Tag: dexter

January 26, 2023

Friday: Critical Mass will ride to Dexter/Thomas to hold a vigil for Jaahnavi Kandula + Defunded safety project had been more than a decade in the making

Jaahnavi Kandula—a 23-year-old student from Adoni in the Andhra Pradesh state in India who was studying at the South Lake Union campus of Northeastern University—was walking across Dexter at Thomas Street in a marked crosswalk when a police officer driving an SPD SUV struck and killed her shortly after 8 p.m. Monday evening. Our condolences…
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tagged: critical mass, dexter, jaahnavi kandula, thomas
June 14, 2017

9th Ave bike lanes carve out a real transportation option in South Lake Union

People using the Westlake Bikeway can now, finally, get to and through South Lake Union via a mostly uninterrupted route of bike lanes. It’s not the most direct route, and the connection into downtown is still incomplete. But for an interim solution, wow, it’s a lot better. And as a video by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways’…
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tagged: 9th ave n, dexter, roy, sdot, south lake union, tim fliss, westlake cycle track
March 18, 2015

Alert: Dexter will be closed near Mercer all day Saturday and weekday nights

If you plan on biking on Dexter Saturday, give yourself some extra time and be ready for a detour. Workers will completely close Dexter between Aloha and Mercer starting 6 a.m. Saturday and lasting until 6 a.m. Sunday. The street will also be closed nightly from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Thursday until…
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tagged: 9th ave n, construction, dexter, sdot, westlake cycle track
December 15, 2014

Dexter will be closed overnight this week, will reopen with better bike lanes

Dexter Ave will be closed overnight Monday and Tuesday between Denny and Mercer so crews can repaint the street with a new complete streets design that includes wide parking-protected bike lanes and a center turn lane. Construction work is not totally finished on the street, though. While work is wrapping up near Harrison, it is…
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tagged: dexter, sdot, wsdot
November 19, 2014

Dexter closed Wednesday night, will reopen in morning with different detour

It’s probably best to just avoid the city center’s busiest bike street tonight. Both the Mercer and Alaskan Way Viaduct Projects will be closing parts of Dexter Ave in South Lake Union starting 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and ending 6 a.m. Thursday morning. The state’s closure will be so worksites near Harrison and Republican can switch…
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tagged: construction, deep bore tunnel, dexter, mercer, mercer mess, wsdot
October 7, 2014

One of too many

This story is a bit longer than a typical post on this site. Brandon reached out to me after Sher Kung died and said he wanted people to know what life is like for all those people who are critically injured but not killed in traffic collisions. You might see their counts tallied in a…
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tagged: brandon blake, dexter, injuries