Tag: lake washington blvd

April 26, 2021

City considering car-free(ish) Lake Washington Blvd all summer + More Keep Moving Streets updates and a survey

The city may close a three-mile section of Lake Washington Boulevard to most motor vehicles (people accessing homes and parking lots allowed) from Memorial Day to Labor Day. This would be like making every day Bicycle Sunday. You can support this idea by taking SDOT’s online survey before May 10. Seattle already has more than…
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tagged: alki, golden gardens, green lake, keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, parks and recreation, sdot
April 5, 2021

Lake Washington Blvd ‘Keep Moving Street’ returns Friday + Campaign seeks permanent design

Lake Washington Blvd is reopening to people walking and biking Friday as the city’s Keep Moving Street program returns. The street will remain mostly car-free between Mount Baker Beach and Genesee Park from April 9 through 18. Seattle has experimented with various versions of this Keep Moving Street for the past nine months, and they…
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tagged: keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, rainier valley greenways
February 8, 2021

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 south of Mount Baker Beach will open to people walking, biking, and rolling starting this…
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tagged: keep moving streets, lake washington blvd
December 16, 2020

Segment of Lake Washington Blvd To Reopen December 18-January 4

SDOT has just announced that it will be closing a small segment of Lake Washington Boulevard between Mount Baker Beach and Stan Sayres Boat Launch (at 45th Ave S) starting this Friday December 18 and running through Sunday January 4. This is the same segment of Lake Washington that was closed over Thanksgiving weekend, and…
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tagged: keep moving streets, lake washington blvd
August 5, 2020

SDOT installs concrete blocks to improve safety on car-light Lake Washington Blvd

Ecology block installation today on Lake Washington Blvd pic.twitter.com/nfLtTbvnQZ — Dongho Chang (@dongho_chang) August 5, 2020 SDOT has finally installed the concrete “ecology blocks” the department had initially planned as part of their efforts to deter driving on the people-focused Lake Washington Blvd Keep Moving Street. As we reported last week, the eco blocks are…
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tagged: keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, sdot
July 30, 2020

People are driving on ‘closed’ street because SDOT used barriers to build a wall at police precinct instead

When the Seattle Department of Transportation announced their plan to turn a section of Lake Washington Blvd in south Seattle into a car-light “Keep Moving Street,” a July 21 department blog post noted that they would use heavy cement “eco blocks” at many intersections along with signage to inform people driving that the road is…
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tagged: defund seattle police, keep moving streets, lake washington blvd, sdot