Tag: dexter
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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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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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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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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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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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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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