45 million set of upgrades to the downtown waterfront north of Pier 62, where the existing under-construction Waterfront Park project ends. The Elliott Bay Connections project includes cove and park improvements in Centennial and Myrtle Edwards Parks as well as a new walking and biking trail along…
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tagged: alaskan way, belltown, centennial park, diller-von furestenburg family foundation, elliott bay connections, expedia, mackenzie scott, melinda french gates, myrtle edwards park, waterfront, waterfront seattle
May 12, 2023

A traffic jam on Seattle’s new Belltown Neighborhood Highway

It is the year 2023, and Seattle just opened a new highway through the dense and walkable Belltown neighborhood. For five years, there was no connection between Alaskan Way on the waterfront and Western Ave in Belltown, and traffic was working about at well as it ever does. But this month, Seattle opened a new…
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tagged: belltown, videos, waterfront seattle, western ave
April 19, 2023

Watch: We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them this way?

Seattle’s recent Vision Zero review noted that 80% of people killed while walking on Seattle streets are killed on streets with multiple lanes in the same direction. So why are we on the verge of opening a brand new streets through Belltown near Pike Place Market with multiple lanes in the same direction? I ride…
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tagged: belltown, pike place market, sdot, videos, vision zero, waterfront, western ave, wsdot
December 6, 2022

Packer: The public won’t build a new surface parking lot near Pike Place Market after all

Ryan Packer has some wonderful news: Seattle City Light will not build its planned surface parking lot at Western Ave and Blanchard Street after all. Word of the proposed parking lot, located within the Western Ave business strip that extends north from Pike Place Market, was a huge disappointment after a public process revealed a…
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tagged: belltown, blanchard st, parking lots, ryan packer, seattle city light, the urbanist, western ave
February 8, 2022

Test riding Seattle’s new bike lanes to Lower Queen Anne/Uptown

There’s finally a bike lane from downtown to the Lower Queen Anne/Uptown business district. Over the weekend, crews constructed a two-way bike lane on Broad Street between the existing bike lane on 2nd Avenue to 1st Avenue, then on 1st from Broad to Denny Way. Though just a few blocks long, the new lanes make…
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tagged: 1st ave, 2nd ave, belltown, broad st, lower queen anne, uptown
February 4, 2022

SDOT starts work on bike connection from Belltown to Lower Queen Anne/Uptown

There’s a good chance you missed the news about this one because, well, let’s just look at the timestamp … oh no. As part of the Climate Pledge Arena transportation plan, SDOT closed a short section of the 2nd Ave bike lane to create an additional lane for cars leaving the arena parking garage. Because…
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tagged: 1st ave, 2nd ave, belltown, broad st, climate pledge arena, lower queen anne, sdot, seattle center, uptown